[i.God]

SoundMAX annoying issue! Help!

My motherboard is ASUS M2NPV-VM and the onboard sound driver is SoundMAX (version: 5.10.1.6110 1/16/2007) The problem is that the sound skips whenever a FMV or a cinematic is playing in a computer game. So the video will play fine, but the audio will skip and be out of sync.

This only happens when there are FMVs or cinematics in a computer game. Some examples would be Emperor: Battle For Dune, Splinter Cell, Medieval II: Total war.

My specs:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ (2.3 GHz)
1 Gig Ram
3D Fuzion Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT

I tried updating and rerolling the SoundMax drivers, but it still happens! Is it possible to change my onboard sound? Please offer any solutions to try to fix this problem.

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You can't change the on-board sound chip but you can disable it in the BIOS settings and fit your own choice of sound-card in a spare PCI slot.
However, doing that would only resolve the problem if it is caused by your existing sound-chip and/or it's driver. If it's caused by something else you may find you've bought a new sound-card only to have the same problem as before. It's your call.

[pip22]

You can't change the on-board sound chip but you can disable it in the BIOS settings and fit your own choice of sound-card in a spare PCI slot.
However, doing that would only resolve the problem if it is caused by your existing sound-chip and/or it's driver. If it's caused by something else you may find you've bought a new sound-card only to have the same problem as before. It's your call.

[Tyger]

One of the recent Windows updates affected Sound Max drivers. They have since issued a fix. You may want to check your updates.