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January 10th, 2007 02:00
M1210 Sigmatel (Driver?) Problem
After a recent format of my M1210, I seem to have a problem with my sound card.
It's the Sigmatel
I installed the latest drivers from support.dell.com, and I get sound in windows fine.
It's when I try to play a game (Counter-Strike) where sound begins cause problems.
The sound is all choppy and skips, which also causes the video to chop and skip.
Most of the time, if left on for long enough, I'd get a blue screen stating:
TRAP_CAUSE_UNKNOWN.
I think I verified that it was a sound driver problem, because when I uninstalled it and ran counterstrike (my test program for now), the whole game ran smooth and I wouldn't get an error.
I have no idea what the problem is, because everything was running fine just 2 weeks ago.
Anyone have any idea as to what might be happening? I have no clue.
It's the Sigmatel
I installed the latest drivers from support.dell.com, and I get sound in windows fine.
It's when I try to play a game (Counter-Strike) where sound begins cause problems.
The sound is all choppy and skips, which also causes the video to chop and skip.
Most of the time, if left on for long enough, I'd get a blue screen stating:
TRAP_CAUSE_UNKNOWN.
I think I verified that it was a sound driver problem, because when I uninstalled it and ran counterstrike (my test program for now), the whole game ran smooth and I wouldn't get an error.
I have no idea what the problem is, because everything was running fine just 2 weeks ago.
Anyone have any idea as to what might be happening? I have no clue.
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Romzy
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January 13th, 2007 11:00
darkz
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January 20th, 2007 21:00
First, I followed Romzy's suggestion, deleted all the windows update and then installed the ones up until since it last worked fine (november 2006 with autopatcher)
That didn't seem to solve the problem and nothing did, so I gave up on it.
A friend of mine decided that one day he'd actually like to have a webcam conversation with me while I was in class. We started it, and MSN told me that I hadn't set up the webcam and mic, so I proceeded. That was when it happened: I got the TRAP_CAUSE_UNKNOWN error again.
With a new lead, I got home and uninstalled everything that had to do with the webcam: drivers and software. Sure enough, it worked! I started up Counter Strike and there wasn't any of the jittery sounds or anything of the sort, it was back to normal!
I did some more research and found out that it was a problem with the Mic on the webcam. Perhaps it was picking up sound whenever I started up Counterstrike and with every sound it picked up, it caused the sound in the game to jitter, and if bad enough, BSOD.
I didn't see it before, but stumbled upon the "Other Versions" link of the Logitech Integrated Camera driver and downloaded the A01 version.
Long story short, everything works again with the A01 driver from dell! Hopefully this will help anyone else encounters this problem
Romzy
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January 21st, 2007 10:00
Fabioxxxx
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May 30th, 2011 13:00
the forum admin should , combine all questions about this, and dell should create a faq in the m1210 page for this problem...
i read a ton of posts before i found this one. thanks guys.
Release Date: 6/9/2006
Version: 9.6.0.1180, A01
<ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
direct link
ftp.us.dell.com/.../R125887.EXE