Serious clipping from motherboard soundcard

[chris661]

Hi all.

As the title says, I switched the computer on one day, and got a lot of clipping out of it. Prior to this, I'd kept the PC volume low, and used lots of stereo amps to make a 5.1, all set to similar volumes, then just adjust the PC volume.

I unplug the extra amps, get stereo and turn the PC up a bit. As soon as anything in the midrange got louder, you'd get a nasty clipping (think guitar amp with overdrive turned to 11), which was really off-putting.

It didn't matter which track I used, or where I put the volume control (it should to go 100% Ok, right?), I'd get this clipping. I checked all over the place for some gain that I hadn't accounted for, found none and put a soundcard in.

However, I'm still curious - any ideas as to why it decided to do that?

Chris

[JimJ]

Onboard sound

[Glowbug]

Now you know why add-on DACs are so popular

There's going to be a reply in here from "JimJ", that's me not realizing I wasn't on the right account

[chris661]

No worries.

Shame it suddenly died though...

Chris