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Audio card locks up computer...
tomstickland
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A few times recently the sound card has locked up the computer, stuttering on a single sound sample. It's a Dell Desktop with a built in Sigmatel sound card.
This caused windows to fail to start properly.
Something to do with
vct3216.acm
I've googled this and it's something to do with "Voxware Compression Toolkit".
I've got the latest drivers running.
I've temporarily renamed the problem file to see if anything complains about it.
I don't really know enough about all of this. Is the card OK? Is the problem a codec thing? Can I bin it?
This caused windows to fail to start properly.
Something to do with
vct3216.acm
I've googled this and it's something to do with "Voxware Compression Toolkit".
I've got the latest drivers running.
I've temporarily renamed the problem file to see if anything complains about it.
I don't really know enough about all of this. Is the card OK? Is the problem a codec thing? Can I bin it?
Happy chappy
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Are you sure you've got the latest drivers? Dell aren't very good with this sort of thing.
By the way: if the 'card' is part of the motherboard you can't remove it. Fortunately, you can disable it quite easily.0 -
I had a look round and it appears that I do have the latest driver. I'll try your link though.Happy chappy0
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Have you installed any codec packs recently?0
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