[mad-user] 24bit Output in WinXP on a MX300

[Hitesh Patel]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:57:35 +1000, you wrote:

>Has anybody gotten this combo to work?
>
>I ask because 24bit output works for MX300 (and I assume all Aureal cards),
>under WinME.
>
>Any help would be great
>Thanks,
>
>Geoff

I know it doesn't work with XP  with the AudioPhile 2496.

Which leads me to a question. What exactly is  it that is preventing
me from having 24bit output? Is it the Winamp output plugin, or is it
the OS (XP now and W2K before that), or is it the M-Audio drivers?

I have tried just about everything, including:

Disabling ACPI so that Win2K would let me assign IRQs manually, 

which led to

Reformatting and installing WIN2K

As a result the 2496 has its own IRQ of 9. No more shared IRQs.

I tried the Win NT drivers for the 2496. I set the max blocksize to
16k and the min blocksize to 4k. This results in 24 bit output working
but with a horrible static/buzz that drowns out the actual music, no
matter what settings I try.

What else should I do? I would love ANY suggestions. 

Regards,

Hitesh Patel.