[LAU] delta 1010 background hiss

[Martin Peach]

Folderol wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:26:13 -0500
> Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> David Santamauro wrote:
>>> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:31:31 -0600
>>> Ectropic Harmony <ectropic.harmony at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm getting closer to testing my new Delta 1010.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any more reports of problems with the device?
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping there won't be. Hearing that some people get a "hiss"
>>>> noise is scary.
>>> I'll be tracking 2 angles tomorrow with my hiss problem: 1) put the
>>> card in another computer and; 2) failing (1), opening up the case and
>>> checking capacitors. I've been reading a bit this week about burned out
>>> capacitors.
>>>
>>> ... more tomorrow after I get my hands dirty.
>>>
>> I had the same problem with a Delta1010LT. It was running great on 
>> Ubuntu Studio with a VIA MiniITX board that died on me. I replaced the 
>> mobo with a Jetway VIA Nano and installed Debian amd64 and I got the 
>> notorious hiss.
>> So I took the card out and now it's running in a WinXP box with no 
>> issues. So it's definitely not the capacitors. I think the sound of dead 
>> capacitors would be more like AC hum.
> 
> The only time caps in a computer would give you ac hum problems would be
> if the main PSU ones were faulty, and then I think you'd quickly find
> all sorts of much more serious problems!
> 
> Also, it may not be *those* capacitors, but it could very well still be
> capacitor related.
> 

Well not on mine because it is right now running perfectly on XP, it 
just didn't work on that particular Jetway VIA nano mobo and that 
particular distro. And before that it _did_ work well on another VIA 
board with UbuntuStudio.

Martin