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kernel streaming

1. when computer was restarted when foobar is playing on restart i get scandisk running 

2. creative sblive 5.1 with .323 drivers i hear only the front speakers playing. with .252 drivers i have all 4 speakers playing. 

os:windows xp sp1

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Reply #1 –
probably sb drivers at fault. for sb cards, maybe you should switch to DS output instead.

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Reply #2 –
That's a matter of personal taste of course, but maybe you might want to switch to a 32-bit OS ;-)
This shall solve your scandisk problems.

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Reply #3 –
he mentioned he's using winxp-sp1, but obviously isn't using NTFS as it's running scandisk. FAT32 is horrid, convert that sucker to NTFS and be much happier!

convert /?
convert c: /FS:NTFS

<edit> although I guess you should keep in mind (and perhaps you already know and this is why) that not all versions of windows can natively read/write NTFS, but if all you're using is winxp then by all means you should convert your drive(s)

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Reply #4 –
Nope, I've had chkdsk run for NTFS volumes. Of course, it was because of a previous run with a Radeon 9000 Pro plugged into my 440BX motherboard, guess it couldn't pipe enough wattage or voltage to the card... Randomly unresponsive input, random "Delayed write failed" errors, and the chkdsk if I happened to take the impatient way out and hit reset. Yes, I actually booted and tested around with and without the card several times.... Piece of crap. I know GF2 works with this chipset, and I hear GF3 and 4 work as well, so pfft.

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Reply #5 –
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2. creative sblive 5.1 with .323 drivers i hear only the front speakers playing. with .252 drivers i have all 4 speakers playing.  

os:windows xp sp1

Enable CMSS in EAX console. It will upmix the sound to more speakers.

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Reply #6 –
I've never chkdsk run automatically for me on any of my machines after having to hit the reset button many times, must've been some pretty harsh problems.  The way NTFS does things compared to FAT32 it should be pretty rare to have to ever run chkdsk, and even more rare for it to run on its own like scandisk does with fat32 drives after a crash, which is pretty much every single time.  At least that's been my experience.

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Reply #7 –
chkdsk never runs automatically for me except when i logoff/restart my computer when foobar is runnin in kernel streaming mode. and i prefer the fat32 mode as i hear its much faster than ntfs. My tv software dscaler also uses the kernel and when i log off with my tv on i dont get any scandisk/chkdsk runnin.
 

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Reply #8 –
I've also had a rare crash where it performed no FAT32 scans. Depends on what was happening to the partition. In this case, a lot of failed writes to my root partition, to places such as %USERPROFILE% and %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\config. Situation squared away whenever I removed that video card, so back to the store with it.

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Reply #9 –
fat32 is slightly faster, though probably not noticably, and the gains you get from ntfs just make it more than worthwhile to use it.  it's much safer as it does some journaling, has more security options (good even just in regular home use, since you can stop Johnny from accessing your files, etc), selective compression if that's your bag, and if you deal with any large amount of audio and especially video data you won't have to worry about fat32's 2GB filesize limit, no 32GB partition size limit (ok, that one's bypassable if you don't use winxp to create the partition) and 4KB clusters with pretty much any size of partition, rather than the 32KB clusters you'll get with fat32 and partitions over 16GB.

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Reply #10 –
I've heard that converting a FAT32 drive to NTFS isn't as good, or has some drawbacks, as formatting the drive in NTFS in the first place.  What's the difference?

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Reply #11 –
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
I think that NTFS is much better finally altho it's not so fast with smaller volumes.

EDIT: changed that link

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Reply #12 –
I actually meant the difference between converting to NTFS from FAT32 and formatting as NTFS from the get-go.  Thanks for the link, though. 

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Reply #13 –
there is only one drawback I can think of, and it doesn't happen in many cases, and that is sometimes you get 512byte clusters after converting instead of 4KB.  I'm picking my brain as to when the 512byte cluster thing happens, I'll post again when I remember or find it.  Other than that there's nothing wrong with converting, and I wouldn't even call that situation something 'wrong' exactly.