Sound and video card problem?

[Richard Hawkes]

I recently switched to W2k from Win 98. I updated the drivers for the sound and video cards from the company websites. However I get a terrible crackling sound whenever graphics are being manipulated and music is playing (everything worked perfectly under Win 98...)
Examples
With Winamp playing the sound distorts if I run the mouse over the Winamp interface. Also the sound will distort if a Flash animation is playing, even a low k banner add.
Without any music playing, all Flash animations with sound play with distorted sound unless I minimise the window.
With music playing, opening windows, the start bar etc starts to distort the sound.
A movie file's sound will distort in Win Media Player while maximising and restoring player window and opening other windows in the background. I can play a movie file at full screen without sound distortion eventually, but it takes a while to settle down.
Has anyone had similar problems and managed to solve them? If so any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
Specs:
W2k, 1GHz AMD chip, 256RAM, Creative Sound Blaster PCI card, GeForce 2 vid card

[Michael Morris]

Is the GeForce 2 vid card a genuine NVIDIA or a generic? Did you get one of those irritating "this driver isn't signed" warnings when you installed the new drivers? My guess would be a problem with the video card driver. Win2K is a lot pickier than 98 since there is no DOS kernel. Drivers are quite a bit more complicated.
[ June 04, 2003: Message edited by: Michael Morris ]

[Richard Hawkes]

Its an InnoVision card. I tried drivers from both Inno3D and NVIDIA websites plus let Windows update find one but neither solved the problem
I'll have to try something else after the weekend.
Thanks for the tips though.

[Richard Hawkes]

Problem solved by updating the BIOS.
Something to with buses and acpi's and sharing of irq's...? Didn't really get it but everything's hunkydory now