Windows XP: Stuttering sound - I tried everything I know!
Stuttering sound - I tried everything I know!
by moespeeds - 12/28/04 8:17 PMI recently reformatted my HD, something I do every few years to get it cleaned off. Since doing this, I have "stuttering" sound when playing music or games. The problem only seems to be with playing music and seems to get worse if I'm doing other things like browsing, etc. I tried updating the drivers for my SB Live Value, removed the card completely and used the Asus onboard sound, installed all windows updates, turned hardware accel down for both sound and video, updated the ATI video drivers, disconnected the cable that goes from the sound card to the DVD-R as well as completely removing the DVD-R, changed around the speaker settings as well as the midi source. The onboard sound is disabled via bios, which I also updated. I have completely run out of ideas. I have a P4 1.6, Asus P4T, SB Live Value, ATI Radeon 8500, Pioneer DVD-R. Windows XP Home with all updates. Any ideas?
BTW...
by moespeeds - 12/28/04 8:38 PM In reply to: Stuttering sound - I tried everything I know! by moespeedsBTW, I have 768K RDRAM, no conflicts or problems in device manager.
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by viperone - 12/29/04 12:56 AM In reply to: Stuttering sound - I tried everything I know! by moespeedsHi !
I had same kind of problem with sound.
I installed a creative soundcard and encountered problems with playing anyother sound than systemsounds.
I narrowed it down to be somekind of conflict between the onboard soundcard/windowsmediaplayer/creative.
I "kind of fixed" it by disabling windows mediaplayer in all of its extend and only use creative´s player.
Later on i did a format for other reasons...and this time i only installed the driver for creative an had no problems since.
Some advice...dont install sounddriver´s from MS...go to the manufact. site´s and get them.
viper
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by moespeeds - 12/29/04 4:01 PM In reply to: Re. by viperoneThanks, but I tried completely removing the SB card and it's drivers, enabled the onboard sound and installed the drivers from Asus with no luck. That's what is driving me nuts, it doesn't seem to be a problem with the sound card itself. I run the system clean with MS Config, nothing runs in the backround, so I don't think it's a software conflict either.
More ideas...
by viperone - 12/29/04 4:17 PM In reply to: Re by moespeedsHi again !
More thoughts.....
Have you checked your tasklist for bad exe´s running...
Is the cpu up in the red field ?
I have seen worm´s come into a system on a re-install...
Also spy/mal ware can take so much energy out of a pc, that the sound dissapears....
Viper
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by moespeeds - 12/31/04 3:32 PM In reply to: More ideas... by viperoneNo bad exe's that I can see, the problem started right from the Windows install. Ran Spybot, Adaware, NAV. I've gotta check to see if the CPU is pegging, but I doubt it since I'm not having any other hangs or slowdowns. Nothing running in the backround. I'm going nuts trying to figure out what is diff on this setup then my old setup, I just can't get it.
Did you try 'the usual?
by R. Proffitt
- 12/31/04 4:20 PM
In reply to: Re by moespeeds
Set the IDE channels to PIO, OK then go back in and set to DMA. A bug in XP may show them as DMA, but they are not. Documented at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx
Bob
This is a little old but
by TONI H - 12/31/04 4:44 PM In reply to: Stuttering sound - I tried everything I know! by moespeedsSOUND BLASTER LIVE & VIA MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET PROBLEM:
Crackle on sound
THANKS TO DICK WHITE
If you're hearing crackling and the soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live and your motherboard has a VIA chipset, you probably have an incompatible issue that many people aren't aware of.
That combination has a known issue with static when a UDMA drive accesses. The underlying problem has to do with latency on the PCI bus, and there really isn't anything you can do to fix it, just unsatisfactory work arounds. The easiest ones are either disable DMA on the hard drive (the performance will suffer) or don't use the 4-channel environmental audio effects on the SBLive (but isn't that one of the reasons you got that card?).
Other solutions that have been tried with varying success are trying different video cards and moving cards around to different slots inside your system. BIOS changes that have been tried include disabling write-back caching, disabling prefetch buffering, and setting the BIOS latency timer to zero (the last one requires a BIOS tweaking utility).
The ultimate solution, however, is choke for a different soundcard, as there doesn't seem to be much communication between Creative/SB and VIA about how to resolve it. VIA has just announced a significant bug has been found in the chipset that could corrupt data on the hard drive in certain extreme situations, especially when there is a SBLive card in the system. They are going to release a patch to motherboard makers that will resolve it, and one of the fixes is supposed to be a change to PCI latency - which is the same problem which is causing the crackling.
So check at
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2
to see if that patch is there for your motherboard or check with your motherboard manufacturer site for it instead.
TONI
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by moespeeds - 1/9/05 11:20 AM In reply to: This is a little old but by TONI HThanks for the info, but I tried removing the SB live card from the system and using the onboard sound, same problem. Also, I do not have a via chipset, it's Intel (Asus P4T-M, specs at: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4T-M&langs=01 ) I do have a Maxtor PCI IDE 133 card. My next step is to remove that and see what happens. Thanks for all the advice so far.
Moe
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by bbguntx - 1/10/05 1:18 AM In reply to: Stuttering sound - I tried everything I know! by moespeedsI don't know if this will help, but a friend of mine was having problem with sound and ask me to look at it. He had disabled the onboard sound in the bios, but had not disabled the other part of the onboard sound. "trying to remember", but it was something to do audio controller. Not sure if memory is correct about the name, but I had to disable 2 different places in the bios to get it to work. Onboard card and controller disable both see if that helps.
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