A
Al Thompson
I recently installed XP Pro on a second drive because after 8 months
the original install has started to blue screen me too often. I
wanted my 120 gb drive (originally C, now D) to be devoted to video
files so the new install went to the 80 gb. I also made a
master/slave switch to be able to boot from both drives until all my
software was installed.
The install went perfect (wow, first time ever) and then I noticed
after spending all day installing software that there is stuttering in
the audio. It's either a dropout, or a digital stutter. It only
lasts a fraction of a second. It's more pronounced when other
software is in use. I even hear it when windows boots and plays the
intro music. Wave files or MP3's... same thing. Windows media player
or Winamp... same thing. If I play a 3 minute MP3, at some point it
will stutter at least once. And now after loading a few games, they
are crashing.
I currently use the onboard Creative audio (ct5880) chip. It never
had any kind of problem with the previous XP pro install and when I
switch back over to that drive, the audio problem isn't present.
I removed and reinstalled the drivers for the onboard audio with no
improvement. I searched the web for different drivers and nothing
worked any better than the drivers on the Windows disk.
I also tried installing a Diamond Monster PCI sound card and it does
the same thing. This then leads me to believe it's not a sound card
or chip problem but something upstream. I've spent a couple of days
now trying to run this down but no luck.
Can anyone help? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much.
Al
the original install has started to blue screen me too often. I
wanted my 120 gb drive (originally C, now D) to be devoted to video
files so the new install went to the 80 gb. I also made a
master/slave switch to be able to boot from both drives until all my
software was installed.
The install went perfect (wow, first time ever) and then I noticed
after spending all day installing software that there is stuttering in
the audio. It's either a dropout, or a digital stutter. It only
lasts a fraction of a second. It's more pronounced when other
software is in use. I even hear it when windows boots and plays the
intro music. Wave files or MP3's... same thing. Windows media player
or Winamp... same thing. If I play a 3 minute MP3, at some point it
will stutter at least once. And now after loading a few games, they
are crashing.
I currently use the onboard Creative audio (ct5880) chip. It never
had any kind of problem with the previous XP pro install and when I
switch back over to that drive, the audio problem isn't present.
I removed and reinstalled the drivers for the onboard audio with no
improvement. I searched the web for different drivers and nothing
worked any better than the drivers on the Windows disk.
I also tried installing a Diamond Monster PCI sound card and it does
the same thing. This then leads me to believe it's not a sound card
or chip problem but something upstream. I've spent a couple of days
now trying to run this down but no luck.
Can anyone help? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much.
Al