Before I switched over to RAID 0, I began noticing the "noise" during rare occurances and it was nothing that really bothered me because it was honestly maybe once a month that I noticed it and I could never purposefully reproduce the problem. When I added a second HDD and switched over to RAID...
The PCI latency that I adjusted was in the BIOS for the ASUS board. It appeared to just apply to the entire bus. Other than that, I can't find any other adjustments in the BIOS or software-based solutions.
Changing the PCI latency didn't work :(. It was set stock at 64, and I tried lowering it to 32 and upping it to 128 and higher with no success or really any relative change. I did however yank out the Audigy 2 and tried my on-board system which seems to work, except the quality isn't all that...
Larry, that was the most helpful post I've read in weeks. I haven't solved the problem (actually at the 'rents house for the night) but I think you may be on to something with the power theory believe it or not. The reason why I don't think it's the Audigy card is because of the dropped frames...
I wish it was software related. I tried iTunes, Winamp, and Windows Media player. Thing is though that it's not just MP3's- any sounds (even the classic windows "DING") that are played during the heavy disk access is effected :(.
I have a very odd problem that I'm practically tearing my hair out over. Whenever there is heavy disk access (such as a huge file transfer or defrag) on ANY of my drives, OR I'm doing something resource intensive such as editing/capturing video in Premiere Pro, I get very odd...
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