$5 PAYPAL TO FIRST PERSON WHO SOLVES THIS PROBLEM

[predprey]

Go into the sound drivers..
Where it says joystick, switch from digtal to analog. I donno this sometimes causes problems for me when it is digital...

 

[SmirnoffIsTasty]

<< turn off "Smooth Scrolling" under the IE options, it's definately a graphics prob, I had a similar issue with my laptop (pentium3m-850, 512mb ram) under winxp. that fixed it for me. >>



SWEEEEEET. That worked!

 

[MoMeanMugs]

Hey, I said it first. I am in need of $5. 🙂

 

[ddeder]

I turned the smooth scrolling off and it did make a difference, but by no means did it solve the problem. The music still slows down and skips, just not quite as much. Those of you suggesting I try a separate sound card, please reread the post, I already tried that and it did not help. Installing a PCI video card did seem to help, but as I said in the original post, I need this problem solved without adding new hardware. Thanks for the research Justin, I will try using Winamp to see if it plays the midi files any better, but as I said in the original post, I need to get it working with Windows Media Player.

 

[WT]

Have you ruled out your antivirus software ? We use McAfee at work and there was a corrupted dat file that slowed certain tasks to a crawl on our work PC's. If you haven't tried it, either update your antivirus dats or disable it temporarily to see if that is affecting anything. It slows my P3/866 - 256 RAM PC when Winamp is playing and I open Corel or OE5. Hope you get it fixed soon 🙂

 

[ddeder]

Changing the Color Quality from Highest (32 bit) to Medium (16 bit) [Display Properties-->Settings] nearly eliminates the sound distortion while scrolling with internet explorer. The only real distortion now occurs only when I "grab" the scrollbar and yank it up and down. Funny, I can play midi files on lesser machines without any distortion, no matter what I do, yet this machine always has at least a little distortion. By the way, I replaced the 1GHz Duron with a 1.3GHz Duron and that made no difference whatsoever. I did build a machine last week though with the same motherboard and a 1.33GHz Athlon, and that machine played the midi file without any problems.

 

[AKA]

Have you tried to reduce the graphics acceleration or the sound acceleration or both? Either one of those will most likely fix your problem.

 

[Acanthus]

smack your customer in the head and give him is $700 back. There, no hardware changes and problem solved.

 

[JustinLerner]

<< Have you tried to reduce the graphics acceleration or the sound acceleration or both? Either one of those will most likely fix your problem. >>

Si, and reduce the number times per second when your mouse is updated (from 20-100/s).

 

[CplHicks]

Ugh, I've got this exact same problem when listening to mp3s. It doesn't matter what program I use to listen to them, IE6 makes them skip and pop. Something that I've yet to try that I think I will is to move my sound card to different PCI slots, sometimes this can help.