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Audio skips while playing CD on iWill KT133A w/ 900MHz AMD.

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bupkus

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Experiencing audio skips while playing CD on iWill KT133A w/ 900MHz AMD. It's like the processor can't keep up.

I'm using an older Sony CD drive in a box with 256MB SDR running Window XP Professional. I checked and there was no audio cable, so I installed one but it didn't make any difference.

Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device was checked so I unchecked it to make sure it wasn't bypassing the cable. Even without the cable and digital audio disabled the Sony played the CD the same way... bad.

Is there some way I can disable the audio cable bypass? IOWs, really disable digital audio for CDs.

I put the SONY drive in another machine with Windows 98 and on that one the the drive plays just fine but only with the cable. Without it they is no sound from the CD. Atleast with this pc running Windows 98 I know it's using the audio cable. That tells me that it's not the CD drive, it must be something else.

I wish I could disable the digital CD audio in Windows XP. Although it does have that Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device, unchecking it does not prevent this Sony from playing with or without the audio cable.
 
Is DMA enabled for the drive? Do you have the latest sound drivers installed for your card? Also, try plugging headphones directly to the cdrom drive, do you hear skipping there?
 
ive found that 256 megs of ram or less on xp makes it run like crap. have you disabled some startup services that could be hogging memory or accessing the cpu that would cause it to skip? check that out and see if that could be an issue. xp defaults to have a crapload of services starting on boot, it might just be bogging your system down perhaps....
 
You want to get the latest Hyperion chipset drivers either from Iwill or viatech.com . And check for separate IRQ sharing updates for that at both Iwill and Via. Maybe install the latest available BIOS and go into the BIOS setup and make it reset ESCD values.
Also get the latest audio drivers for your specific mobo - from either Iwill or the Audio PHY chip maker (Realtek, etc.). Uninstall the OLD (use any special cleaner tool or method offered as it's hard to full uninstall audio drivers), reboot and install the new.
. Good luck.
.bh.
 
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