CD player Choppy in XP and Abit MB

[vicdoc]

I cannot understand why my CD player is sometimes choppy with Win XP Home. It seems to happen in Windows media player, but not in Musicmatch jukebox.
I have an Abit mb, Duron 750 oc to 900. I am using an old AWE64 ISA sound card (3 years), and it does not help to manually assign an IRQ in bios to legacy hardware, nor did it help to flash the sound card bios. The latest AWE drivers are all old. I have disabled PNP OS in the bios. The CD audio is not selected for digital audio in device manager. Any ideas? I suppose I can just buy a PCI soundcard or avoid using WMP, but I just like things to work the way they are supposed to. Thanks.

 

[TunaBoo]

Try newer IDE drivers, your DMA mode may be off.

 

[RSMemphis]

Choppy audio can sometimes mean outdated drivers.

Do they still release new drivers for the AWE soundcards?

 

[vicdoc]

No new drivers for the Soundblaster AWE64 card since about 1999.
I got the Abit board just so I could recycle all my old stuff: soundcard, ram, harddrives, etc.
Computer has new case, mb, cpu and video card. I added ram too.
Windows XP update seemed to help a little, but WMP still sounds pretty bad. IDE drivers are the newest I can find for the Via chipset and XP. Well, I can avoid using WMP. The Musicmatch jukebox sounds better anyway. Thanks for help.

 

[AthlonMan]

Do you have the newest VIA service Pack, and did you try it when it is not overclocked.