After I upgraded my main system to an A7N8X DX motherboard and a nice Thermaltake case, I decided to repurpose my old system as a "Wintendo" - funky little box to play some older games that just plain don't run on XP anymore (Dark Forces, Duke Nukem, Blood, etc.) This "older" system is an Elite Group K7S5A motherboard with an Athlon 1600XP CPU, 512 Mb of PC2100 RAM, a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card, and a PCI Geforce4 Mx440 video card. That's right.. PCI... it was a card I had lying around from an old Pentium II system. Its running Windows 98, and most games and stuff runs just fine. What I find I am having trouble with is audio problems:
DVD Playback
Any sort of Compressed Video playback.
Now, the video is just fine. DVDs play back perfectly smoothly. The trouble is the sound. Very choppy.. like the crappy old film projectors some of the older of us might remember from school.... warbling... high frequency stuttering... sort of like you are listening to the sound through a fan. MIDI audio, Audio CD playback, sound effects in games are all just fine... its specifically to do with the combination of video and audio file playback.
My question is - could this be cause by PCI bus contention? I.E. with the system having to shovel both video and sound through a 133Mhz bus at the same time, the sound ends up losing? Aside from the amount of RAM, the kind of video card, and the operating system, this is the exact same system that used to play DVDs and compressed movies like a champ up to two weeks ago. Thoughts?
DVD Playback
Any sort of Compressed Video playback.
Now, the video is just fine. DVDs play back perfectly smoothly. The trouble is the sound. Very choppy.. like the crappy old film projectors some of the older of us might remember from school.... warbling... high frequency stuttering... sort of like you are listening to the sound through a fan. MIDI audio, Audio CD playback, sound effects in games are all just fine... its specifically to do with the combination of video and audio file playback.
My question is - could this be cause by PCI bus contention? I.E. with the system having to shovel both video and sound through a 133Mhz bus at the same time, the sound ends up losing? Aside from the amount of RAM, the kind of video card, and the operating system, this is the exact same system that used to play DVDs and compressed movies like a champ up to two weeks ago. Thoughts?