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help! mp3's skipping since new audigy was installed

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EdipisReks

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i just built the system in my rig, and mp3's were fine with my old ensoniq audio pci card, but as soon as i installed the audigy i got mp3 skips. it's not constant, but very irritating. i have the intel application accelerator and intel ultra storage driver. i had to turn the pci latency to 64 to fix the known audigy problem of pops in cd play back at pci latencies of 32. i haven't tried running without the driver, but i might later when i have more time. is the application accelerator automatic? i can't find any options with it.

on a possibly related note, sisoft sandra is telling me that my 7200 RPM hard drive is running at speeds close to a 5400 rpm drive, but the intel application accelerator shows everything to be normal, as far as i can tell. i've been using athlon systems for a while, so i'm kinda a n00b with intel. anyone have any possible solutions?

thanks!
--jacob
 
Your Northwood 2.4?

You need to install the Chipset Inf Drivers (unless you are using WinXP...they are optional), and then just the Intel Application Accelerators. Do not install the ATA Storage Drivers. The Application Accelerators are a new, improved version of the ATA Storage Drivers.

The Application Accelerators automatically enable DMA, and remove the Advanced Options tab from your IDE Controllers under the Device Manager.

There is no need to change the PCI latency on Intel Chipsets....in fact, you should not. That really only applies to VIA Chipset based systems.

Make sure that for the Audigy, you need to install the Drivers, AudioHQ and Surround Mixer from the CD as a minimum. Once you have installed those, get the updates from SoundBlaster.com. You must have the drivers installed from the CD first before you can install the latest drivers from the web.
 
What OS? Did you use the new drivers? IF you can't find them on the USA site the drivers from the Asia site work just fine. I can't believe you are relying in Sandra! That program is most horrible bench to use for HDD speed testing! What are you using to play the MP3's? WMP or Creative Player? Also, your stats on the "athlon box" you're using could help.
 
AndyHui, i'm running XP pro. i'll take the storage drivers off when i get off work and see if that helps. i think i have the latest audigy updates, but i still get popping on cd's with a default PCI latency. putting the PCI latency to 64 fixed that problem. i don't have the Audio HQ and the surround mixer installed, i only have the drivers. that might be my problem. i'll install those and then put the PCI latency back to 32 to see if the cd popping and the mp3 skips go away. the cd i got with the mother board wouldn't allow me to install the inf's, saying that they were not needed. is there a way to make the operating system install them? i'll update this thread once i get home in a few hours. like i said, i'm a newbie when it comes to current intel systems, so the info you gave me helps a lot.

AkumaBao: if you read my original post a little more closely you will see that i am referring to the p4 system that is in my sig and not my previous athlon systems. i'm not relying on sandra, but it backs up my suspicion that a HD driver install problem is causing some of these problems. the skipping seems to be related to winamp only, but it may skip with WMP too. like i said, the skipping is not constant, so it's hard to pin down when and on what programs it is having problems. i mostly use winamp, so the problems show up on that simply due to the amount of time winamp is running.

man, everyone says that intel systems are easy to setup, but my old via based systems were less confusing in some ways 😀. at least i knew what to expect (in other words, crap doesn't ruin your day when you know it's crap). i'm enjoying this system a lot, and it is SUPER stable. i can run prime95, sisofts burn in wizard and the 3dmark2001 demo simultaneously and indefinitely (well, at least for 10 hours, which is the longest i have had these running). my athlon/VIA systems could never last more than a couple hours with all three running, even at stock speeds.

thanks a lot!

--jacob
 
The Chipset Inf Drivers provided on your CD are probably an older version.

The latest version, can be obtained here, and can be installed in WinXP, but as I said above, are not needed.

You may want to think about installing the Intel Application Accelerators/ATA Storage Drivers, since again, these are not really needed in WinXP. I've found that they are not always trouble free under WinXP. The IAAs do best in Win2K, but since the Microsoft drivers in WinXP are nearly as aggressive in precaching and parallelism as the IAAs, there is not much of an improvement. Faster in some things and slower in others. I've found that to keep things simple in WinXP, don't install the IAA, until perhaps a later version.
 
AndyHui, you are the man. i did everything you told me, and it fixed EVERY problem. cd's don't pop, mp3's don't skip, and my hard drive benchmarks just like it should 😀. this is great! thanks a lot!!!

--jacob
 
I experience the same problems but have a via (asus a7v133) mb.
Should i install the Intel Application Accelerators also? running winxp
 
The ASUS A7V133 uses a VIA chipset.

You cannot install the Intel drivers for this board (there aren't any Intel components on this board, so how can you install their drivers?).
 
gizbug I would install the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers(4.38),also moving the Audigy to a different PCI slot may help.
 
I moved my SB from PCI slot 3 to PCI slot 5, and put on VIA 4.39beta drivers, still didn't solve the problem.
Any other suggestions?
 
I remember having that problem as well (A7V133)... fortunately (or unfortunately), my OS partition blew up on me... I did a reformat and clean install of WinXP Pro with the newest drivers for all my devices--no more Audigy weirdness. I did another clean install when I switched out mobos (to the Soyo K7V Dragon Plus) and stilll no problems.

I'm sure there's a less drastic fix, but if you have time to start from scratch...
 
I had this problem running .mp3s with my Audigy under WinXP with my VIA based Epox 8K3A as well (under Win98/Win2k - zero problems) . Not all the time, but often enough to be irritating. Move the Audigy over to my SiS735 based K75SA and the problem completely dissappeared.
 
if any of you are using winamp 2.79, try upgrading to 2.80.

2.79 had a buggy waveout that made my mp3s skip with my audigy during high cpu usage.

2.80 has been great. There was also a patch for 2.79, but 2.8 will do the trick.
 
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