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mp3s skip with my HD running off of my promise IDE controller

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novowel

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one of my drives crashed, so instead of running xp off of that drive, i threw it out and installed xp on a new partition on my WD HD running off of my promise ide controller. the problem is, not sure if lies in the drive...or something i did wrong..but, when i play mp3s they skip. any ideas why? 🙁
 
Originally posted by: novowel
one of my drives crashed, so instead of running xp off of that drive, i threw it out
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uh...you threw the drive away....?
and installed xp on a new partition on my WD HD running off of my promise ide controller. the problem is, not sure if lies in the drive...or something i did wrong..but, when i play mp3s they skip. any ideas why? 🙁
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is this audio device a Creative card..? Need more info on your setup/build ..tia 🙂
 
ahh, well not crashed...but it failed. numerous times. i've been having random data loss, and on bootup, i got a bios error: "SLAVE DRIVE FAILURE" dont think thats good ;p

the card is a creative live! series card...not sure which though, i can check but i'd have to pull it. i saw my IDE controller and soundcard were on the same IRQ...so i swapped some things around. st ill has that problem. i'm using the XP drivers, not usre if they are out of date...or if it'd help
 
Originally posted by: novowel
ahh, well not crashed...but it failed. numerous times. i've been having random data loss, and on bootup, i got a bios error: "SLAVE DRIVE FAILURE" dont think thats good ;p

the card is a creative live! series card...not sure which though, i can check but i'd have to pull it. i saw my IDE controller and soundcard were on the same IRQ...so i swapped some things around. st ill has that problem. i'm using the XP drivers, not usre if they are out of date...or if it'd help
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wow...multi problems...on the hd...grab the manufacturer's drive checking utility and read(printout would be good..😉 ) about using it before running it....what mobo..? does it have onboard audio..is it disabled in the BIOS..? I usually let XP handle IRQs as it will try to dump most on 11 ..there is a switch on a fresh install of XP ..I believe to allow manual on IRQs ..google is your friend there..... good luck 🙂 <edit> typos...😛
 
wow...multi problems...on the hd...grab the manufacturer's drive checking utility and read(printout would be good.. ) about using it before running it....what mobo..? does it have onboard audio..is it disabled in the BIOS..? I usually let XP handle IRQs as it will try to dump most on 11 ..there is a switch on a fresh install of XP ..I believe to allow manual on IRQs ..google is your friend there..... good luck
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the HD is pretty old, 2 yrs or so? some maxtor drive. the mobo is a kr7a-raid. has onboard audio..i've never disabled it before OR had any problems with the mp3s skipping. i let xp handle the IRQs. still no luck :/
 
it seems that my harddrive may be the problem?

i ran speed disk last night, and one of my drives (20gb) is still optimizing..what could be teh cause of something like that?

a slow drive?
 
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