noise conflict with playing MP3s and using scrollbar

[GaryGnu]

I get this really annoying chirpy sound when I use a scrollbar in a window (particularily Netscape window) while I am playing MP3s. I have tried about 20 different things. Nothing has an effect.

Windows 98
266 Pentium
Netscape 4.72
Napster, MusicMatch, a dozen MP3 players...:disgust:

 

[CantonMan]

The computer is just too slow.
It happened to me on my 200MMX, but not when I upgraded to my 300A->450...

 

[knutp]

I believe this has to do with a pci audio card! But since you do have 266 mhz you should have a agp port...

 

[GaryGnu]

I do have an ensoniq audio pci soundcard. I upgraded the driver since I first posted this message. If anything, it has gotten worse. What is an AGP port?

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks.

 

[jasonlee123]

AGP port is an "advanced graphics port". Basically its just an upgrade from pci slots for your video card. An agp port takes advantage of the FSB and doesnt share system resources. There are 3 types I believe; agp, 2xagp, 4xagp, 4x being the fastest. How much RAM do you have? A slow computer with little RAM can cause noises.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I notice this trend as well on my C633@950. Strange this is, I have a dual display system. Scrolling on the second display does not stutter the audio playback. Scrolling on the prinmary display does.

I started a imilar thread a few months ago and some folks determined that it was DirectX (which is limited to the primary display). Others say it was IE's smart scrolling (monitor CPU % use and scroll rapidly ... % usage can reach 90% with IE alone). Taking both possibilities into consideration, my system still exists this behavior.

Same thing happens with IE5 Radio and scrolling, so I'm thinking that all audio is affected.

-SUO

 

[jasonlee123]

I recommend a prog called rambooster v1.6. Its free and its pretty handy. You can monitor your cpu and your ram usage. You can free up ram and it has an alert too. Here is the link to d-load it.

 

[Kogan]

I used to have that same problem. I had an ensonic pci soundcard and some ATI pci video card. I think it was on my old celeron 400a system..

But anyway.. It had something to do with the PCI bus being overloaded. When I replaced the video with an AGP, it fixed the problem.

 

[GaryGnu]

I have 64 MB of RAM. Is there anything I can upgrade to get rid of this problem? I have already upgraded the soundcard driver. How do I know if I have an AGP port?

 

[GaryGnu]

I updated the video driver and the problem is almost completely gone. Thanks for your help.

 

[Tsaico]

My roomate had the same problem before and it turned out the drivers for his scroll mouse were outdated. He got the latest drivers for that and all went well...

 

[TumBO]

It's usually something to do with the video card if things are slowing down while moving anything on the screen.