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SB Live! and Win2k

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xizor

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I've had 2 clean installs of Win2k Pro and found this problem both times. Whenever I'm playing mp3's in winamp, it'll make scratching sounds when scrolling in internet explorer or going through the start menu. These movements take very little processor speed, so I'm not sure why its messing up winamp.

I have a Athlon 1000, Abit KA7-100, 256 RAM, Geforce2 GTS. The SB Live is in the 4th PCI slot (counting starting at right most) and a NIC is in the 6th. I've tried moving the sblive and get the same problem. its really disturbing to have messed up music whenever i do something as simple as web browsing.

xizor
 
I remember having the same problems on my A7V. Then swap it to slot 2 or 3(forgot which slot) and the problem stop. Try switching and see what happens
 
I have a feeling thats its you VIA chipset. I cant get my MX300 workin for longet than 20 seconds. and MP3's would not play too. I dunno man
 
lotust the mx-300 has compatbility issues with kt-133 chipset's. Get rid of it. Xizor see if your card is sharing an irq. if it is move it to a different slot.
 
Having the same problem here with the card. it's not that bad though (considering I've just came from an mx300. I liked that card's hardware better, but drivers for 2k and linux both sucked). I am running on an Intel BX chipset though (soon to switch to Via though).
 
actually, i used to have this problem on an older machine (K62-300) with a sh*tty soundblaster awe64. the problem wasn't my processor, my ram, or my soundcard... it was the video drivers. they can't keep up with refreshing a window that you're resizing at the same time as the processor is trying to decode mp3. i updated my (i said this was an old system) matrox millenium card to the newest drivers available at that time, and the problem was gone.

you might also try to play with the winamp settings for decode thread priority and buffering...

-syf3r.
 
Its not your soundcard. Scrolling in IE takes alot of cpu usage. Open up your task manger and then scroll in IE and see for yourself.


Rain
 
Wow. Raincity's right. 90-100% cpu usage on my machine. Interesting to note that Mozilla "only" takes 55-70%. After some moore testing I'll say if the problem goes away when using Mozilla.
 
Problem did seem to go away for me by using another browser. BTW, I tried Netscape 4.76 and it only took around 15-20% cpu to scroll. I guess Microsoft's HTML render is (MUCH) more intensive. Personally I'm gonna switch to netscape just because of this.
 
probably because microsoft have the smooth scrolling feature. That seems to go very slow on some slower computers.
 
i have i have a dma hard drive and i found that winamp does the scratching when my hard drive is set in pio mode.
 
You have to set Winamps priority the the highest setting. Its hidden in the preferences... hit Ctrl+P (or maybe Alt) with Winamp open.
 
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