Sound problems with Gigabyte motherboard

[citznfish]

Hello! (first post)

I was hoping someone could give me a little direction on an issue I am having with my new PC.

I built this machine about 2 weeks ago using a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard running an Intel Duo Core e6600 CPU and 2 gigs of corsair RAM. I am using Gigabytes onboard audio. I have installed the latest Bios and audio drivers from Gigabyte.

What happens is that I'll start to play some MP3's and each MP3 will play fine for a few seconds then teh audio will slow down for 2 seconds, then go back to the regular speed. It does this in Media Player 10 as well as Winamp.

My friend has an older machine running a gigabyte MB and a e6400 chip (I think) and he has the same issues! He even installed a PCI sound card and that didn't resolve teh issue.

We are both running Windows XP pro corp. He tried installing Vista and it didn't alleviate the issue either.

Is there any way to fix this? It's driving me to insanity!

Thank you.

-CF

 

[citznfish]

additionally it also seems to do the same thing for video. It can't just be me and my friend having the same issues. Anyone have anyexperience with this problem?

 

[cprince]

Is your hard drive constantly running? It sounds like the hard drive is not fetching fast enough.

 

[citznfish]

i don't know if it's constantly running. It probably isn't. It's a brand new HITACHI Deskstar T7K500 HDT725032VLA360 (0A33435) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM in a new system with a fresh OS install.

How can I test this to see if that is the problem?


Maybe I didn't load an SATA driver or something? The last time I built a PC it was still IDE cables... 🙂

I did install all teh drivers that came with the motherboard. 😀unno: