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Sound skips

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sswingle

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Every so often listening to MP3s my sound kinda lags. It never used to do this, and it happens with all files, not just specific ones. Also is happening to movie files.

I have a AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 512 MB DDR, Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum.

I am at a loss, when it first started happining, I figured it was because I hadn't restarted in 15 days, but its still doing it after restarting. I haven't changed any hardware, or installed any new programs. I thought maybe it was because my 120 GB hard drive only has 5 GB free, but mp3s are so small, I don't see how that would cause them to lag.

I run Norton Antivirus 2003, keep it up to date, also run Spybot and keep all that junk off my system, so I am at a loss to explain this sound problem.


Edit: I'm using Windows media player 9
 
Sounds like a resource issue. Try moving the SB to a different PCI slot. What mobo do you have and what slot is the SB in now? Asus puts a nice little sharing table in their manuals. If it's an Asus, take a look at the manual and select a PCI slot that says "used" so it's not sharing an IRQ.
 
definately sounds like an irq conflict of some sort. i had this happen with an old sound blaster live value and a agp video card sharing the same irq and every time i would try to browse or game the sound would cut in and out.
 
I had a similar problem to the one you described. I was able to fix the problem by installing a
RAM defragmentation program (RAM Def) which I found on tucows.com. You might give that a
whirl.

alzan
 
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