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Windows XP Issue (or hardware?)

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Ardan

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If you look at my system rig, the one labeled 'Ardan', you can see my specs. The PC is fast, not slow at all and that HD in there is new and reallly improved this issue. However it still happens sometimes, but I don't notice it in games (to my knowledge it doesn't occur). What happens is if I play a DVD movie or The Two Towers rip on my CDRW or DVD-ROM, sometimes there will be a noticable skip and it affects the video as well. It isn't small at all, it is big and very annoying and it popped up about 2 months ago as well. It used to do that when playing mp3's but I haven't really noticed it since buying the new HD, but I think it has happened before. Now that I think of it, I have sound issues in BF1942...they are miscellaneous noises like sometimes they are pops. This never ever occurred in BF1942 until a month ago or so...I also have the hardware acceleration thing enabled in the game and I don't notice any slowdowns when playing the game. I am under the impression that it is the SB Audigy and perhaps it is just winding down as a useful card (for whatever reason it may be)...anyone confirm this? It occurred with the old HD as well. I think the Audigy is now the oldest thing in that system, aside from the TDK VeloCD (12x10x32).
 
Looks like you are optimized for gaming - DVD movies like lots of video memory. I would try a 128 MB ATI card in the AGP slot and see if the problem goes away.
 
I play DVD movies on a laptop with 32megs of ram fine, a dvd needs a very minimal vid card, as long as you have a decent processor. I don't think your sound issue is because you "only" have a 64 meg video card, getting a 128meg ATI video card will not solve your DVD problem. have you done a clean install recently? I just had my IDE drivers corrupt in winxp for some reason, and was getting lots of sound problems before that. Fortunately I had a hard drive in my machien taht still had xp installed on it so I started booting off that again.

edit: you could try replacing the sound card, it might be having issues. the audigy is still a good card though, it's not that old.
 
Well I just wanted an opinion but I am banking on it being the Audigy. I had this issue when I was using a GF2 Pro (32 or 64Mb...I can't remember how big it was) and my old HD, a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus. When I got this new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 HD, I wiped my partitions out and installed everything from scratch and it persisted occaisonally immediately after everything was installed. Granted, it doesn't happen much anymore...but it does occaisonally. Oh yea, and I don't know if I specified but I have a 128Mb GF4 Ti4200 (you see in my Specs page) and I immediately ruled out the purchase of a 128Mb ATI card. Buying a new video card, as the last person said, won't solve the issue. Some time I might get a new sound card to see, but not right now. It is not that big of an issue that I have to go out and buy a new sound card. I am decided on the Fortissimo III 7.1 or the Audigy2 for when I do in the summer. Perhaps the Audigy is simply going bad, or the drivers could be just that terrible.

I will reinstall the IDE drivers to see what that does though...however I don't think anything is having issues.
 
Originally posted by: corky-g
Looks like you are optimized for gaming - DVD movies like lots of video memory. I would try a 128 MB ATI card in the AGP slot and see if the problem goes away.
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Definitely don't dish out the money for a new video card because of a DVD movie...

The issue lies somewhere else, the IDE drivers is a good start, does your motherboard support on board? If so, pop out that Audigy and try the on board..

Good Luck
 
I am actually going to get new IDE cables when I buy a new 19" CRT off of newegg soon, because I think it might be the IDE cables. I had an issue with them being too short but I managed to get them in there, so I will start with that. It isn't too big of an issue though. Yes, you're right I would DEFINITELY not shell out MORE money for something that doesn't solve the problem at hand...it is either an Audigy issue or an IDE issue...not a video issue. My system can handle DVDs just fine lol (just look at system specs).

Edit: for those that might actually click to see the specs, the one with the issue is named 'Lorcan' (but you can figure it out anyways)
 
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