Annoying Music Stuttering Problem

[BloomerzUK]

Hi,

Latey my music has been stuttering alot. This happens when I open a new page in Firefox or in Explorer browsing through files, or even opening programs files. It has a slight pause and a crackle'ish sound to it. Very annoying.

This was normally stopped by a restart of the system, and all is dandy.

But lately it hasn't stopped it; it keeps doing it, straight from bootup.

Before this it was fine.

Things I've done:

* Formatted and Installed Server 2008 x64 (put it in 'Vista' Mode using guides) and install all drivers (Audio, GFX and Chipset/Motherboard), was previous Vista Ultimate x64

* Uninstalled Audio Driver and re-installed it

* My CPU is OC'd to 2.6 GHz from 1.8GHz (Intel C2D E4300), and I've downclocked it, abit.. should I put it back to stock? (It was working for ages fine before this)

Is there anything else I can try. I've Google'd and most people say it's a RAID Problem, but I've haven't got RAID. Another person on another forum had the same problem; he changed the SATA Ports, could it be that?

My spec is:

* E4300 @ 2.6GHz

* Gigabyte P965-DS3 (rev 3.3)

* 4GB GeIL RAM PC6400

* Seagate 7200.9 200GB

* Western Digital 250GB

* MX Revolution Wireless Mouse (Mentioned this as sometimes I've heard this causes problems)

I am completely stumped.. so any input is appreciated .

Thanks in Advance,

Jake

 

[BloomerzUK]

I think it was the overclock. I reset the BIOS back to default and it seems to have cured it. I will report back if I get any change.

 

[PCTwin]

On my IP35 Pro, the more voltage I put thru the CPU the more background noise I got from the onboard audio. I dont get it with a sound card though.

 

[Lallespasser]

On my IP35 Pro, the more voltage I put thru the CPU the more background noise I got from the onboard audio. I dont get it with a sound card though.

This is why the good sound cards have shields. Any electricity cause a slight magnetic field, and these can influence each other. If a sound signal, which is also an electrical signal, is influenced by other magnetic fields, it will increase background noise or distort the sound.

Good sound cards such as Asus's Audigy or Creative's Titanium(what i'm using) have so called EMI shields. This stands for ElectroMagnetic Interference shields, and protects from just that. Of course, electromagnetic intereference is much less of a problem on any add-in sound card, since it is not placed on the motherboard's PCB, and thus much further away from sources of intereference.

 

[Rastalovich]

I'd feel PCTwin's onboard sound issue with cpu voltage is more due to the onboard, or surrounding components, taking a feed off the cpu rail. More often than not, a mere fsb increase beyond what it's obviously designed for, can cause it.

His soundcard would work ok, even the quality ones tend not to put a shield around them - which in my view is wrong, especially when they're butted up close to high-end graphic cards.

Got an em listening device as many would have picked up from a previous mysterious thread.

 

[BloomerzUK]

I may get a soundcard and overclock again, as I did see some FPS gain in games..