Audio Play Back Stutter

[Freak]

Hi,

My audio has recently stated to stutter. Kind of like a cd skipping.

Physical memory in task manager is ram right? Well there is enough there for it to not be the computer being loaded.

I dont know what else it could be...

Hard drive?

 

[JN]

Where are you playing the Audio from? MP3/CD/Net?

It might be worth trying a different media player regardless to see if that makes a difference, or set up the Windows performance monitor to display disk/memory/cpu performance. See if anythign is wrong there.

 

[Freak]

hmm, not to sure on how to set it up. well I can set it up I just dont know what to look at. And what is meant to look normal.

 

[Sihastru]

What is the setting for PCI Latency Timer in BIOS?

 

[Freak]

dunno, I havent changed that.

 

[Rastalovich]

See if it stutters using VLC player.

 

[Freak]

I am now thinking that its the HDD. It has been making a lot of noise when searching ans opening.

Any recommendations.

Its 500gb.

 

[mrapoc]

I used to get that kinda problem with Windows media player with any kind of operation going on from installation to opening a program

Winamp removed this problem (and sounds better, looks better, more functions etc. lol)

Also I have tried WMP again since getting my raptor x raid0 running

No stuttering

So perhaps try winamp or look at say...samsung F1?

 

[Freak]

Just playing some music off of last.fm and it is stuttering there.

What could this be?

 

[zak4994]

Motherboard going wonky?

 

[mrapoc]

Audio device?

Try unisntall/reinstall or newer drivers or a totally different device?

is something using all cpu/ram or saturating hard drive? some anti viruses can be quite aggressive

 

[Freak]

just uninstalled the device in devmgmt.msc and then installed it.

But its still there.

Sound drives arent available in safe mode are they? I dont think so.....

Looking at the preformance monitor when it stutters page/sec drops.

I will look at what that displays, if someone doesnt see this and posts.

Now it doesnt look as though its that. BIG stutter and nothing was out of place/trend

 

[mrapoc]

Got a spare soundcard or another machine to test the soundcard in?

How about...booting linux live cd (ubuntu 9.04) - it should install ur device

test it there

if its fine, id say try reinstalling windows

 

[Freak]

I am not sure about another machine:

The sound card uses the tiny pci slot above the northbridge (?)

I have virtual box installed so would that work?

 

[mrapoc]

No idea mate, but ud still have to download ubuntu anyway so u may as well try live booting it

SHOULD detect the sound card

 

[Freak]

I installed Ubuntu and installed it in a virtual environment.

The skipping was still there.

Am I now right in thinking that this is not a driver issue? As windows and linux would use different drivers?

 

[mrapoc]

indeed mate

next step id say is try a spare hdd.

then after that soundcard device - u can get them pretty cheap anyway

 

[Freak]

Cheers, repd for the help

 

[mrapoc]

ty, nice to see others using rep

 

[Freak]

Tried playing music off of another computer on the network and the stutter was there.