Audio Play Back Stutter

[mrapoc]

Try putting the music on this other machine? So its independantly playing the music off its own hard drive. This would deffo put it down to the other machine. Do you have trouble with games at all?

 

[Freak]

I have finally found another HDD that I can grab.

Tried it and the stutter was no there.

I guess that even when playing music off of the network it still went through my dodgey HDD.

Now, I need a new drive. Cheapish preferably.

I was wandering if I bought two cheap small HDDs then raid'd them for the OS and have another for staorage?

 

[mrapoc]

hmm

look at the samsung F1 - fast and not too expensive

 

[Freak]

OK, got me a caviar black 500gb drive ;D

It seemed to stop the stutttering but everynow and then its there.

Running stock speeds.

 

[Freak]

I seem to be getting the stuttering again. Any ideas, apart from kicking the **** out of it?

 

[Rastalovich]

So it seems to get worse the longer u have the drive, even starting with a blank one.

U do lots of small file movement by any chance ? Anything that can really frag things up ?

 

[Freak]

Nope just general office/gaming stuff.

 

[Rastalovich]

Try getting rid of all file indexing on the drive.

Open up an explorer, select the drive with the right-click, goto properties and uncheck the indexing thing at the bottom.

It'll come back to u with a cancel/skip/ignore/ignore-all - or something, just click ignore all.

I can't imagine it hogging ur new drive as... well, it's relatively new, but it'll improve disk performance that little % anyway.

To erradicate this problem properly, I'd need a heck of alot more information than we have here, starting off with a snapshot of ur processes running - just to get that out of the way. If u got that many that u have to scroll the window - take 2 snapshots

(right-click taskbar, goto TaskManager->Processes)

 

[Freak]

Had indexing on, never turned it off. Why would I want fast searches as i never really do them anyways.

 

[Rastalovich]

No that's the thing, with it on it builds a db of file stuff only helpful when searching - best to untick it.

brb with info on processes.

 

[Freak]

I know what the processes are and nothing there isnt meant to be there - tranlsation, its all good.

 

[sammytomjohn]

do u use an ssd freak??

 

[Freak]

No SSD, using sata. No raid.

 

[Rastalovich]

Whilst ur on desktop, keep taskmanager open and try running the video after u have ended each one of these processes in turn:

jusched.exe (Java update scheduler)

WINDWORD.exe (Word)

oodag.exe (O&O defrag)

oodtray.exe (O&O defrag tray thing)

lastfm.exe (music sharing program)

wlcomm.exe (Windows Live Messenger Contacts Server)

OUTLOOK.exe (Outlook)

schedul2.exe (Acronis TrueImage scheduler)

TrueImageTryStartService.exe

mantispm.exe (meant to be ZoneAlarm's anti-spam module)

zlclient.exe (ZoneAlarm)

ScanningProcess.exe x2 ("should" be ZoneAlarm's scanning thing - but some malware use this process name)

OverClk.exe (ASUS overclock util)

Xfire.exe (DMXFire 1024 control panel)

Biggest thing here is True Image scheduling - close it down and try.

Maybe a bit bigger is ZoneAlarm - close it down and try.

If it were me, I'd close all of those and try, they'll start up again when u restart - none of them are required for media playing.

If u try all the above and it still stutters, u gotta look at the soundmax. If video stutters at the same time, I would close the soundmax and retry.

 

[Freak]

Almost posted that I would try it in safe mode - it wouldnt run sound drivers tho would it :S

winword runs when I use outlook for some reason.

 

[sammytomjohn]

hi dude i know you dont use ide but this sound alot like ur problem they talk of conflicts between dvd drives and hardrives communicating with jmicron controllers

its worth a look:

.I solved a problem very much like this today, and I was lucky to come across the solution. I searched high and low to find it.

For me, my sound/mouse/video would stutter when my hard drive was accessed sometimes. I had just replaced the motherboard since my last one died. My old motherboard was an Asus P5W/DH and the new one is a P5K. I'm running core2duo 6300, 2GB of ram, and 2 IDE HDD's. Both motherboards have a JMicron HDD controller, and I was sure to update the driver in windows when I put the new mobo in.

The solution came from HERE (I don't want to claim it as my own idea!)

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthrea [...] ge=2&pp=25

and more specifically, a file from here:

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/jmicron.htm

It's as simple as this: the JMicron driver that was bundled with the P5K installed itself automatically for SATA. I don't have SATA, I have IDE drives. When I downloaded the driver from the above site, it actually asked me if I have SATA or IDE. Once I chose IDE, the problem was INSTANTLY fixed. (also, the "updated" drivers from the ASUS website didn't fix my problem)

I can't tell you how many forums I read to finally get the solution, and there's so many people making so many diagnoses' about temperature levels, graphics card drivers, and so on, and they haven't actually suffered the problem themselves.

And then, when each person solves the problem for themselves, they are then happy, and probably don't bother to let everyone else know how!

 

[sammytomjohn]

let me know if it helps!

 

[Freak]

Read further down that post not to do that.

 

[sammytomjohn]

but isit possible you got some sort of hdd controller problem???

 

[Freak]

Could be

I have just rolled back to some other drivers.

The Nforce drivers for my board

Nforce drivers

windows drivers

It was the plain nforce driver. CHanged it to the 580/90 ones. Will try windows if all else fails. Seems good so far. Nope just stuttered.