St-t-t-tuttery Audio

[Kevin Gorman]

how much cache is on that cpu?

[massplanck]

Its a Maxtor 6Y120L0 120 GB IDE

I had some problems with these drives recently as well.

As for the motherboard it was an MSI K7n2 delta. So if you have the same board, I'd check into that as well.

Holy **** did i just build the worlds most musically unstable pc or what? :lol:

What next? The PC is going start bleeping & saying "thats shit" whenever I'm working on a song.

[massplanck]

*Switches RS7000 back on*

[BRADLEE]

Holy **** did i just build the worlds most musically unstable pc or what?

Not nessicarily, but I had 2 of the recent Maxtors go out on me. Both were new drives less than 6 months old too.

Sorry homie. I just switched to some Serial ATA drives instead for my OS. However the 2 remaining Maxtors I have are older ones and I am just using them for Storage.

[Basil Rush]

meh.
audio files without stuttering.

any help?

you could take it to a trance forum where t hey'll pay good money for that effect :)

[RDR]

A.Have you got external harddrives? if so remove
B. Change PCI slot, the nearer the chipset the better
C. Remove all background processes
D. Ramp up buffer settings
E. Defragging at this stage shouldnt affect anything
F. update USB drivers
G. Update graphics drivers
H. check in managment for drivers that display the ! icon

I know i've gone over solutions others have mentioned, im just brainstorming here... to my mind the solution is gonna be a simple thing, something you overlooked, the crackling is obviously system wide and therefore is system related rather than a specific software problem. stuttering in my experience at system level is often related to a component or driver problem.

if i think of anything else random ill post... in the meantime im feeling ya pain, its so frustrating...

[BRADLEE]

A.Have you got external harddrives? if so remove
B. Change PCI slot, the nearer the chipset the better
C. Remove all background processes
D. Ramp up buffer settings
E. Defragging at this stage shouldnt affect anything
F. update USB drivers
G. Update graphics drivers
H. check in managment for drivers that display the ! icon

I know i've gone over solutions others have mentioned, im just brainstorming here... to my mind the solution is gonna be a simple thing, something you overlooked, the crackling is obviously system wide and therefore is system related rather than a specific software problem. stuttering in my experience at system level is often related to a component or driver problem.

if i think of anything else random ill post... in the meantime im feeling ya pain, its so frustrating...

Some good advice right there before you go and format. Good man. :clap:

[TechnoNRGKid]

See if this helps...
"Your computer may be very new and the playback hardware acceleration may be set too high."

To decrease your playback hardware acceleration settings, follow these steps:
1. Click Start | Settings | Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Multimedia icon. The Multimedia Properties window appears.
3. Click the box next to Use preferred devices only so that it contains a check mark.
4. Click the Advanced Properties button (located in the Playback area).
5. Click the Performance tab.
6. Click the Hardware Acceleration slider bar and move it to the Basic Acceleration setting.
7. Click OK.
8. Click OK again to close the Multimedia Properties window.
9. Close the Control Panel.



Translated for Windows XP

Goto Control Panel, click Sounds Speech and Audio Devices
Sounds and Audio Devices
Check "Use only default devices"
Click "Advanced" by sound Playback
Performance
6.Click the Hardware Acceleration slider bar and move it to the Basic Acceleration setting.
7. Click OK.

That should stop the stutters.
If that works, you can try and move the slider up a notch till it starts, then move it back to the previous notch that last work with out stutters.

Other wise...

sounds like an irq sharing problem
Place your sound card in a different pci slot

Try this, untill possibly finding an working pci slot.

[dan the acid man]

how much cache is on that cpu?

i think they all have 256 L2 and 128 L1

[massplanck]

its fixed finally..

and it was a noisy IDE cable that was causing the problem.


picking up today to hammer the shit out of it & make sure.