hesitation while music is playing

havyer · #1 October 5th, 2004, 09:17 PM

hey all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

when I play any sort of media (cd, mp3, mpeg, etc), about every five minutes or so the music sounds like it hesitates, then goes back to normal. it's almost like the cpu is being overloaded or something, but when I open up the task manager, the cpu is barely being used.

some of my system information:
I'm running winxp, amd athlon 1.4ghz cpu, 384mb RAM

I primarily use winamp for my music, but it happens with just about any program I use. It happens with music and videos.

any help would be appreciated

thanks

**zipulrich** · #2 October 5th, 2004, 10:00 PM

Sound card, or on-board sound?

havyer · #3 October 5th, 2004, 10:29 PM

both, actually.

but I couldn't get on-board sound to work after I reformatted once, so I went and bought a sound card. It didn't do this at first, I've just noticed it within the last few months.

renegade600 · #4 October 6th, 2004, 05:07 AM

check and make sure your onboard sound is disable. Possibly your computer reverted back to using the onboard sound.

havyer · #5 October 6th, 2004, 06:07 AM

I couldn't find the onboard sound in the bios, so I'm going to say that it's disabled.

The problem could be that I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

thanks,

renegade600 · #6 October 6th, 2004, 06:17 AM

What brand/model of computer do you have?

havyer · #7 October 6th, 2004, 06:09 PM

the mb is a NVIDIA geforce2 mx/mx 400

bAdWaYz · #8 October 8th, 2004, 07:00 AM

The mainboard is an Nvidia Geforce2 MX 400? That is a vid card for sure but never heard of a mobo of that make. Also if you have onboard sound it would show up in the BIOS even if its disabled you would see a line for it and see that it was in fact set to "disabled" or "off".

gundamhybrid · #9 October 8th, 2004, 09:15 AM

yea, maybe u'r soundcard are not disable,...or maybe u'r program to heavy or the computer to much using program. please check it too

havyer · #10 October 8th, 2004, 04:22 PM

my apologies, I guess I don't even know how to check my own motherboard.

it's an ecs k7s5a

havyer · #11 October 8th, 2004, 04:29 PM

ok, onboard sound was already disabled, so that wasn't the problem.

gundamhybrid · #12 October 9th, 2004, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by havyer

ok, onboard sound was already disabled, so that wasn't the problem.

did it happen when the sound have "hesitates" ...?
if the sound have it from the first time u instaled the OS ... maybe u'r OS does not corectlly instaled, ...
if the sound looks normaly from in the first time, maybe u'r OS have some "heavy" progres. O... what is the memory (RAM) model?

havyer · #13 October 9th, 2004, 10:42 PM

well here's the deal...

I have a wireless connection here, and I figured I'd try just disabling the connection to see if that was the problem (I don't remember it hesistating before I got broadband). Well, it turns out when I disabled it worked fine...then the second I enabled it it hesitated again.

now I really don't know what to do.

gundamhybrid · #14 October 11th, 2004, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by havyer

well here's the deal...

I have a wireless connection here, and I figured I'd try just disabling the connection to see if that was the problem (I don't remember it hesistating before I got broadband). Well, it turns out when I disabled it worked fine...then the second I enabled it it hesitated again.

now I really don't know what to do.

well well ... umm ... u got some noise (maybe) from u'r connection yea (hey this is the real problem?) ... ok, back again. what models of u'r sound card, maybe ... (I repeat) maybe if u change u'r sound card (borrow from u'r friends or change to onboard sound), u'll have un-hesitated, ...