Weird music problem....

[Pcoop]

Doesnt matter if its an MP3 bought off of itunes or a cd that has been ripped. Whenever i play my music since this new install it will slow down and or skip when opening a program/programs or even the loading of a website?

how frustrating is that? anyone have any ideas what the problem could be...

I've tried it on both of my hard drives, maybe one was knackered to no avail. I have tried installing the 4 in 1 drivers and the audio drivers for my onboard soundcard.

tried it with both onboard soundcard and my old soundblaster but still it dont work


have i just done something very stupid wrong? Other than type this post with very little use of grammar and punctuation.

seems it isnt just music now... its games too... playing pro evolution running fine no problems, then a download finished, game goes crazy for a 30 seconds then returns to normal.


any help appreciated thanx

[Dougal]

During downloads games and so on will be fine.

When a download is finished the file is normally verified, dependant on the size of the file this may be noticeable or could take a few minutes.

I agree with Pyle. Azureus (more specifically Java) is notorious for taking up lots of memory, mine takes up 300MB, so I have to disable it often.

[BenW]

Is it skipping with processor at 100%?

Try setting priority of winamp to above normal, might be able to do it in the target line of a shortcut.

[Pcoop]

Is it skipping with processor at 100%?

Try setting priority of winamp to above normal, might be able to do it in the target line of a shortcut.

it might just be that. im using itunes... will i be able to do it with that?

[Pcoop]

Heres an easier way to explain the problem....

say im unzipping something my pc will totally slow down. when applying a patch for a game it will too. which will make music skip etc among other things...

[skuzgib]

Heres an easier way to explain the problem....

say im unzipping something my pc will totally slow down. when applying a patch for a game it will too. which will make music skip etc among other things...

That's 'cause unzipping + patching are CPU and HDD intensive tasks...

It's the nature of the beast i'm afraid.

[streetster]

do you have a CD-rom drive on the same cable as your Harddrive? if so put the harddrive on its own cable

[Pcoop]

That's 'cause unzipping + patching are CPU and HDD intensive tasks...

It's the nature of the beast i'm afraid.

thing is, it didnt happen until i reformatted my pc.

and no the cdrom isnt on the hard drives ide cable.

[G4Z]

Have you got your IDE controller drivers installed?

What chipset you using?

[SilentDeath]

CPU intesnsive tasks ***will*** make sound pause and the only thing you can do about it is buy dual cpus or a dual core cpu.


The problem sounds as if you have your HDD set in PIO mode (which is extremly cpu intensive and has a max read/write speed of 16.4mb/s - so very slow aswell). If its in PIO you wont really ybe able to do anything at the same time as copying files for example.
So does your hdd seem very slow compared to before?

[webbyman]

could be the program you are using to play has not go highest priority for playing music, although you say it plays games fine

could be more to to with more than 1 program using same language like java which tends to be of a laggy nature?

[BenW]

Is there not something you can put in the shortcut target to make it run at a higher priority

If you want to put it higher each time you open, right click the process in task manager, priority, above normal

[Pcoop]

The problem sounds as if you have your HDD set in PIO mode (which is extremly cpu intensive and has a max read/write speed of 16.4mb/s - so very slow aswell). If its in PIO you wont really ybe able to do anything at the same time as copying files for example.
So does your hdd seem very slow compared to before?

this is the problem my brother found it last night, thing is it cannot be changed from pio to whatever it is normally.

[SilentDeath]

Have a look in the bios, there should be a age with IDE setup asking you what PIO mode and if you want to use UDMA. Stick everything on auto or UDMA (not PIO) and it should work. If not then its a windows problem.

If you goto device manager (windows key + pause/break, hardware tab, then device manager button) then find your drives and your ata controlers in the list and goto the propertys page of them, you should then be able to set them to UDMA mode 33 at minimium (higher modes require a slightly different cable but I would be supprised if you were using a one that would limit you to udma33).

Windows XP for some reson didnt let me change it when I tryed a few years ago so I then put windows 2k on and never had a problem. some people seem to like XP so someone should know how to change it.

[Pcoop]

If you goto device manager (windows key + pause/break, hardware tab, then device manager button) then find your drives and your ata controlers in the list and goto the propertys page of them, you should then be able to set them to UDMA mode 33 at minimium (higher modes require a slightly different cable but I would be supprised if you were using a one that would limit you to udma33).

aye i get to that bit and can choose "dma when available or pio only"....

in the next field it says "using pio" everything related to dma in my bios is related to auto. or dma ratehr than pio...

bloody things

[SilentDeath]

aye i get to that bit and can choose "dma when available or pio only"....

in the next field it says "using pio" everything related to dma in my bios is related to auto. or dma ratehr than pio...

bloody things

What board and drives are you using? does it only happen on hdds or optical drives? A lot of old optical drives used PIO4 becuase they were that slow anyway and it was cheaper to make. All new'ish ones (last 7 years?) will use udma33 or 66.

If its an nvidia board (assuming your using the onboard IDE/SATA) changing the drivers could help. Nvidia has an optimised IDE driver (for nvidia boards only) which may help, or may be causing the problem if your already using it.
When installing nvidia drivers it will give you the option if you want to use it.