I have a A7V333 mb with 512 megs ram & 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon CPU. I'm
running WIN XP Pro. I am running the RAID with dual Maxtor 40 GBHD AT133.
The on board chipset for sound is C-Media CMI8738. I have ALL of the
latest updates form both MicroSoft & Asus for this m/b.

Every time I play an MP3 file ( size and sample rate does not seem to
matter ) or anything running under windows Media player within the first 15
seconds there will be a stutter / pause in the music. It will continue to
play.

I even went as far as disabling the on board sound card and install a Sound
Blaster 5.1 Live sound card.

SAME PROBLEM.

Does any one have an idea what is wrong ?

At this point I am convinced it is the motherboard. The same exact mp3
files run fine on a 1 GHZ AMD using another ASUS motherboard.

Dan

I have the same problem sometimes but with Quicktime sound.

I had the audiop onput through a software mixer rather than the c-media and
I also found disabling the firewire somtimes helped.

the_gnome

"dan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:vd1Ib.48$jR1.21@fe01...
> I have a A7V333 mb with 512 megs ram & 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon CPU. I'm
> running WIN XP Pro. I am running the RAID with dual Maxtor 40 GBHD AT133.
> The on board chipset for sound is C-Media CMI8738. I have ALL of the
> latest updates form both MicroSoft & Asus for this m/b.
>
> Every time I play an MP3 file ( size and sample rate does not seem to
> matter ) or anything running under windows Media player within the first
15
> seconds there will be a stutter / pause in the music. It will continue to
> play.
>
> I even went as far as disabling the on board sound card and install a
Sound
> Blaster 5.1 Live sound card.
>
> SAME PROBLEM.
>
> Does any one have an idea what is wrong ?
>
> At this point I am convinced it is the motherboard. The same exact mp3
> files run fine on a 1 GHZ AMD using another ASUS motherboard.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>

dan wrote:

> I have a A7V333 mb with 512 megs ram & 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon CPU. I'm
> running WIN XP Pro. I am running the RAID with dual Maxtor 40 GBHD AT133.
> The on board chipset for sound is C-Media CMI8738. I have ALL of the
> latest updates form both MicroSoft & Asus for this m/b.
>
> Every time I play an MP3 file ( size and sample rate does not seem to
> matter ) or anything running under windows Media player within the first 15
> seconds there will be a stutter / pause in the music. It will continue to
> play.
>
> I even went as far as disabling the on board sound card and install a Sound
> Blaster 5.1 Live sound card.
>
> SAME PROBLEM.
>
> Does any one have an idea what is wrong ?
>
> At this point I am convinced it is the motherboard. The same exact mp3
> files run fine on a 1 GHZ AMD using another ASUS motherboard.
>
> Dan

I have the exact same problem with the A7A266 board and a 1400 processor. I
checked the IRQ's, and almost everything was on IRQ 9. I removed all the cards
except video and audio and reloaded the OS. Same thing. I tried 3 different
video cards (2 AGP and one PCI). I also tried 3 different audio cards in every
slot. Same. I tried 3 different OS, Win 98 Lite, Win2000 and XP. Same. I
disabled Plug and Play OS in the BIOS. Also disabled any ports I wasn't using,
com, serial, printer ports and modem riser. I made slot 5 an IRQ of 5. Reloaded
OS, (Win 2000). Same thing except the IRQs were different for each card. At
this point I give up. I'm setting up this computer as a file server with RAID
and no multimeda.

Ramboyd

found the problem was caused by the fact that the sound and the raid are on
the same circuit if you look at the bit in the manual where it says what is
assigned to different slots for resources & found putting my audigy 2
soundcard in the fourth pci slot cured it. I also got rid of the onboard
raid and put a sperate pci raid card in to be sure to free the load system
never stutters now (touch wood)!
"Ramboyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> dan wrote:
>
> > I have a A7V333 mb with 512 megs ram & 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon CPU. I'm
> > running WIN XP Pro. I am running the RAID with dual Maxtor 40 GBHD
AT133.
> > The on board chipset for sound is C-Media CMI8738. I have ALL of the
> > latest updates form both MicroSoft & Asus for this m/b.
> >
> > Every time I play an MP3 file ( size and sample rate does not seem to
> > matter ) or anything running under windows Media player within the
first 15
> > seconds there will be a stutter / pause in the music. It will continue
to
> > play.
> >
> > I even went as far as disabling the on board sound card and install a
Sound
> > Blaster 5.1 Live sound card.
> >
> > SAME PROBLEM.
> >
> > Does any one have an idea what is wrong ?
> >
> > At this point I am convinced it is the motherboard. The same exact mp3
> > files run fine on a 1 GHZ AMD using another ASUS motherboard.
> >
> > Dan
>
> I have the exact same problem with the A7A266 board and a 1400 processor.
I
> checked the IRQ's, and almost everything was on IRQ 9. I removed all the
cards
> except video and audio and reloaded the OS. Same thing. I tried 3
different
> video cards (2 AGP and one PCI). I also tried 3 different audio cards in
every
> slot. Same. I tried 3 different OS, Win 98 Lite, Win2000 and XP. Same.
I
> disabled Plug and Play OS in the BIOS. Also disabled any ports I wasn't
using,
> com, serial, printer ports and modem riser. I made slot 5 an IRQ of 5.
Reloaded
> OS, (Win 2000). Same thing except the IRQs were different for each card.
At
> this point I give up. I'm setting up this computer as a file server with
RAID
> and no multimeda.
>
> Ramboyd
>
>

Hmmm. hadn't spotted the RAID problem.

Maybe I can manually move RAID to a free set of interupts

the_gnome


"DJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bst0me$qcp$(E-Mail Removed)...
> found the problem was caused by the fact that the sound and the raid are
on
> the same circuit if you look at the bit in the manual where it says what
is
> assigned to different slots for resources & found putting my audigy 2
> soundcard in the fourth pci slot cured it. I also got rid of the onboard
> raid and put a sperate pci raid card in to be sure to free the load system
> never stutters now (touch wood)!
> "Ramboyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > dan wrote:
> >
> > > I have a A7V333 mb with 512 megs ram & 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon CPU. I'm
> > > running WIN XP Pro. I am running the RAID with dual Maxtor 40 GBHD
> AT133.
> > > The on board chipset for sound is C-Media CMI8738. I have ALL of the
> > > latest updates form both MicroSoft & Asus for this m/b.
> > >
> > > Every time I play an MP3 file ( size and sample rate does not seem to
> > > matter ) or anything running under windows Media player within the
> first 15
> > > seconds there will be a stutter / pause in the music. It will
continue
> to
> > > play.
> > >
> > > I even went as far as disabling the on board sound card and install a
> Sound
> > > Blaster 5.1 Live sound card.
> > >
> > > SAME PROBLEM.
> > >
> > > Does any one have an idea what is wrong ?
> > >
> > > At this point I am convinced it is the motherboard. The same exact
mp3
> > > files run fine on a 1 GHZ AMD using another ASUS motherboard.
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > I have the exact same problem with the A7A266 board and a 1400
processor.
> I
> > checked the IRQ's, and almost everything was on IRQ 9. I removed all
the
> cards
> > except video and audio and reloaded the OS. Same thing. I tried 3
> different
> > video cards (2 AGP and one PCI). I also tried 3 different audio cards
in
> every
> > slot. Same. I tried 3 different OS, Win 98 Lite, Win2000 and XP. Same.
> I
> > disabled Plug and Play OS in the BIOS. Also disabled any ports I wasn't
> using,
> > com, serial, printer ports and modem riser. I made slot 5 an IRQ of 5.
> Reloaded
> > OS, (Win 2000). Same thing except the IRQs were different for each card.
> At
> > this point I give up. I'm setting up this computer as a file server
with
> RAID
> > and no multimeda.
> >
> > Ramboyd
> >
> >
>
>

The RAID controller was a GOOD try but it DID NOT take care of the problem.
I removed both drives connected to the RAID controller. Place the secondary
RAID on the Primary IDE controller. Disable SCSI driver for RAID on M/B and
in driver section.

Same problem.

Conclusion: This motherboard sucks!


"DJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bst0me$qcp$(E-Mail Removed)...
> found the problem was caused by the fact that the sound and the raid are
on
> the same circuit if you look at the bit in the manual where it says what
is
> assigned to different slots for resources & found putting my audigy 2
> soundcard in the fourth pci slot cured it. I also got rid of the onboard
> raid and put a sperate pci raid card in to be sure to free the load system
> never stutters now (touch wood)!
> "Ramboyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > dan wrote:
> >
> > > I have a A7V333 mb with 512 megs ram & 2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon CPU. I'm
> > > running WIN XP Pro. I am running the RAID with dual Maxtor 40 GBHD
> AT133.
> > > The on board chipset for sound is C-Media CMI8738. I have ALL of the
> > > latest updates form both MicroSoft & Asus for this m/b.
> > >
> > > Every time I play an MP3 file ( size and sample rate does not seem to
> > > matter ) or anything running under windows Media player within the
> first 15
> > > seconds there will be a stutter / pause in the music. It will
continue
> to
> > > play.
> > >
> > > I even went as far as disabling the on board sound card and install a
> Sound
> > > Blaster 5.1 Live sound card.
> > >
> > > SAME PROBLEM.
> > >
> > > Does any one have an idea what is wrong ?
> > >
> > > At this point I am convinced it is the motherboard. The same exact
mp3
> > > files run fine on a 1 GHZ AMD using another ASUS motherboard.
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > I have the exact same problem with the A7A266 board and a 1400
processor.
> I
> > checked the IRQ's, and almost everything was on IRQ 9. I removed all
the
> cards
> > except video and audio and reloaded the OS. Same thing. I tried 3
> different
> > video cards (2 AGP and one PCI). I also tried 3 different audio cards
in
> every
> > slot. Same. I tried 3 different OS, Win 98 Lite, Win2000 and XP. Same.
> I
> > disabled Plug and Play OS in the BIOS. Also disabled any ports I wasn't
> using,
> > com, serial, printer ports and modem riser. I made slot 5 an IRQ of 5.
> Reloaded
> > OS, (Win 2000). Same thing except the IRQs were different for each card.
> At
> > this point I give up. I'm setting up this computer as a file server
with
> RAID
> > and no multimeda.
> >
> > Ramboyd
> >
> >
>
>