A7V333 sound stutter problem

[dan]

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

 

[the gnome]

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

 

[Ramboyd]

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

 

[DJ]

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)!

 

[the gnome]

Hmmm. hadn't spotted the RAID problem.

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

the_gnome

 

[dan]

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!