Audio problem on XP

[Bluuuue Rajah]

When I put a new heard drive into my Compaq Evo, I had to re-installed XP,
but the process didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked. Now I have
problems with my audio driver, which suggest to me that its interrupt
priority is set wrong with respect to other interrupts.

When I play an mp3, I occasionally get a skipping sound, and if I do
something resource intensive, like loading a big application, the problem
becomes intolerable, until the load is finished.

Am I correct that this is a problem with the interrupt priority of my audio
driver, and how do I fix it?

 

[wisdomkiller & pain]

When I put a new heard drive into my Compaq Evo, I had to re-installed XP,
but the process didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked. Now I have
problems with my audio driver, which suggest to me that its interrupt
priority is set wrong with respect to other interrupts.

When I play an mp3, I occasionally get a skipping sound, and if I do
something resource intensive, like loading a big application, the problem
becomes intolerable, until the load is finished.

Am I correct that this is a problem with the interrupt priority of my
audio driver, and how do I fix it?

It's more likely a problem with your harddrive - DMA may be missing due to
improper chipset drivers. Reinstall them from the mainboard cd or get them
from the compaq homepage searching the driver download section for your
model.

 

[chuckcar]

When I put a new heard drive into my Compaq Evo, I had to re-installed
XP, but the process didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked. Now I
have problems with my audio driver, which suggest to me that its
interrupt priority is set wrong with respect to other interrupts.

When I play an mp3, I occasionally get a skipping sound, and if I do
something resource intensive, like loading a big application, the
problem becomes intolerable, until the load is finished.

Am I correct that this is a problem with the interrupt priority of my
audio driver, and how do I fix it?

Do you have *any* hardware attached to the computer that didn't come from
compaq when you run the install CD? They *require* *only* the hardware
that came in the computer when it came out of the factory. Aside from the
hard drive, monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse that is.

 

[Pennywise]

When I put a new heard drive into my Compaq Evo, I had to re-installed XP,
but the process didn't go as smoothly as I would have liked. Now I have
problems with my audio driver, which suggest to me that its interrupt
priority is set wrong with respect to other interrupts.

When I play an mp3, I occasionally get a skipping sound, and if I do
something resource intensive, like loading a big application, the problem
becomes intolerable, until the load is finished.

Am I correct that this is a problem with the interrupt priority of my audio
driver, and how do I fix it?

No, your on the wrong track; PCI has taken over setting the
interrupts. They can be changed, but there is no need.

View your IRQ's

Start | Run <type in>
msinfo32
<enter>

Hardware Resources > check for conflicts and forced hardware

To test your audio for problems:

Start | Run <type in>
dxdiag
<enter>

Sometimes reducing acceleration will fix a problem.

 

[Bluuuue Rajah]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

No, your on the wrong track; PCI has taken over setting the
interrupts. They can be changed, but there is no need.

View your IRQ's

Start | Run <type in>
msinfo32
<enter>

Hardware Resources > check for conflicts and forced hardware

You're right. That says that I have some conflicts, but unfortunately,
I can't copy and paste the data into thie message.

It says that I have a memory conflict between the PCI bus and the
graphics controller and an IO port conflict between the PCI bus and the
DMA controller. Should I pick unused values, with the same formats as
the existing values, and just change over to them?

To test your audio for problems:

Start | Run <type in>
dxdiag
<enter>

Sometimes reducing acceleration will fix a problem.

The audio seems to be working fine.

 

[Pennywise]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

You're right. That says that I have some conflicts, but unfortunately,
I can't copy and paste the data into thie message.

It says that I have a memory conflict between the PCI bus and the
graphics controller and an IO port conflict between the PCI bus and the
DMA controller. Should I pick unused values, with the same formats as
the existing values, and just change over to them?

It's conflicts AND sharing, PCI will share IRQ's with other devices. I
have the PCI bus and the DMA controler (sharing as it takes PCI to
operate the DMA controler.

Plus I have the onboard video and my Geforce video card sharing around
5 IRQ's and lots of memory addresses

Look at your IRQ's they should say OK, if not your have a problem.

Also look for forced software as that would indicate an error.

 

[Bluuuue Rajah]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

It's conflicts AND sharing, PCI will share IRQ's with other devices. I
have the PCI bus and the DMA controler (sharing as it takes PCI to
operate the DMA controler.

Plus I have the onboard video and my Geforce video card sharing around
5 IRQ's and lots of memory addresses

Look at your IRQ's they should say OK, if not your have a problem.

I have both the USB and graphics controllers using IRQ 16. It does explain
why my (USB) printer has started acting up, but why would it give me bad
audio?

Also look for forced software as that would indicate an error.

I don't know what you mean by "forced software."

 

[Pennywise]

I don't know what you mean by "forced software."

hardware > forced software.

All being said and done, only if something is actually wrong with a
Interrupt or memory address can one be changed (XP only). NT to
Win2000 anytime you want to

Start | Run <type in>
devmgmt.msc
<enter>

Goto the device in question (most likely the one with a yellow ! mark)
double click on it and go to Resources, if something is wrong you will
be able to unselect "use auto settings" - and select new settings.

 

[Bluuuue Rajah]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

hardware > forced software.

All being said and done, only if something is actually wrong with a
Interrupt or memory address can one be changed (XP only). NT to
Win2000 anytime you want to

Start | Run <type in>
devmgmt.msc
<enter>

Goto the device in question (most likely the one with a yellow ! mark)
double click on it and go to Resources, if something is wrong you will
be able to unselect "use auto settings" - and select new settings.

I ran devmgmt, but nothing shows up with a yellow exclamation point. In
this case, what is the "device" in question, audio or IDE?