!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HELP PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tarzan]

hi,

I have a athalon 1800+, with 512 Megs of DDR ram, 60 gig HD, and a 32 meg
ATI radeon 7000 video card (AGP 2x/4x) and a Realmagic Hollywood video
accelerator card.

The problem is that whenever I play a video (mpeg/avi/asf/ DVD or any other
format) it plays fine for about a minute and a half and then it stutters
(audio and video) for a split second and then this repeats every 30-60
seconds. If I play my mpegs or DVD's through the video accelerator card it
works fine.

This started when I had to replace my Motherboard and my HD.

I tried increasing the size of the windows swap file and have tried
everything I could think of with the video settings. nothing seems to work.
It is driving me nuts.....I would appreciate any help that anyone could
provide. PLEASE...................

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lenroc]

tarzan made it known on Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:45:21 -0700 that he thought
this was worth saying:

hi,

I have a athalon 1800+, with 512 Megs of DDR ram, 60 gig HD, and a 32 meg
ATI radeon 7000 video card (AGP 2x/4x) and a Realmagic Hollywood video
accelerator card.

The problem is that whenever I play a video (mpeg/avi/asf/ DVD or any other
format) it plays fine for about a minute and a half and then it stutters
(audio and video) for a split second and then this repeats every 30-60
seconds. If I play my mpegs or DVD's through the video accelerator card it
works fine.

When you were installing MMC, there should have been a method to check
your system for full compatability with MMC. Did you run those checks?
When I did, I was told that there was some problem with my DVD player or
my soundcard or something (I don't really remember) that might cause
stuttering during playback. Run that check and see if it says something
similar. IIRC, it had some steps to try to correct it.

Another option is, what sort of background tasks do you have going. Like,
for example, is Outlook Express checking your email every 60 seconds?

HTH

 

[Dodgy]

tarzan made it known on Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:45:21 -0700 that he thought
this was worth saying:


When you were installing MMC, there should have been a method to check
your system for full compatability with MMC. Did you run those checks?
When I did, I was told that there was some problem with my DVD player or
my soundcard or something (I don't really remember) that might cause
stuttering during playback. Run that check and see if it says something
similar. IIRC, it had some steps to try to correct it.

Another option is, what sort of background tasks do you have going. Like,
for example, is Outlook Express checking your email every 60 seconds?

HTH

When you changed your motherboard, did you re-install windows from
scratch, or do you have now have a copy of windows bulging with
chipset drivers from your old motherboard?

D0d6y.

 

[Lenroc]

Open your ATI MMC Configuration Program (Start>Programs>ATI Multimedia
Center>Configuration).

Go to the PC Check tab.

Just try those tests.

Worth a shot, although it's a long one

-Lenroc

 

[patrickp]

My newsreader reports alt.os.windows.xp as not resolving, so I'm setting
this to just alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati.

Open your ATI MMC Configuration Program (Start>Programs>ATI Multimedia
Center>Configuration).

Go to the PC Check tab.

Just try those tests.

Worth a shot, although it's a long one

-Lenroc

Bear in mind that the tests have to be interpreted with a liberal pinch of
salt. For instance, it is very common for them to say you don't have the
capture drivers installed when you do (and they're working), and they will
also report your drives as not having DMA enabled if you're not using the
standard Windows DMA controllers.

patrickp

 

[Lenroc]

Bear in mind that the tests have to be interpreted with a liberal pinch of
salt. For instance, it is very common for them to say you don't have the
capture drivers installed when you do (and they're working), and they will
also report your drives as not having DMA enabled if you're not using the
standard Windows DMA controllers.

I'd probably go with more like a tablespoon full of salt, but I think it
might catch some simple problems.

 

[tarzan]

Thank you all for your help. It so turns out that it was my video card. I
replaced it with a GeForce 4. Works fine so far.

Thanks again.