Music stutters when opening applications

[brain_wired]

Hello,

When I play music on any player and open applications such as word,
browser the music starts to stutter when the applicaiton is opening
but after they are opened the music plays fine. I have reinstalled the
audio driver thinking that was the problem but the problem persists.
Any thoughts from anyone ?

thanks
wired

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,

When I play music on any player and open applications such as word,
browser the music starts to stutter when the applicaiton is opening
but after they are opened the music plays fine. I have reinstalled the
audio driver thinking that was the problem but the problem persists.
Any thoughts from anyone ?

thanks
wired

Have a look at your Task Manager / Performance (Ctrl+Shift+Esc)
when you load an application. I suspect that it goes flat out. In
other words, your PC may not be fast enough to cope with the
demands you make on it.

 

[brain_wired]

Have a look at your Task Manager / Performance (Ctrl+Shift+Esc)
when you load an application. I suspect that it goes flat out. In
other words, your PC may not be fast enough to cope with the
demands you make on it.

Thanks.
My specs are Dell inspiron 6000, 512 MB RAM, 2.13 Ghz pentium mobile.
i have been using the notebook for a year and its only in the last
month or so this problem started occuring. my load remains the same.
there are 38 processess running , when once there were 60, i stopped
all the unnecceasry processes. i did check the performance, CPU usage
goes upto 100% , i think thats normal isnt it ? When i open powerpoint
there is no problem, but when i open word, excel, pdf then the problem
occurs. if i open a subsequent word,excel,pdf file when one is already
open there is no problem. Can you figure it out?

wired

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks.
My specs are Dell inspiron 6000, 512 MB RAM, 2.13 Ghz pentium mobile.
i have been using the notebook for a year and its only in the last
month or so this problem started occuring. my load remains the same.
there are 38 processess running , when once there were 60, i stopped
all the unnecceasry processes. i did check the performance, CPU usage
goes upto 100% , i think thats normal isnt it ? When i open powerpoint
there is no problem, but when i open word, excel, pdf then the problem
occurs. if i open a subsequent word,excel,pdf file when one is already
open there is no problem. Can you figure it out?

wired

You now have proof that the stuttering is caused by CPU overload.
You'll have to dig further to find out why it overloads, e.g. by
launching Word or Excel while not playing music. What loading
do you get when the machine is idling? It should be around 5%.

On my machine, which is considerably slower than yours, I can play
music (using RealPlayer) and open Word/Excel with only a brief spike
in processor loading. It never hits the roof. Perhaps your machine
is infected with adware, malware or a virus. Run msconfig.exe, click
the Startup tab and untick the whole lot before rebooting, then check
the Startup tab again. Malware tends to persist even when you
attempt to disable it.

Remember to kill your Internet connection while running these
tests, because your virus scanner / firewall might be disabled.

 

[brain_wired]

You now have proof that the stuttering is caused by CPU overload.
You'll have to dig further to find out why it overloads, e.g. by
launching Word or Excel while not playing music. What loading
do you get when the machine is idling? It should be around 5%.

On my machine, which is considerably slower than yours, I can play
music (using RealPlayer) and open Word/Excel with only a brief spike
in processor loading. It never hits the roof. Perhaps your machine
is infected with adware, malware or a virus. Run msconfig.exe, click
the Startup tab and untick the whole lot before rebooting, then check
the Startup tab again. Malware tends to persist even when you
attempt to disable it.

Remember to kill your Internet connection while running these
tests, because your virus scanner / firewall might be disabled.

when the machine is idle (no applications running) the loading is
around 2 % or less as you said. when i open word/excel when music is
not playing the loading again peaks around 100% depending upon the
application. i did the msconfig exercise but even after rebooting
there were no processes/services enabled and nothing on the tab seems
suspicicous, all were known applications. i will scan for malaware and
see if there is something in my system. thanks again.

wired

 

[Bob I]

Just a thought but is the hardrive running in DMA mode, or did it fall
down to PIO? Look in Device Manager at the Primary IDE chanel
properties, Advanced Setting tab. If it fell back to PIO, remove it an
allow redetection/reinstallation to "clear the error count" and make sur
it set to Use DMA.

 

[brain_wired]

Just a thought but is the hardrive running in DMA mode, or did it fall
down to PIO? Look in Device Manager at the Primary IDE chanel
properties, Advanced Setting tab. If it fell back to PIO, remove it an
allow redetection/reinstallation to "clear the error count" and make sur
it set to Use DMA.

Bob,

this is what it shows on the settings tab of the Primary IDE channel

Device 0
Device Type -auto detection (cant be changed)
transfer mode-dma if available(can be changed to pio)
current transfer mode-PIO mode (cant be changed)

Device 1
Device type-auto detection (can be changed0
Transfer mode-DMA if available (can be changed to pio)
current transfer mode-not available(cant be changed)

What do I do ?

wired

 

[brain_wired]

Bob,

this is what it shows on the settings tab of the Primary IDE channel

Device 0
Device Type -auto detection (cant be changed)
transfer mode-dma if available(can be changed to pio)
current transfer mode-PIO mode (cant be changed)

Device 1
Device type-auto detection (can be changed0
Transfer mode-DMA if available (can be changed to pio)
current transfer mode-not available(cant be changed)

What do I do ?

wired

Bob,

I updated the primary ide channel driver and rebooted and lo
everything is fine now. the current transfer mode for device 0 is now
ultra dma mode 5 and now when i open applications while playing music
there is no more stuttering, there is no more cpu loading and the
machine also boots faster !! Thank you very much for your input,
really appreciate it. But i also wonder why it happened in the first
case.

wired

 

[Bob I]

Bob,

I updated the primary ide channel driver and rebooted and lo
everything is fine now. the current transfer mode for device 0 is now
ultra dma mode 5 and now when i open applications while playing music
there is no more stuttering, there is no more cpu loading and the
machine also boots faster !! Thank you very much for your input,
really appreciate it. But i also wonder why it happened in the first
case.

wired

When you have hard drive errors, the system will "drop back" to PIO to
keep using the drive. If you find this happening more often, I will
suggest you get the diagnostic utility from the manufacturer of the hard
drive and test it.

 

[Rock]

Nice catch Bob.

When you have hard drive errors, the system will "drop back" to PIO to
keep using the drive. If you find this happening more often, I will
suggest you get the diagnostic utility from the manufacturer of the hard
drive and test it.

 

[Bob I]

Thanks.

Nice catch Bob.