Slow Down In Multimedia Performance

[Vik]

I have recently installed Windows XP Pro on a clean hard
drive but im experiencing some sound and performance
problems.

Everytime I play a sound, be it an MP3, .Wav file etc.
the sound stutters and slows down. It doesnt matter
whether its in Winamp or Windows Media 9. Video files
pause and skip too.

Another thing I have noticed is that whenever I load up
Winamp or WM9, the mouse pointer skips and stutters
across the screen too- meaning there is probably some
sort of performance issue at the heart of this.

All my drivers are up to date- and there are no conflicts
whatsoever. I ran Sandra Diagnostics on my computer and
it did state that my "IOQD" level was set too low and by
putting my motherboard to its "optimised" level it should
resolve the problem. My BIOS is now set to "optimised"
but still no difference to the sound and performance
problem!

I have a P3 800, 384mb RAM, A 20GB Master and a 80GB
Slave Hard Drive and 64mb AGP GeForce 2. My Soundcard is
on-board (C-Media 8738)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Rich Barry]

Are you using a Intel or Via chipset Motherboard?

 

[Vik]

Im using a Via Chipset. Motherboard is in fact an ECS
P6BAP-A+ , but their website isnt updated that much.
(www.ecs.com.tw)