Sound Slows Down And Stutters

[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!

 

[oakes]

Are your on-board sound drivers up to date ? Do you have the correct XP
drivers for it ?
If not visit the mother-board website.

It might be worthwile as an experiment, installing a sound card and
disabling the on-board
stuff (in the BIOS).

Your system could also load too many resources at start-up. Do a trojan
check.

Cheers,
Jerry

| 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!