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I have been doing a little upgrading of my granddaughter's Gateway Performance
500. I replaced the sound card and the video card and did a clean install of
Windoze XP. Here are the new specs.
Gateway Performance 500
Intel WS440BX, Intel82440BX chipset
Intel P-3, 500MHz
384 Mb PC-100 Sdram(Micron)
MSI Geforce4 MX-440 AGP8X 64mb
Viewsonic VPA 145 LCD Monitor
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz SonicFury
WD40 hardrive on TXT2 Ultra ATA-133 Controller
Matshita DVD 32X(Panasonic)
Philips CDRW 2x
Instant wireless PCI Card
WAN PPP/SLIP Interface
200-Watt 3.3-Volt LP Power Suppy with 700ma Revision 7
Now the problem is that the sound during MP3 and cdr playback is stuttering.
It's kind of a vibrato skipping sound that also occurs sporadically when
accessing the hard drive or just net surfing. It appears that something is
causing a conflict.
I have disabled the serial ports in the bios and removed an unused modem but
Windoze keeps assigning IRQ 5 to the Promise card, sound card and the wireless
pci card, even after moving the soundcard to another slot. IRQ 2, 7 and 10 are
unused and 3 & 4 are assigned to the com ports. I have also loaded the lates
nvidia drivers and the drivers for the nic card and the Santa Cruz are correct
for xp.
This machine was running 98 before this and P&Play is enabled in the bios.
Should I disable this? Can anyone offer some advice or a suggestion. Other than
this problem all seems to be going very well with the rest of the upgrade. No
errors in DM or in the system events.
TIA, Ed
500. I replaced the sound card and the video card and did a clean install of
Windoze XP. Here are the new specs.
Gateway Performance 500
Intel WS440BX, Intel82440BX chipset
Intel P-3, 500MHz
384 Mb PC-100 Sdram(Micron)
MSI Geforce4 MX-440 AGP8X 64mb
Viewsonic VPA 145 LCD Monitor
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz SonicFury
WD40 hardrive on TXT2 Ultra ATA-133 Controller
Matshita DVD 32X(Panasonic)
Philips CDRW 2x
Instant wireless PCI Card
WAN PPP/SLIP Interface
200-Watt 3.3-Volt LP Power Suppy with 700ma Revision 7
Now the problem is that the sound during MP3 and cdr playback is stuttering.
It's kind of a vibrato skipping sound that also occurs sporadically when
accessing the hard drive or just net surfing. It appears that something is
causing a conflict.
I have disabled the serial ports in the bios and removed an unused modem but
Windoze keeps assigning IRQ 5 to the Promise card, sound card and the wireless
pci card, even after moving the soundcard to another slot. IRQ 2, 7 and 10 are
unused and 3 & 4 are assigned to the com ports. I have also loaded the lates
nvidia drivers and the drivers for the nic card and the Santa Cruz are correct
for xp.
This machine was running 98 before this and P&Play is enabled in the bios.
Should I disable this? Can anyone offer some advice or a suggestion. Other than
this problem all seems to be going very well with the rest of the upgrade. No
errors in DM or in the system events.
TIA, Ed