Choppy Sound

[htcs]

I need Help!

Whenever i play any audio or video, my sound is choppy. It almost sounds like static.

Here's what i've got:

AMD Athlon XP (1.7 Ghz) (yeah i know... falling behind)
640 MB RAM
XP Pro SP2

Was using the On-Board audio card, since then i've disabled that in the BIOS and installed a SB PCI 128, the problem still continued.

So then i reformatted my computer (it was time for a spring cleaning anyway) and it's still doing the same thing! So today i picked up a Sound Blaster Live! from the junk box at work - installed it and yet again ... the problem is still here.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help.

Thanks

 

[Osiris]

Did you try unhooking your speakers, all wires etc and reinstalling them?

 

[htcs]

I know its not the wires... it only happens when you start an application or the system becomes busy.

 

[EricB]

is your hard drive on a raid setup?

 

[htcs]

No it's not on a raid. I have a 200GB Western on IDE1: Master and a Maxtor 120GB on IDE1:Slave, An LG DVD RW on IDE2:Master and an LG 52x32x52x CDRW on IDE2:Slave.

A bit more info: The sound comes out as if its 'coming from a robot' - or the crappy service that Rogers Wireless has around here! LOL

 

[Blitze105]

if its only when you open something then it is because of your cpu. basicly not much you can do... mine does the same thing when i open Word

 

[EricB]

try slowing down the hardware acceleration in sound settings

 

[htcs]

Tried turning down the acceleration as you mentioned. Seems to have made a slight difference. I've set it to one step above emulation (i think it's set to basic).

Thanks for the advice!

 

[EricB]

no problem

 

[Crysalis]

it sounds to me like IRQ conflicts. Check your BIOS to see if everything is on a separate IRQ channel.

Another thing that MAY help is putting your sound card away from every other card in your computer. I had this problem on an old system with probably the same card you had (SB 128) and moving it away from all other cards did help.

I dont know why, but sometimes computers get confused if you have a network card and sound card... they get the IRQ settings mixed up and it causes the problem you are having.

I don't know if this will help you any because there are alot of reasons that you computer could be doing that... you just have to troubleshoot things one at a time.