What am I missing here......

[downhiller80]

I had a perfectly functioning computer.

Then it died, as they do.

So now I've reinstalled windows 2000, for the first time in about 2 years.

And as such I'm out of date of the whole installing an operating system thing.

Installed windows 2000, then geforce drivers, then creative drivers (live! platinum) then via 4-in-1 drivers, then winamp.

now in winamp my sound is cack whenever the computer does anything. Stutters terribly.

NEVER had this problem before. I've tried the various different "output" options in winamp and none seem to make any difference?

- seb

system:

amd 1400
asus a7v
westerndigital 1200jb
creative geforce 2 gts
creative live! platinum
netgear ethernet
mri conexant pci adsl "modem"

 

[downhiller80]

Getting the latest direct-x at the moment, though i doubt that'll make any difference.

 

[ghosty]

well your music is being stopped because your interupting it by doing something else.. loading a program.. whatever it may be.. How much ram do you have?

 

[downhiller80]

512mb

I had no problems on my last install. But since I've started from scratch it's all fecked.

I've noticed that it's not just winamp, all sound gets screwed up. So it's soemthing misbehaving (and taking all of my CPU %) or a bad sound driver.

Just got to figure out what.....

 

[KingofFah]

Try another application to play the music. Weird thing happened to me. My music started stuttering all of a sudden in XP Pro. I did not like XP Pro anyways, so I decided to install 2kpro. Same thing, but only in Winamp. You can change its priority to any setting, same thing. All other players work fine. Audigy card.

 

[dmk11]

double check the sound drivers..
maybe reinstall it or something..

I remembered my computer was playing songs ever-so-slightly faster than the correct tempo and it was because i had wrong drivers.

 

[downhiller80]

Well I downloaded the newest drivers from www.creative.com. I think the problem may lay with them, not sure what version I was using on the previous install.

KingofFah: nope, it happens to all audio, not just winamp.

 

[SandLizard]

since you just reinstalled, i doubt this is the problem, but it's something to try:

1- remove the sound card
2- boot computer, make sure there is no software or drivers installed anymore for that card
3- put card back in (possibly in a different slot...could it be an IRQ conflict? Check the Hardware Manager)

um, that's really all I could think of. and I don't think to often, so i hope it helps....

-sandlizard

 

[downhiller80]

No conflicts shown.

The card is sharing IRQ 9 with loads of other stuff, but that's normal for ACPI windows 2000 isn't it.

I've just noticed that the card is shown as an "sb live! value" in the device manager, when in fact it's a platinum. I wouldn't be surprised if this is normal behaviour though - could someone check their device manager for me?

- seb

 

[RustyNale]

Originally posted by: sebfrost
Installed windows 2000, then geforce drivers, then creative drivers (live! platinum) then via 4-in-1 drivers, then winamp. "

Here's the order that works best when installing a sound card:
Win2k, via 4in1's,sp3, video, network, sound card, winamp. If possible, load just the drivers for you sound card, test. If the sound is ok, then load any extras that came with it.

I'd do like SandLizard suggested: remove the creative, remove the drivers and any other application that you loaded with it. Reboot. When windows detects the card, let it only load the drivers for it. test. If all is well, continues loading extra goodies.

 

[Maqo]

This is actually a known issue with the SB Live! family of cards and that chipset. I had the same problem with an X-gamer card on an Abit KT-7 using Win98 / Win2K.

Although ACPI will take over the BIOS-assigned IRQ's (which you can't prevent unless you disable ACPI), I found that by re-arranging my PCI cards I was able to eliminate the problem. Try to find documentation for your board that states which PCI slots will share IRQ's; even though ACPI will re-assign them there is some degree of sharing at the physical layer that can be overcome.

For example, make sure your soundcard and network cards are never on the same IRQ. As an easy test, remove all your PCI cards and try each slot to determine which gives you clean sound. Hope this helps!

 

[foofoo]

hi,
this may help. i've noticed that cd-drives and some hds are not automatically put into dma mode on w2k installs. check whether dma is enabled or not on your drives.
good luck

 

[hevnsnt]

very strange suggestion, but see if netmeeting is running in your system tray.. Looks like a little world.

 

[Stevem627]

There is a PCI latency patch for Via and it corrects a lot of problems like you are having. I'll be darned if I can find it at any source right now. If you can't find a copy I can send it to you.


Just found it...here's a link to a page for you.

George's PCI latency patch

 

[downhiller80]

Originally posted by: Stevem627
There is a PCI latency patch for Via and it corrects a lot of problems like you are having. I'll be darned if I can find it at any source right now. If you can't find a copy I can send it to you.


Just found it...here's a link to a page for you.

George's PCI latency patch

YES THAT sounds familiar.... on the look for it now!