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I have Windows 98 and have onboard sound. ie a VIA AC97 chip. The problem is that the sound in some games is choppy and stuttering(Half Life works, Phantom Menace-Stutter!).
I have tried various drivers to no avail.
According to Device manager and System Info there are no conflicts (though I know they lie sometimes).
Any advice..? Apart from buying a real soundcard...
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hello all
a week or so ago my sound on my pc became crackely and stuttering , i first noticed it while useing flight simulator , i thought it would be related to that but i get the same problem in windows media and div-x .
i have a build in sound on my ASUS P4S8X-X MOTHERBOARD , I have the up to date drivers and the soundMAX audio control package ( that came with the motherboard ) installed , i have 5.1 souround sound speakers ,
i have tried swaping cables around , different speakers , different settings on the control panel ,etc , no use
one other thing , i tried to use a voice control system for the flight sim (voice buddy ) and i could not get the mike to work or pick up my voice no matter what i did in settings ,
it may not be relevent but it all worked fine before i did a reinstall a few weeks ago with a bigger hard drive
runing XP with service pack 2
any help gratefully recived , the pc is hopless without sound
thank you
Try uninstalling Voice Buddy. If the sound is OK, then you know it was either a corrupt install of Voice Buddy or a setting in the program needs tweaked
I'm having problems with my sound, i am getting a stuttering sound more and more frequently when watching videos online/dvds.
I have tried going into the device manager and updating my drivers in the sound section, but apparently they are up-to-date. Really don't know what to do next!
I have a Toshiba laptop, satellite series. I've had no joy on that website with support. I am using Windows 7.
Any ideas?!
Hmm well first of all Id make sure that you are experiencing this problem while watching dvds as well as online. The reason I say this is because if its just online it could be bandwidth and if its just the dvd, it could be the damaged media.
Assuming you are consistently having sound issues watching videos online and via dvd my first guess would be overheating.
Do you have the ability to play sound files without issues? Is the problem only with video?
about a month ago what at first I thought alone was my CD player.. any CD or DVD I played the sound seemed to stutter..the DVD visually were fine but sound was bad. but If I play anything from my windows media player its all fine or listening to any music online is fine too...until the other day I put in a cd full of pix and the music I was listening to online started to stutter. also windows media will not let me burn any CDs and was then burning cd's with roxio now that doesnt work or just takes for ever...is this all connected?? please help ..at my wits end and do not have the time or money to take my pc in..
It sounds like you have too much running it the background and it is choking the system while you are multi-tasking. It is normal to get a hiccup in sound while reading a CD as the ATAPI interrupt halts the entire system temporarily, but not like you are describing. You can resolve your issues through two means:
a) Uninstall unnecessary and superfluous software that you don't use or arn't really required for proper operation, check the bottom right hand corner and see how many programs you have running in the tray, if there are lots then you should do some cleansing. To uninstall in Windows XP go to Start, click on Control Panel, now click on "Add / Remove Programs". To uninstall in Windows Vista go to Start, click on Control Panel, now click on "Programs and Features".
b) You could disable some software from starting up with Windows instead of getting rid of it completely by going to Start, clicking on Run (or holding down the Windows Key on the keyboard and pressing R) and typing "msconfig" without the ". On the second to last tab labled "Startup" you can untick the entries to stop them from starting with Windows, make sure you don't disable anything critical though!
c) Reinstall Windows with a fresh copy and rid yourself of the OEM c*ap that comes with most PCs.
Hopefully you should be able to get the amount of background processes down by removing unneeded software, you can check how many processes are runnin... Read more
Welcome to TSG!
Try this:
Go into control panel
"Sounds and Audio Devices"
reduce the sample rate for the audio and see if that helps!
Hi there!
Im at my wits end with my sound problem on my new pc. Having just bought the new pc, i have found that performing any other task while listening to music causes the music to irregularily stutter or skip, like a scratch on a cd
It happens when using i.m. or a web browser, even when typing (in fact most frequently when typing)
I have tried upgrading both the audio drivers and video drivers. I use a memory optimiser program, and so i know that the free ram is almost never below 60%, so im farely certain RAM isnt the problem. The problem occurs on everything, from itunes and windows media player, to the audio from youtube videos.
Please help me solve my problem as its driving me crazy
Thanks in advance
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Hi folks,
Really hope someone can help me with this problem as it's driving me crazy.
The sound from my card is stuttering badly when I'm playing games etc. It appears to stutter badly when say FMV is playing or similair.
Here's my specs:
256Mb Ram PC133
SBlaster 128 PCI
32Mb PCI Riva TNT2 Graphics Card
50x CDROM
Win 2000
20Gb HD 5400rpm
I've eliminated the CDROM as the source of the problem, as when solely reading from the HD the problem still occurs.
Could the problem be being caused by the HD? Do I need a faster one?
Any help to solve this problem would be most appreciated.
Many Thanks,
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New user to windows 7! Everythign runs and works great minus the sound!!! It stutters and echoes very badly every so often. And being an avid player of Conan i use Vent. Vent does not even work. Any help provided is greatly appreciated!
Have you been to the Dell website and downloaded the latest drivers?8 more replies
Lately I've been having issues with my sound for my PC. When I watch videos, listen to music, or play games the sound seems to keep stuttering at times. I just switched to another sound card instead of the built-in MB sound card but the problem still persists. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!
My PC Specs are as follows:
Intel i7-4770K Haswell
ASUS Maximus Hero VI Hero
G.Skill RipJaw 8GB Ram
Gigabyte GEForce GTX 770 4GB 256-Bit
Windows 10
I have the sound stutter problem when playing music, video and games. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a problem with windows media player. Any sound for me stutters every few seconds, sometimes its gone for a few hours and comes back. I have realtek drivers, the latest, and have tried old ones. Ive tried turning off exclusive mode and many other common tricks like changing quality etc.
Obviously I am looking for a fix but im afriad if i ask I will get nothing but all the home remedies that work for a while, or people think it works but the sound problem comes back. If someone had this problem and eliminated it I would love to hear how its done. However, I would like to also know the reason for the problem, does anyone know whats causing it? Maybe moderators or forum members that have seen this problem floating around. This is mainly to avoid the "Maybe your holding your phone to close" type responses from people who have not seen the problem before, that being said, any ideas are nice. This is obviously a windows 7 problem, maybe there is no good realtek drivers out yet, although i hear similar complaints about creative on w7 forums. does w7 handle sound differently. I'm afraid that this is actually a fundemental flaw in the operating system. Does anyone here have windows 7 rtm 64 bit with working sound??? If so do you have any unique sound settings/caching/memory settings?
Please, do not provide detailed system specs. They will not help at all. OK, go ahead and provide detailed system specs.
The problem with your assessment of a serious flaw in Windows 7 - not all users report or experience the same problem. There are some issues with RealTek though. All of which can be addressed.
Could also turn out to be an I/O issue or even CPU spiking. Can't begin the analysis until we have...
In your case, a detailed model number or service tag will work.
hi all.
when using media player the sound keeps stuttering towards the end of each track.
can anybody help? i have no idea why this keeps happening.
It seems like this problem has been famous since 2007...
So I just bought a new laptop, HP Pavillion nv9925nr. Specs are AMD Turion64 x2. ram is at 4gigs ddr2 667mhz. Nvidia Geforice 7150m and a Conexant High Definition Audio card (all this is onboard... dur)
Anyway, my problem is that every minute or so the sound stutters, all my drivers are updated, got all the windows update thrown in there, and it still does the stutter thing every minute or so. Is there any solution to this problem to save my sanity? Thanks : D
Hi TemperFire, welcome to the vista forums
No cure yet as far as I am Aware of...
Just the normal workaround
Right click the speaker icon in the tray select Playback Devices select your default output and on the enhancements tab Disable all enhancements.
Hopefully that should do the trick but if not try disabling all enhancements in the playback application (media player)
hope this helps
Recently, the sound on my computer started stuttering, and sounding all scratchy. Everything stutters, except midi files, which don't play at all. I'm using an integrated sound card, on an Intel D865GBF motherboard.
Thanks for any help!
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Hi, i just got a new pc and im having sound problems; basically every so often the sound sort of lags out and goes stuttery for about 1 to 5 seconds then resumes as normal. On the performance monitor cpu usage spikes up to 50-60% for the duration.
-Using logitech Z-10 speakers, got the latest drivers, and the problem occurs when im using different speakers also
-Running vistax64 on a pretty high-end pc, so really i shouldnt be running out of resources just to play sound.
-Bought a sound card, hoping to fix the problem, but its the same whether i use onboard sound or the card.
-The problem occurs in all applications, not just WM player
I think the problem is some kind of issue with data transfer and processing within the pc (whether its hard or software based i dont know). It appears to be only sound that displays lag/slowdown symptoms.
I tried sticking some music onto a flash drive and playing it from there, but again it stuttered so im guessing its not a hard drive issue.
Im really running out of ideas, so any help would be vastly appreciated
Sounds like a driver issue. What sound card and what on-board audio program are you using? There have been issues with Vista and or 64bit.
I have been having a problem that has been driving nuts.
Whenever I have hdd activity, My sound card stutters. It happens when I
play a game, listen to mp3's or view video files. All of my IDE drives are set
for DMA.
Here are the particulars of my system:
Asus P4T533-C motherboard
2.8 Ghz P4
1 gig rdram
120Gb Hitachi deskstar hdd
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer
Geforce 4 4600Ti w/128mb of vidram
Windows XP Home SP2
Any suggestions?
Try moving your soundcard to a different slot, also try disabling hyper-threading.
hi, I posted
here originally thinking I had a hardware problem - but a tsf team member brought up that it sounded like malware, so here I am....
since I ran these logs, I uninstalled Adaware, guessing that Adaware plus Kaspersky was the cause of a couple of hangs.
Brief history, this is an HP510 laptop 50G hard drive that we keep in the kitchen, as in my little kid bangs on it, spills a little on it etc. Also it shares a router with the babysitter's computer, whose protection status, where she surfs, etc are probably not as careful as mine. Otherwise
Hp510 laptop
WinXP Pro SP 3
Kaspersky, WinPatrol, (for a few hours yesterday Adaware now uninstalled )
rarely used in questionable places like a hotel room, Starbucks, otherwise I surf through a router using a limited account 99+% of the time.
For weeks, Kaspersky updates had been incredibly slow. Also for quite a while , not sure which started first, the laptop has been ...s.l.o.w... - for example sometimes I'll type in a website name and none of the characters will show for a good 15 seconds, then they'll all or some of them show up at once..
a few days back Kaspersky couldn't open, I downloaded a new version of Kaspersky - now has Kaspersky 2010 - on a different computer then installed it to this one off a USB drive (ie, no surfing during the time of no Kaspersky), then at restart it ran chkdsk -- found a couple of bad sectors.
not a lot... Read more
what Adaware said...17 more replies
Some time within the past week, all the audio I play on my HP PC started skipping and stuttering. Sometimes just a split-second pause, sometimes the machine-gun digital stutter. It doesn't matter if it's iTunes or streaming from my browser. I just downloaded and installed the latest driver from Realtek today; it made no difference. Please help! Thanks.
Maybe Mr Fixit can help
If he cannot, try a system restore. If that works, great. If not, it will give us a lead on the potential causes; since it is not the OS.
Tips for fixing common sound problems
System Restore - How to
when using media player the sound keeps stuttering towards the end of each track.
can anybody help? i have no idea why this keeps happening.
i have the same problem.
Hi - I'm new here, but what a great forum.
Heres hoping someone can help........
I have a Toshiba laptop with vista and the sound has finally given up. Its always been a bit clicky, but recently its got to the point where I can't listen to the media centre or use the i-player or youtube etc. It just stutters and seems to run slow. At first I thought it was my internet connection but now the media player does it, I'm thinking its the laptop. Its also doing the stutter when I just click on enter or back.
I have read on google that it may be the drivers for the realtek audio, but when I go to 'update driver' it says windows has detected the most up to date driver is installed.
If I need a new driver where do I get it ? and how do I install it ? I'm a real novice at all this !!
Please help.......
Download to your computer then go to device manager and update the driver again, but tell it to search your computer, it will ask you where point it to the downloaded file.
My sound stutters and sounds staticy at random for a month now whether I am playing a game, listening to music, or watching a movie on youtube. I have no clue what's causing this but I have noticed that my CPU is always on %50 percent plus or minus 5 and when I check my processes tab system idle process shows 98 to 99 while everything else is at 00. I have run a virus check and a spyware check and both came out clean. My computer is an HP Pavilion dv1000 Special Edition
Intel Pentium M 1.73GHz
1GB Ram
Conexant AMC Audio
Please help
No help?
Two drives, E: & F:. F works fine.
E: stutters continuously when playing an audio CD. There is no problem with data, .MP3 etc, graphics/photos, only with audio CDs.
Device Manager tells me the drivers are up-to-date. Rebooting doesn't help.
Drive is a TSST CDDVDW SH-S223C ATA. Sound is on-board.
[Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, 4GB RAM]
Any ideas?
Do you have another DVD drive you can swap in to see if the issue disappears?
Have you done a system restore to a date before the problem began to see if it disappears?
Any recent software additions or changes in configuration?
DVD drives are commodities now. I don't know how long they can be expected to last, but I understand your reluctance to assume it is a bad drive.
Any chance you were multi-tasking at the time and putting a good load on the processor while playing the CD?
Hey all,
As of yesterday the sound on my PC started "stuttering." It's the same stuttering that happened before if i was listening to music and opening a huge pdf (for example) or something of that nature. Now it's doing it all the time. I even notice it sometimes on the Windows startup sound.
Here are my computer specs:
Dell Dimension DIM3000
P4 2.8Ghz
768 MB Ram
SoundMax Audio Driver
It does it in bothe WMP and WinAmp
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Hello guys!
I just built a gaming pc for my girlfriend, the specs are:
AsRock Motherboard
8Go Ram
Intel Core Duo @ 3,00Ghz.
Her computer runs a lot of games on high with no problem, but the game she likes the most: Plants VS Zombies: Garden Warfare, has some problem.
It runs perfectly, with no frame drop or anything and then, all of the sudden, the game would freeze for about a second or two, with the sound looping. After the freeze, the game would resume running perfectly.
This happens a not precise moment, even in the menus. I've tried a lot of thing, but nothing seems to work.
Thank you very much!
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Hi all, Has anyone had an issue with sound stuttering? Listen to the clip below and please let me know if you have a solution. https://youtu.be/oNv9XzgLUgw (opens new window) I've had this problem for a while now but do not remember it being so bad on Windows 7. ZachMore replies
Hi everyone. So my audio is stuttering every minute or so. It runs fine and then on random intervals it stutters for a second and then carrys on like normal. Its getting a bit annoying, I have only recently done a fresh install and re installed drivers. Only a month ago my RAM was faulty I did a memtest and I sent it back and got replacement. That issue is fine now. Now its just this audio..
So I've disabled all sound devices except the one that works. Closed any THX programs or anything like that. set my speakers to headphones and still no change. It happens with videos and games, everything really. I don't notice a stutter in the video side of things.
Any help would be much appreciated! DXDiag attached.
i5 3570k
Asrock z77 Motherboard Extreme - M
Onboard audio Realtek sound
Windows 7 64 bit
I've recently installed a Gamesurround Hercules Fortissimo 2 sound card to solve my stuttering problem, but it's made no difference. Basically, as i play games the sound will stutter at the same time there is a graphic slowdown, only very brief but annoying.
My system is a fairly high spec (512 DDR, AMD XP 2600, Geforce4 Ti4800SE) so i'm thinking that i should not have these kinds of problems. Can someone please help?
Have you make sure that you have installed the newest driver? Older driver sometimes tend to be buggy.
When my system starts up the start-up sound has gone & the first time the next system sound is generated [i.e. a click when you start exporer] this repeats continuously..... like a dripping tap.
Naturally this is very annoying and inhibits the playing of all audio/video.
My hardware configuration hasn't changed in a year and everything is [was] working fine.
When I reinstall - it works fine. It looks like it's something that's come off the net, after the third/fourth re-start [i.e. system restarts after installing software after reinstall] it appears yet again.
I connect through a cable modem and have anti-virus/firewall software. I don't have a router at the minute - but didn't experience this problem when I did.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is it a windows error/virus? And..... most importantly of all.... how do I fix it?
Many Thanks,
- Rog
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Just very recently watching videos such as the weather forecast etc. the pictures and sound are hopelessly out of sync. How do I correct this please?
Hello Rob.
Try updating your sound card driver and your video card driver by doing a quick google search with your computers make and model.
example: "google search > "HP Pavilion g6 drivers"
When my system starts up the start-up sound has gone & the first time the next system sound is generated [i.e. a click when you start exporer] this repeats continuously..... like a dripping tap.
Naturally this is very annoying and inhibits the playing of all audio/video.
My hardware configuration hasn't changed in a year and everything is [was] working fine.
When I reinstall - it works fine. It looks like it's something that's come off the net, after the third/fourth re-start [i.e. system restarts after installing software after reinstall] it appears yet again.
I connect through a cable modem and have anti-virus/firewall software. I don't have a router at the minute - but didn't experience this problem when I did.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is it a windows error/virus? And..... most importantly of all.... how do I fix it?
Many Thanks,
- Rog
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After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 my sound is stuttering/making 'electrical interference' noises. I've been trying to solve this with the Windows Troubleshooter and various other fixes but in the end I ran the HP Support Assistant and it upgraded the drivers to IDT High Definition Audio which is what everyone seems to be complaining about anyway. It just so happened I was offline when I first tried it with the newly installed IDT drivers and it was perfect so I thought I had cured it but as soon as I went online the stuttering and interference returned. I'm baffled why this should make any difference but it means it still isn't cured. Anyone any ideas please?More replies
I have an ongoing problem when listening to music or watching videos. Everything becomes fragmented and the sound and video will stutter.
On two occasions when listening to music (via windows media player) the stuttering got so bad that the media player froze and i got the blue screen of death and it started to do a physical memory dump.
I have Kaspersky running......and i have also ran Mbam; superantispyware; Tdss killer; dpc latency checker and they found nothing out of the ordinary.
I downloaded Vlc and ran videos via that but they still stuttered.
The problem seems to be getting steadily worse and the rest of the computer seems to be slowing up with programs taking a long time to load or not loading at all.
The browser now frequently will not respond.
Does anyone have any ideas?
My computer is: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook running windows 7 64bit sp1
Hi there, Welcome to Seven Forums.
In regards to your BSOD please follow the instructions here: http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html
Has this problem been happening ever since you bought that laptop? Or has it just started recently?
I recently changed my system from a dual cored system and upgraded to the following spec
AMD Phenom 9950 2.6ghz quad core
Asrock Alive Xfire motherboard
Corsair Extreme series SSD 32gb
Windows 7 Pro
ATI Radeon 5770 x2 in CrossfireX
Sony Blu Ray reader
Corsair Hydro series liquid cooling
250GB Seagate Baracuda
750w high powered PSU with four 19 amp rails.
It has Windows 7 professional 32 bit system freshly installed on it. But it has a major sound looping and slight video stutter to it.
So i installed an external usb sound card and disabled the onboard sound in the bios to combat the problem. This did not help one bit.
So i try and play a file from my external hard drive instead of playing a youtube video, hopefully to try and see if it was my connection. Again nothing.
Im not really that technologically minded and i know that this system is much better then what i was running before but this sound problem is really driving me mad. I never had this on my previous system.
The only differences i can see between a totally fresh install is that this has a wireless card installed and that it has Microsoft security essentials installed too. Perhaps i need to uninstall these?
Any ideas people as it is driving me mad.
Many thanks in advance.
When it is stuttering, what kind of RAM usage and processes do you see in Task Manager? What is eating up your CPU cycles and RAM--if anything? You might have something running in the background that you are unaware of, and that should show in the processes tab of Task Manager.
Have you tested your RAM or can you swap in other sticks?
MSI KM2M mainboard with on chip Realtek AC97 sound. Running Win98SE.
The sound "stutters" or echos, mainly within games but at other times also. I have all the latest drivers, DX9, etc.
I have another identical system that does NOT have this problem. A comparison between the two gives all the same info, drivers details, IRQ's, DMA, etc... I mean EVERYTHING shows exactly the same and yet this system stutters and the other one doesn't. HELP ! ! !
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Recently, graphics have been stuttering. Sound stutters too, but I'm pretty sure the sound only stutters, clicks, pops and slurs when the graphics are lagging. I cannot pinpoint the source of the problem.
I put thermal paste on my cpu today and brought my temperatures down from 77C to 57C.
Still same problem so doesn't appear to be from overheating.
These problems are across the board from mp3s to video to gaming. Also, it happens on all media players. Sometimes if I load a webpage while music is playing, it'll slowdown the music and make it stutter.
This problem happens even with no other background things running. Directx tests, everything stutters to different extents. Even the small white box in the directdraw test isn't smooth and goes slow, fast, slow fast. In between direct x tests, parts of my taskbar temporarily vanish and then come back, suggesting a lot of cpu power or memory is being used. Is there a good program to test if my installed ram has become faulty?
My system is XP2000+, 768ram, and 9800pro 128mb.
I also noticed that cpu usage goes straight from single digits to 100% when dxdiag starts, and it goes to 100% when quake 3 starts.
i would think its the 768 ram holding you back.
I would try running memtest once and see what it tells ya.
Also, look in either the registery or msconfig and see if theres anything starting that you don't recognize.
Hi all,
I have 2 XP machines, both dells, 1 a laptop (inspiron m140) the other a desktop (dimension b110) that distort all sounds playing if the computers are running or loading anything. It doesn't matter if it's music or a video saved to the machine or if it's something I'm streaming, it all gets distorted. It's to the point where I can't listen to music at all anymore without it stuttering constantly. I don't think it's a hardware issue as both machines didn't always do this and I've checked and updated the drivers. I believe this may be some reaction to a setting I've affected, but can't be sure.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much
Originally Posted by ItsBenBroughton
Hi all,
I have 2 XP machines, both dells, 1 a laptop (inspiron m140) the other a desktop (dimension b110) that distort all sounds playing if the computers are running or loading anything. It doesn't matter if it's music or a video saved to the machine or if it's something I'm streaming, it all gets distorted. It's to the point where I can't listen to music at all anymore without it stuttering constantly. I don't think it's a hardware issue as both machines didn't always do this and I've checked and updated the drivers. I believe this may be some reaction to a setting I've affected, but can't be sure.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much
When is the last time you did a disk Defrag? it sounds as though there is a great deal of disk activity when you do anything, and that could be why your sound is getting distorted. You can check to see if it needs it. It will tell you whether or not it needs a defrag.
This is a weird issue I'm having. I did a restart and when I came back BF3 wasnt playing any sounds, which is weird because it was just working.
I went to make sure it wasnt muted in the mixer, and I see the weirdest thing.
The application "System Sound" is disapearing in and out very quickly, not only in the mixer but In devices as well
What can I do to fix it? Maybe reinstall w7 sound drivers?
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Recently I have experienced poor sound quality when I try to play an ordinary video clip on the internet. It is an on-off, sort of stuttering sound as if the sound was being reproduced before it had all been received. I checked my download speed at the time this occurred and it was 6.5 Mbps. My operating system is as follows:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 22.214.171.124
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+, x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1
Processor Count: 1
RAM: 1023 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 30147 MB, Free - 8176 MB; D: Total - 1984 MB, Free - 1873 MB; E: Total - 11989 MB, Free - 8562 MB; F: Total - 15986 MB, Free - 5198 MB; G: Total - 19992 MB, Free - 17404 MB; K: Total - 26288 MB, Free - 21068 MB;
Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC., A7V600-X
Antivirus: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled
Most common causes are the stream itself (either to high for your internet connection, or network congestion, or server congestion) or the media player (ie: Flash, java, etc.).
First step, update/reinstall the media player.
You also need to note the type of video. For instance, if you are streaming HD video, then you could simply be seeing a hardware lmitation (ie: your PC is too slow). This would be the case if your PC specs are accurate.
Open Task Manager and watch the cpu usage. If it is high (ie: 90% +), then you are likely seeing the limits of your hardware. You can switch to the processes tab to see which process is using the cpu.
Dell Inpiron 9400
Genuine Intel (R) Cpu
T2400 @ 1.83 Ghz
1.83 Ghz, 0.99 GB of RAM
I searched relentlessly for answers to this question but couldn't find a resolution that worked for me.
Starting just yesterday (Sunday, Nov 4) I noticed that any audio I tried playing, be it mp3, wav, etc. in any media player came out distorted, with a stutter... video/games of any kind also stutter on approximately a 2 second loop. If I move the mouse around the screen, it will skip on this same loop.
Right now, with FireFox opened, Task Manager tells me that I'm running at 51% cpu usage (64 processes). I've tried closing unnecessary programs, to try and find a particular program causing the problem, but nothing is helping.
I've tried about every suggestion I've seen in other threads; I've messed with DMA settings, disabled/re-enabled my audio driver (Sigmatel High Def), checked my spyware detector for a memory capture settings, run a spyware check, scanned for viruses, and defragmented and still am having the same problems.
Any help? I'm a bit of a novice here, so be sure to give me step by step instructions.
Thanks in advance.
I have the same problem and it started about the same time - I receive Windows autoupdates.6 more replies
Sorry for the weird title, i don`t really know what the problem is..
First, the stuff that`s happening:
- while playing any game, there`s a lot of stuttering in the fps. And every second or 2, the screen freezes for a like half a second, and the sound crackles and stutters.
So it`s like, fps stutter -> freeze for half a second with audio crackle -> fps stutter -> etc. ( i hope that makes sense! )
- i`m pretty sure that audio crackle happens when the cpu load is high, because it`s not limited to games. If i`m watching a video or listening to music, and do something like open a folder or another application, the audio also stutters for a second. It even happens in the windows welcome screen!
Also, i monitored the cpu usage while playing. it`s around 50% during the game, and and there are spikes to 100% at each of the audio stutters.
- sometimes, the games crashes to desktop with the "display driver has stopped responding and has recover" error.
- Also sometimes when i boot up the PC, the screen stays black before the welcome screen, and then i get the nvlddmkm BSOD.
This all started suddenly, and i have no idea what caused it.
The important thing is, that problem started 3 months ago, it lasted for around 4 days, and then went away, and i have no idea what fixed it. And it came back yesterday.
Here`s the stuff i tried so far:
-reinstall windows.
-different GPU, and sound drivers.
-disable Lan card.
-disable sound card. (of course when i do this i do... Read more
Oh, i forgot to add my specs.
[email protected], XFX 9800GTX+ 512MB, 2x2GB DDRII, Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
It is taking about 4 minutes to boot my laptop. Is there anything I can do to speed the boot up and generally get a little better performance out of my machine? I realize this isn't a state of the art machine but it seems to be getting slower.
I have attached a hijack log. Any help of what to delete would be greatly appreciated.
HP Pavillion Z1000 Notebook
AMD 1.3 ghtz Athlon XP
30 Gig HD
17 Gig Free
240 Meg Memory
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Hi all, So as stated my pavilion g series notebook/laptop has a annoying buzz / stuttering sound whilst playing audio, if its Spotify or Youtube the sound always is like this, even if its with headphones, or without. The laptop is quite old however is working in other areas and is quite fast, and I really would like the sound to work! Regards, arkjarvisMore replies
One winxp based systen having P4 processor, 512 ddr ram, cd-rw, cd-rom and 2 hdd (80+80 Gb), has this peculiar problem. When we playing songs it stutters and breaks as if the system running low on ram or using lot of processor power. When system is formatted, everything runs o.k for few days and even months, but again the problem comes up.
Can anyone help??
dunno d00d...how often do you defragment your drive?
and what specific media player are you using?..if it by chance is the internal LW player then that's the problem as it sucks....
Hi Guys hope you can help as you have done in the past for me. my Toshiba satellite p20 is freezing up the sound and video playback is stuttery as well as mouse movement. I think that as this is rather an old laptop, its nearing its end but i also think that as i have a lot of processes running in the background that i have no idea what they do, hese may be my problem.I have an external 500g hard drive connected at all times. i run mozilla with ABP running and have done a full scan using esset antivirus( which detected 2 probs and deleted them) and have run Super anti spyware full clean with clear report. i have run hijackthis and have pasted the result. i also went to copy the minidump files in windows but the folder is empty. please help if you can guys. thank you in advance.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 23:52:50, on 22/02/2010
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP3 (6.00.2900.5512)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Seagate\Basics\Service\SyncServicesBasics.exe
C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
C:\Program Files\Belkin\Bluetooth Software\bin\bt... Read more
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I have a serious sound sluttering / input lagging problem (again). I had the problem months ago, the "evil" is back. Don't know, what solved my problem last time, so I have absolutely no idea, how to solve it. I can't listen to music on my PC. (Even with low CPU usage and low HDD activity. It just drives me crazy. Sometimes, the sound stutters for 0.5-2 seconds! Which mean, my keyboard does nothing, my mouse does nothing, then it works again. It happens like in every 5-30 minutes, it is totally random, if the computer has higher load, it is often, but sometimes, with 2-8% CPU usage this happens.
Samsung HDD (160GB): 38?
Western Digital Caviar Green (250GB): 31?
Intel Pentium D 925 both cores: 41 C?
GPU: ASUS Radeon HD 2600XT core temperature: 30?
(These temperatures are the current ones, and there was so many lags while I wrote this post.)
I'm a little bit suspicious about Netlimiter. Can Netlimiter cause that problem? (I'll uninstall, curious about the result.)
Netlimiter3 has been removed, problem NOT solved, I'm frustrated a little bit, I'm out of ideas.
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Alright, I've got some weird problems. First of all, I'll describe my system:
Intel Extreme Series D975XBX2 Motherboard
Q6600 Quad Core 2.4 GHz Processor
4GB DDR2 Corsair RAM
256 MB DDR3 8600GT Graphics Card
Vista 64 bit OS
Here is the problem(s) I am having:
1) Audio stutters every 30 seconds or so for about 3-4 seconds.
- I've tried updating BIOS, but I get the same "Internal Error" type message everytime, even though it's the correct version that's supposed to be compatible with Vista 64.
- I've tried updating the audio drivers. The only driver that worked was the version that's about 2 releases old because the newer versions all had random errors and didn't work with Vista (even though they said they were supposed to).
- I thought if I turned off some advanced audio processing features it would fix the problem, but I can't get Intel Audio Studio installed because it says "This is not the correct driver for this sysetem" even though it IS.
2) BIOS refuses to update, saying "There is an internal error" or something along those lines. I looked up that error message in Intel's readme and it said it's due to a lack of hard drive space--but I have 450 GB free!
- An interesting thing I've noted during boot is that it says "No hard drive is detected!" when going through it's RAID check. I'm not set up for RAID, so I'm not even sure why it does this check. But, I think this could be causing the BIOS update error-... Read more
Has anybody else had this happen to them???
I am having the EXACT same problem. My machine has two (2) Quad Core Xeon 3.0 w/ 4GB RAM. We shouldn't be having stuttering audio...
Recently on playback of MP3's, videos, anything, the sound stutters every so often, the CPU usage can be at 0-1% when running foobar, or 1by1, or any other media player, and nothing else (nothing in the background anywhere) and still stutter, I don't understand it, before my sound worked fine, this is a new motherboard (approx 3 months old), its a Biostar NF61S Micro, using the onboard Realtek HD audio, Geforce 6600 PCI-express card, PCI 1x SATA RAID card (with 2 hd's running in raid0) and one sata drive single on the onboard nvidia sata controller (just going into detail here so people can help me figure it out) I'm running Windows XP x64 bit edition (I was running XP Pro 32bit for a while, didn't have the problem initially then it popped up just before I upgraded to x64).
I have no standard PCI cards installed, just my Geforce 6600 on the PCI-E x16 slot, and my SATA raid controller on the 1x slot, I'm using the onboard lan, I don't know why it stutters, but heres a list of things I've done so far to try and fix it:
I've defragmented my HDD, ran AV/Spyware checks, everythings clean, I disabled the onboard sound and I tried a different soundcard (albeit not a great soundcard, some cheap crystal soundcard that I had on hand, I do however know the card works as it works fine in other systems), I tried the soundcard in every PCI slot, no fix.
I also changed the DirectX acceleration on both the onboard and PCI card to try and ... Read more
So any ideas? And sorry for the double post and the long first post, I'd just like to get things solved so if anyone has any ideas please let me know, and thanks.
I'm running Win XP PRO..My other comp bit the dust so i have a used cheapie i bought..in most games I'll get an intermittent audio stutter every once in awhile that last a few seconds..I also believe a slight video hitch at time...Using a sound blaster audigy SE....Was doing it with onboard audio too...de fragged....stopped background programs from staring up...Put norton 2009 on silent mode...Not a resource hog like the old norton anyway....Went to a computer forum and nobody even answers this post so i guess they are stuck....cure this and I'll be your friend for life..
ps,,even played around with the paging file but not sure where to go there either
what are your computer specs and what games are we talking about.
Hi folks. As per the title, I am experiencing these issues regardless of selected card. The pops, stutters, etc occur regardless of CPU load and appear sporadically with no clear relation to a specific activity. I currently use a Creative Xmod, and while I did see the Creative thread, my problem exists regardless of chip, media player, etc. I replicated the problem on several other cards, Creative or otherwise. Of course it exists using the on-board sound.
The only thing I see that is out of sorts is that Windows does not offer a "stereo" option in the speakers config tab. 5.1 is the only available option. I am outputting to stereo. Would this setting cause conflict?
I'm running RC 7100 on ATI SB450. Driver was installed by Win via update, and is reported as correct. But that shouldn't be an issue with external cards?
It's driving me nuts! Any information or ideas are very, very welcome! Thank you!
Oops...forgot to add that speakers/amp, etc have been eliminated as a source of the problem.3 more replies
Decided to run this old laptop to my TV so that I could watch shows from online. When I connected using an HDMI cable the sound cuts in and out very bad. Thought the cable might be bad so I switched it out for a new high dollar cable but still has the same problem. Issue occurs both streaming and when testing using system sounds (such as "test" in the sound setup in device manager). Running Windows 10 (64-bit) and have installed all system updates and have tried updating the audio driver but it is saying I have the most up to date driver. Any help would be greatly appreciated.More replies
I recently just upgraded my Mobo/CPU as well as RAM/PSU. Only hardware I brought over to the new PC was my Hard Drive and Vid card. I'm having issues of certain games (Bioshock,Hellgate:London Demo, Dance Online) having major static/stuttering during all aspects of the games. Other games such as Team Fortress 2/Crysis Demo are not having the issues at all, and everything is perfect. I don't have a sound card, so I'm using onboard. Should I buy a sound card as well?
I'm wondering if this is a software issue with the games themselves, or if it is my system?
Mobo : EVGA nVidia 650i Ultra
CPU : Intel Core2 Duo E6750
RAM : Corsair XMS2 2GB
Vid Card : nVidia 7900 GS
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With regards to your problem, have you installed the latest nvidia drivers? Also, are you on windows xp or vista
Recently, I installed Civilisation 3 and Age of Empires 3 on the same day. One of these made me upgrade to Direct X 10 or something similar.
I think it was since this day that my sound plays in a stuttering way and the mouse is periodically jerky, so I guess they are connected.
What might this be? A hardware conflict? Or could the upgrade to Direct X 10 be the problem? Can I uninstall Direct X 10?
This is driving me nuts!
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I have an issue with my Windows 7 PC randomly stuttering. If I play a Youtube video or MP3 the sound will randomly stutter for a second and then go back to normal. If I'm playing a video game the sound will stutter along with the mouse and keyboard. It seems to be happening randomly and I am not able to figure out the culprit. When I check my system resources there is nothing straining the system. Windows is fully patched and I have updated my graphics and sound drivers. I had a secondary hard-drive that was failing which I thought might be the issue but even after replacing it with a new one the problem remains.
Is it a hardware issue or a software issue? How can I figure out what's causing it?
My system details:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
8 GB of RAM
200 GB of free space on the OS volume
Nvidia Geforce 9800GT
Hey there. I'm not sure what the problem is, but since yesterday, my laptop's sound & video keeps lagging..the whole time.
Yesterday i was djing on the laptop through a mixer..and then the sound disorted, like the speaker had been blown..if it's blown would it still be playing audio though? and could that be the reason for the lagging/stuttering? (that it's blown maybe)
here's a video of what i mean (since it would be a lot easier to explain)
Problem with laptop Audio/Video lagging/stuttering - YouTube
When windows starts, the greeting sound also does it..overall all the audio and video does
Hope you guys can help out (the video might be quite loud so i'd suggest turning down your volume a bit, it recorded pretty loud)
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I have a very odd problem. When i boot up my PC from being powered down, I get no sound at all through my realtek HD sound card. Not from any sources, mp3s, line in, web videos, etc.
Also when this is happening, when i play a flash youtube video, it stutters.
Nothing gets the sound back, not even disabling the sound card, etc.
So I then do a reboot of the PC and after the reboot everything works until i shut down the computer. The next day i turn it on and no sound. Reboot fixes it.
Anyone have this issue before?
*Edit, also wanted to add that i have updated to the latest Realtek driver off their website in hopes of fixing this issue with no luck. R2.70 dated 6/22/12
Windows 8 has a different power down sequence than other Windows Operating Systems. When you power off, its not really powered off completely. Its in a sort of hibernation state. Because it doesn't do a "normal" boot with the BIOS this could be your problem.
There is an option to correct this. Give this a try and see if it fixes or helps the problem.
With Windows 8, "off" isn't really off
I have audio stutterings since I foolishly tried to install windows 8.1 6 months ago, reinstalled windows 7 since I didn't have stuttering in that, still having the problem.
I have installed all drivers/updated bios and I am lost now.
EDIT: It stutters randomly, every once in a while
My specs are:
core: I7 - 2600K (unmoddified atm)
mobo: P8Z68-V
graph: GTX 560 TI (asus)
ram: 8gb
I also got an latencymon log: some screenshots included
I really hope that someone can help me with this, because it is driving me crazy, if I need to post anything else, I will gladly do so!
Thanks in advance
Try a linux live cd like ubuntu. Do you have stuttering in there?
If so, it is most likely a hardware issue.
Hey there. I'm not sure what the problem is, but since yesterday, my laptop's sound & video keeps lagging..the whole time.
Yesterday i was djing on the laptop through a mixer..and then the sound disorted, like the speaker had been blown..if it's blown would it still be playing audio though? and could that be the reason for the lagging/stuttering? (that it's blown maybe)
here's a video of what i mean (since it would be a lot easier to explain)
When windows starts, the greeting sound also does it..overall all the audio and video does
Hope you guys can help out (the video might be quite loud so i'd suggest turning down your volume a bit, it recorded pretty loud)
It happens in every player. windows media, vlc, quicktime..etc. Only installed dj software recently, but it was working perfectly for quite a while...until last night.
System restore?
Installed xp pro, sp3 after reformatting and removing vista, all went fine. But, now the sound is stuttering, slow and a little crackely. Weird, it actually sounds okay as long as i am not doing anything, but as soon as i start browsing the web or opening other programs, (especially run something like defrag) i get a bad stutter and the sound slows real bad. Tried EVERYTHING, i think. However,,this problem is on a toshiba L305. Everything else works great. I have tried different internet connections--doesn't matter, and it does it with ALL sounds--windows start-up, live streaming radio, music cd's, on or off line. And yes, DMA (direct memory access) is set right. I strongly believe my sound card and drivers are right, this seems like some sort of memory conflicting problem. But like I said,,,all else is fine. Weird!!
closing duplicate, please respond at http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/1036914-vista-xp-sound-problem.html. Please do not create duplicate threads about the same issue.
I have a c850 and have started having sound problems on audio playback which includes a random buzzing and stuttering of audio, I have updated all of my side drivers but the problem persists,
I have searched just about every link about similar problems on the web but to no avail, this problem only reared itself after I had to reset/recover my laptop. Any ideas??????
My computer is a pile of junk, or am I wrong? When I try to play video games such as Half:Life Counter-strike the video will slow down during gameplay and sort of 'stutter' like it will stop and then I'll end up in a spot where I should've been 20 or so seconds later.
For example:
In Counter-strike there are guns and explosions and what-not. I'm running up to a guy firing my AK when all of a sudden my screen begins to freeze and plays in SLOW MOTION. My sound is also going in SLOW MOTION , hearing the shots fired very slowly. When this is all over 20 or so seconds later I'm on the ground dead and the video/sound is back up to rate and is working fine. About two minuets later this happens agian...stops...agian...stops...agian.. and so on..
My sound can also get really choppy and won't play right during this. Gameplay is fine until about every 2 minutes this happens and it has always happened. When I first bought this computer it played CS fine... no problems at all, then I guess my stepdad did something to the computer maybe changed the drivers or something and it does this now. I really would like someone to help me on this. As I am completey boggled.
Anyone got any ideas? I'm not your average computer geek, so I'll need all the help I can get.
P.S: This also happens when I try play Nintendo games on my computer. The really old ones. I have emulators..ect
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Hello! Welcome to TechSpot
Judging by the specs:
Compaq Persario 5320 US
Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz
nVIDIA Vanta 16MB video card
Sound max on board sound
It appears to me that your comp is getting aged
for some of the games you like and the video 16mb
seems to be your bottle neck.
I'm certain it's been good to you just alittle outdated.
2 possible solution would be to upgrade the video card
to at least a 64mb or even better a 128mb.
The other is to consider a fresh machine (non-proprietary)
though I would try the video card Ugrade 1st.
Hello! I've been having issues with a problem for awhile now and figured i'd look for some help. The problem I originally thought happened only in games. The sound stutters and the visuals freeze, then nothing responds have to reboot. Replaced the HD because of this and still having issues. Happens notably on games like Civ V, or Empire: Total War. It happens in almost every game with one exception. Fable 3 will run for days with no issues. I noticed though that the PC will crash just sitting at the desktop if left on overnight with any program running. Ran memtest and had no failures. Any ideas?
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 184.108.40.206
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional , 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 4091 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 896 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 715302 MB, Free - 37287 MB;
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd., P55A-UD3, x.x,
Antivirus: AntiVir Desktop, Updated and Enabled
Dxdiag should be attached as well. Thanks!
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Hi all,
A couple of weeks ago I bought and downloaded a copy of the "Systweak Advanced system optimizer" and after using it to 'optimize' my system it instead screwed it up big time... now my sound crackles and stutters when I play all media, online or offline, dvds, youtube, games, etc...
Technical support from them didn't solve my problem, needless to say I've asked for( and gotten) a refund from them, but I'm still stuck with this annoying problem..I've tried the usual methods, such as rolling back drivers, uninstalling all the audio drivers (Nvidia and Realtek) restarting and letting Windows 7 reinstall them, all to no avail
My mother board uses integrated Realtek audio sound, I have been using win 7 with no sound issues since early 2010, and now this happens, I'm so frustrated, I hope someone can help me out with this..
Best to stay away from those Optimizer/Registry cleaners
Have you by chance tried a System Restore point to a date prior to installing that Optimizer program?
I have a c850 and have started having sound problems on audio playback which includes a random buzzing and stuttering of audio, I have updated all of my side drivers but the problem persists, I have searched just about every link about similar problems on the web but to no avail, this problem only reared itself after I had to reset/recover my laptop. Any ideas??????
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My daughter is having problems with the sound on her PC. Each time she plays a video or music the sound either stutterrs or pauses. We have tried Windows Help and updated her Windows Media Player yet the problems are still happening. She has a Windows XP Home Media Centre. Any suggestions would be greatly apppreciated.
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About a week ago I turned on my computer to find that the screen went blank after a certain point in the startup process (just before the desktop itself started loading). I called Dell technical support, the support agent determined the video drivers were at fault, and uninstalled and reinstalled them in Safe Mode, and the problem seemed to be resolved.
Shortly after getting off the phone with Dell I started up a game (Guild Wars 2), which told me my drivers were out of date. The video drivers the support agent had pulled from the Dell website were about three years old, so I went to the GeForce website and installed the 306.23 drivers. (For reference, I have two GeForce 9800 GT cards.) I began the installation, and halfway through the screen went blank, just like with the startup error. I let it sit for a while to see if the installation would complete, then rebooted manually. The computer restarted just fine.
Since then I have not had the blank screen problem, but my sound has been stuttering. How much it stutters fluctuates between "barely noticeable" and "occurs every two seconds", it seems to manifest most commonly in videos (both on my hard drive and online) but occurs with game audio and Windows sound effects as well. I have not seen any video lag accompanying the stuttering. I have uninstalled and reinstalled my video drivers again, this time without running into any issues, but that did not resolve it. I called Dell again, but they told me somet... Read more
Can you post the model of your Dell? When you installed your two GeForce 9800 GT cards do you upgrade your power supply unit? If not I believe the psu that came with the dell is very much under powered for your graphics cards. I recommend at least a 80+ rated 750-900 watts psu. And under powered psu if you did not upgrade to a more efficient one is why you are having problems that you are experiencing. The minimum for each card (wattage) is 400 watts you have two. Having one I recommend at least 550watt since you have two cards I would highly recommend 750-900 watt psu. 400 watts minimum means it will do put it's pushing it if you just have 1 card.3 more replies
I have this internal sound card in my system which more or less works as expected. However, there seem to be a few programs where the audio is stuttering/crackling. One is the PPSSPP emulator, another one is Beepola cross-tracker; I suppose there might be more of them which I haven't found yet.
Now I've noticed a weird pattern in that with both of these programs, the sound only comes out distorted if there's NO hard disk activity. If say I try to unzip a large archive, copy some files or simply view the properties of a folder with lots of files/subfolders, the audio becomes OK as long as the hdd is busy.
Here's why I think it must be sound card related: I've been using an 'external' SB Live card until recently and never had this problem, at least I know for a fact that Beepola used to work just fine all the time (regarding PPSSPP, I haven't tried it with SB Live but from the fact that the stuttering is similarly alleviated when the hdd is active I assume it has to be the same issue). It can't be CPU either I believe because taskbar shows minimal activity in both cases.
The PC is rather old: ASUS P5Q3 motherboard, Intel Core 2, Windows XP. Realtek drivers are of version 184.108.40.20659 downloaded from ASUS, so it's not the latest version but the latest one has this issue as well.
Some things I've tried:
- Measuring latency with DPC Latency Checker: didn't show anything suspicious, with mostly low values of 5-25 in the green
- Checking for a possible IRQ conflict: "Microsoft... Read more
Problem description: Something is seriously going wrong with my computer. I've been using Ableton Live (A digital audio workstation for creating music), and usually I have absolutely no problems whatsoever. However, I decided to look through some old songs that had VST plugins I uninstalled, and when I started doing this the audio start to slow down intensely. I'm running all audio on the DAW through a Line 6 UX2. So, I decide to restart my computer. However, it wouldn't turn on at all. After about an hour of poking around inside the computer, airing it out and cleaning the dust, it finally miraculously turns on. However, now the audio problem has spread to my other soundcard, an HTO Striker Omega. Whenever I watch a video or listen to something, if I do a task that requires a remote amount of processing power, everything slows down and gets extremely choppy, starts crackling or popping, or the sound stutters. This happens on Winamp, VLC, and any other program that uses sound. Seriously, since today I can't listen to a song in Winamp without hearing stuttering if I change tabs in Firefox. It especially happens when I'm listening to something and I click on things in the control panel. Also, Ableton has become completely unusable. I can't listen to anything without hearing about 5 seconds worth of noise for every 1 second of music. It's absolutely frustrating, and I need to fix this soon because I have some incredibly urgent projects I need t... Read moreMore replies
I recently reinstalled my Vista Home Premium 32bit. Everything seems to work, except the sound. It's choppy, distorted and crackling when I listen to music, watch videos or play games.
The peculiar thing is, that when I enter full screen mode in either a game or a video, the sound becomes normal and I also my FPS in video games also goes back to the normal 60-120 it was with the last installation.
I have a C-Media sound driver and ATI HD 4600 series graphics card. Both should be running latest drivers, AFAIK.
Any help would be appreciated.
Just wanted to check- have you installed SP1, SP2 and all subsequent updates?
What is the driver designation for the C-media audio?
Ok i dont know if this is windows 7 related or hardware or what but heres the deal:
I've had this gaming pc for about 2 years and ever since ive gotten it, it seems to freeze and/or restart at weird times.
at first i thought it was over heating so i got a better heat sink and some top shelf thermal paste, took the side panels off and added a huge box fan to the side and put it next to an air conditioner.
still happened... so its not a heat thing i dont think.
and what confuses me the most is that it does it when performing simple tasks but now when performing complex ones.
i play a highly graphical video game for 5 hours = no problem
i watch a youtube video = sometimes freezes and the audio will "stutter" or shut off or both OR none.
i host a game server, or 2, play a game and my room is 85 degrees = no problem.
i play a flash game for 10 minutes in a 65 degree room = freeze and sound stutter and/or restart.
also i have tried completely cleaning all of the hardware and removing dust and i have tried reformatting the harddrive and starting over.
no matter what i try, same problem.
What is the make, model and Wattage of your PSU? Boot into Setup (Bios) to PC Health, report the temperatures, and the +12V line of the PSU.9 more replies
I was wondering if anyone found a solution for a high latency issue with intel's ethernet drivers and windows 10 which results in ndis.sys driver producing stuttering? It's a known issue which became worse with the release of windows 10 and apparently the only solution so far is to use older drivers which only work on windows 7 and 8.
Basically whenever i download something big and or use the internet connection for several hours the ethernet adapter starts producing latency spikes. I've contacted motherboard support 4 times and been told that this is an intel's issue or that i should buy additional cheap lan card or just wait for a fix but and im kinda tired of waiting. Also intel never properly responded or confirmed this issue either, apart some guy claiming to be an "engineer" and writing a couple of messages on intel's forums basically saying "this is not our issue go and talk to motherboard's manufacturer".
Hi there this isn't really for me - I Ient my girlfriend's old computer to a friend and he's been experiencing problems with sound.
When using winamp sometimes after a while the sound stops working. But winamp appears to not actually be playing songs. Like you'll click a song and equaliser bars go flat and don't measure sound like when a song is playing with the bass/treble or whatever going up an down with regards to what's happening in the song.
So it's not like the song is playing and no sound is coming out - the song is refusing to play. This problem is worse when playing pro evolution soccer on mute with winamp in the background.
He says when he's playing COD2 that the sound stutters and does it with increasing frequency and then eventually stops. This mostly happens when there's a lot happening on screen.
Restarting the whole machine seems to sort it out with regards to winamp but sometimes just restarting call of duty fixes the sound issues.
I remember having similar problems with operation flashpoint about 7 years ago but can't remember how I sorted it.
He has:
windows xp home SP2
p4 3.0ghz
onboard graphics
onboard sound
I told him it might be an overheating issue and to take the case off the computer and clean the dust out, could it be slightly more serious like the northbridge cooler gone bad?
Or is it a windows/driver problem?
I know there's not a lot of info here I'll ha... Read more
Well the onboard sound is actually controlled by the South Bridge chip I believe; from what it sounds like (no pun intended) the drivers could be out of date. Winamp is usually super-reliable so I would check which version he is running and maybe give that an update, which is free. Also, make sure DirectX is up to date and have him run dxdiag to run the sound tests. START > Run > type dxdiag in the bar...
Personally, I would just invest in a dedicated sound adapter. You can get a decent Creative card for around $30 now and the sound quality would be much better anyways.
This is a continuation of this topic. After getting autorun working, CDs and DVDs stutter. While playing a CD, the CPU usage stays around 30%, while it takes almost no CPU usage to play the same CD on a much older computer. While playing a DVD, the CPU usage is stuck at 100% and both sound and video stutter. This computer normally has about 70-90% CPU usage while playing DVDs. I installed a known working optical drive in this computer and experienced the same problem.The computer is an HP Pavilion ze1210 with an AMD Athlon XP-M 1400+ processor and 768MB of RAM. The computer worked fine before the autorun fix in the topic mentioned above.Also, I've already made 40 posts in four days, and all of them are related to problems with my own computers. That doesn't seem right.
What program do you use to play DVDs?Run the program listed below WHILE playing some DVD....Download Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspxUnzip ProcessExplorer.zip, and double click on procexp.exe to run the program.Click on View > Select Colunms.In addition to already pre-selected options, make sure, the Command Line is selected, and press OK.Go File>Save As, and save the report as Procexp.txt.Attach the file to your next reply.15 more replies
I've been trying to look all over the web to see what could be the issue of my laptop randomly freezing. Ingame when i play League of Legends it happens frequently now where my Frames drop completely to the point where i cant see anything for a while, it is stuck on 1 frame. But i recently also started noticing some issues when watching a video on youtube where either the video would stop, and then play out as in hyperspeed, whilst the sound would normally continue.
I've been looking aswell on what might be the problem causing this and i checked my pc for malware/spyware/etc. and there was nothing on it (except for those damned tracker cookies). The temperature of my vents and cores are perfectly fine aswell which i checked with speedfan/GPU-Z. (i must add that i recently let my laptop get repaired and they replaced the vents, added new cooling paste and gave me a new C: drive). So dust can't be the issue since it has just been fully cleaned.
HOWEVER, i have been looking and seen some people write about running scf /scannow in CMD. This gave me the result that there were some files that could not be repaired. So i kept reading and tried to extract the Log into a Txt file so i could see for myself what was wrong. When i opened and looked through it i saw like 6-8 problems that could not be repaired, but i have no idea what to do or if im even on the right track.
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sfc /scannow
Will repair files just let it do its thing!
Run command prompt as administrator then run sfc /scannow
You can run it from a recovery tool like this -
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows
Windows might be at C:\Windows when you're using it, but D:\Windows from the Command Prompt in System Recovery Options.
In most installations of Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7, C: usually becomes D: and in Windows Vista, C: is usually still C:. To check for sure, look for the drive with theUsers folder on it - that will be the drive Windows is installed on, unless you have multiple installations of Windows on multiple drives.
So this one is a little hard for me to explain but I figured coming here might be my best bet. I have looked everywhere for a solution to this problem and I have tried most everything I could with the exception of a full recovery.
With that said, the stuttering could almost be described as freezing, but when it happens, it happens in little fits. Meaning, when it starts stuttering, my cursor begins jumping around in time to the audio freezing up (and making a rather unpleasant sound) but these freezes never last more than a second each, while the little "fit" could go on for an entire minute. It gets better after I restart my computer, but eventually, it'll start doing it again. (When it happens, it's like everything is kind of staggering around, but it never freezes completely or ceases to function)
I've run all kinds of diagnostics to the point where most of it is a blur. I've updated drivers, rolled back drivers, uninstalled my anti-virus, gone back to a restore point (and received an error, which may be worth noting-- error 0xc0000022) I've run several tests and have so far been able to conclude that there's nothing wrong with my processor, hard drive or motherboard. However, I'm still unsure of my GPU, PSU and potential software issues.
A full scan of both my avast and malware bytes also brought up nothing.
I think it might also be good to mention that it was recovered about five weeks ago, but this has only been going on for about five days. (It wa... Read more
Try turning off Indexing.
See Option 1 Step 4 here:
Index - Enable or Disable
My laptop originally had Windows 8.1. I upgraded to windows 10 and the audio was working perfectly for a while until it started stuttering and also playing sound on both speakers and headphones at the same time. Even my audio levels keep fluctuating. I've tried every possible solution online but I can't seem to get it to work properly. I even resolved to installing my OS afresh, I deleted everything but still the same problem exists. Now my "High Definition Audio Device" is showing a yellow exclamation mark, it didn't show that before. Please help, I'm frustrated now.More replies
Hey guys.
My laptop is a TOSHIBA Satellite L775 (Windows 7) and for quite a while now Ive been having stuttering problems with the sound. If Im watching a youtube video (or listening to music files on my hard drive) occasionally the sound lags. It wasnt too much of a problem at first but its happening quite often now and is incredibly annoying/worrying.
Ive checked out a lot of forums and questions online regarding similar problems, so far I have disabled and replaced my sound driver (although there are like 5 NVIDIA sound drivers I did not have the option to uninstall), disabled a few programs/services using the msconfig (although I dont think its related to the processor or processes, my laptop has 4GB of RAM and an intel i5 processor, Ive ran pretty intensive games on it in the past with no problems so cant see it lagging over music).
I tried downloading a new atheros network driver, I didnt uninstall the current one as Im in the middle of revision and dont want to cut myself off from the internet by mistake. I simply downloaded the replacement driver and ran the install wizard for it, the problem still wasnt fixed.
It might be worth nothing that after I disabled a few programs to see if it was the RAM that the problem seemed to get worse, with massive hangs in the audio. The first time I remember seeing this was almost a year ago, I was playing Crysis 2 and the game/sound crashed. Occasionally after this the stuttering would occur whils... Read more
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Help please! This is driving me nuts! Over the past week, my normally well behaved windows 7 compaq 6700s has been stuttering its sound or video every minute or two for approx half to one second each time. On investigation:
- The sound stutter coincides with Device Manager repainting itself twice, and every time the Device Manager repaints, the sound stutter occurs.
- I don't need to be running any program (or indeed using the sound card) for the Device Manager repaints to happen.
- I've tried switching off Windows Defender, ESET Antivirus 4.0, and everything else I could - but Device Manager still repaints itself.
- I've tried unplugging all USB devices, and disabling as many built-in devices in device manager as I dare; but still the problem continues.
- It seemed to start after a windows update, but I've tried rolling back to a previous restore point; again, no effect.
- For no reason, I could fathom, it was fine again on Thursday, only for the problem to reoccur on Saturday some time.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I can try next?
Hi try going to your computer makers support site for your model and reinstalling both the sound and video drivers19 more replies
Hi, My Sound lags/stutters on Video Games and or Youtube videos the most common problem for this is for example if im watching a youtube video or listening to a Podcast and browsing the web the sound stutters and glitches out and lags my whole computer.
My Computer Specs are Listed below.
GPU: GeForce GT 730
CPU: AMD FX 4300 Quad Core
Audio: Realtek HD Audio.
I just bought this Computer March 17th 2015 from IBuyPower so i don't know whats wrong with it
I assume, from your post, that this is only with on-line media.
Internet connection and speeds or congestion can cause what you are hearing. I have a high speed cable line (80 Mb/sec) and occasionally I get buffering on youtube. The originating server can cause this too.
Run a speed test and see what you come up with.
Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Sporadically my computer stutters in sound when listening music and whether or not i'm in game my sound and game stutters. my FPS drops and it just sounds like bzazaghga. My CPU gauge also sporadically jumps and instead of being at 2-5% when i first initially bought it.Sometimes it goes that low but it is usually at 20-30%+ now at average. At first i questioned i need more ram i only have 6 GB. Then i thought i have not cleaned my computer since last summer so i recently cleaned it and the problem persists. When i play music through itunes or any mediaplayer such as youtube or windows media player it still stutters.( I still have not upgraded my ram to 8 or 10.)When my whole game or sound stutters my CPU gauge goes up, so i'm guessing its my cpu.I only have a standard cooling fan on my cpu.
I got McAfee btw.
My specs are...
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120330-1504)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: X58A-UD5
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 6142MB RAM
If someone needs my full Dxdiag i will post it.
I'd run Speedfan and watch your CPU and other temps .. see if any are 65*C or above.6 more replies
Recently faced with some problems: while using touchpad, mouse pointer suddenly jumps to another place. Another problem is sound glitches(stuttering) and looks like it happens at the same time when the touchpad glitches. I've already tried to update drivers but problem still exists. Any solutions ?
Hi Dima,
Welcome to the Lenovo community!
Try updating the BIOS, then do a reset factory default on the BIOS. Also after you deactivate the touchpad, does the mouse cursor moves if you try using the touchpad?
Click here for better understanding.
Also, Check your DPC latencies using this for choppy sounds: http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
Let us know how you get on.
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hello everyone, hope this is the right place to post this. if not, i apologise.
i am having some seriously annoying problem with my laptop i can't seem to figure out the cause of.
every certain set of minutes... in between 5 and 10 my laptop slows down tremendously. i don't know if this only occurs when i'm playing games or not, but i notice it heavily when in a game. my frame rates drop from say 40 to 12-15, heavy stuttering occurs and speakers start making very weird "scraping" sounds.
could anyone please help?
does the laptop feel very warm?
At first everything seemed fine. Everything was working, I only needed to upgrade the VGA driver.
I have a xonar D1 card with uni-xonar which worked immediately.
Than when I listened to music I noticed clicking and stuttering which got really horrible after while.
Talked about it on hydrogenaudio: Clicking, stuttering after upgrade to Windows 10 - Hydrogenaudio Forums
I clean installed VGA, updated the LAN driver, re-installed xonar. Things improved but they still suck. Clicking is still a regular occurance.
I checked latency when LAN and the soundcard was disabled but latency still sucked:
Since I was using the very same hardware for years without these issues and I have doubts that several hardware or their drivers suddenly started misbehaving I'm guessing it might be an issue in win10 itself.
I attached the latest measurements. (screenshots and report) The worst values still belong to the same as the first time: VGA, soundcard, LAN, USB, ntoskernel
Don't know what else to do.
The latency-problem is usually caused by the latest Intel network driver. There are countless threads about this and easily google-able. There is no real help, Intel is promising to "look into it" for over a year now and still no fix.
I changed to Realtek NIC because of that - best €10 I ever bought for the computer, to have no problems.
As the topic says, I'm having extreme sound stuttering & distortion issues using the latest driver for this old graphic card (179.48, February 2009). I cannot browse a webpage with Flash content without hearing crackling sound. Same thing happen whenever I'm playing mp3 file and opening applications on Windows.
I can certainly state that the driver is causing this issue, since disabling other components and devices on my laptop won't help. Furthermore, installing some very old driver (98.02) seems to fix the issue, but as you may understand, performance is terrible and I am not even able to watch movies smoothly on youtube.
My question is: is there a way to compare these two drivers and manage to mod the newest as to remove the sound stuterring issues?
If not, is there an updated driver available anywhere? I understand my laptop is 7 years old, yet it is fully functional and working properly; I wish Nvidia didn't stop supporting that video card 3 years after its release.
For the record, I have always tried to install some 300.x drivers series using modded inf, without success (either installing it wouldn't work using the 'Have disk' Method, or it would work but performance was terrible).
I'm using Windows 7 32bits. I am suffering the same issue on the 64 bits edition as well as on Windows 8 (drivers are the same anyways!).
Any help would be strongly appreciated.
I do not see any newer drivers. Have you tried letting windows install default drivers? Uninstall the nvidia drivers, reboot and let windows install.7 more replies
Thanks for reading me. I havea delle vostro laptop.
A friend of mine came back from travel with all usb sticks and memeory cards infected by AdobeR / Autorun Worm.
I kindly proposed to disinfect it all since I had gone through the whole procedure already.
While cleaning it turned out, as avast warning wrote, that other malwares were on those drives, namely Win32:Cekar ; Win32:Autorun-AIP and VBS:Malware-gen
After cleaning with a removal tool in safe mode, I rebooted in normal mode, to realize that my audioplayback from sigmatel card was really stuttering. It is not a specific device problem because my bluetooth headset and my external firewire sound card exhibit the same stuttering behavior, whatever program I use to play music.
This really seems like a mlaware of some kind, have you already experienced such problems ? Any advice ?
Thanks a LOT in advance, best
hey guys,
i just bought a new M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard to enjoy great sound in a foobar2000 + flac combination.
i've successfully installed the Vista 32bit drivers in compatibility mode and everything worked fine until then.
after starting to listen to music, i've experienced that from time to time (doesn't matter if i do something with the PC or just leave it there only playing music) the sound starts hanging (and it sounds like stuttering) for 1-3 seconds. then it comes back to normal...and a few minutes later it happens again. it's VERY annoying...
tried playing with WMP (wasn't happy about it) but the same happens.
tried vista 64bit drivers but couldn't install them. tried old Windows XP SP2 drivers, installed fine but no sound.
any1 got any ideas?
am i the only one who has this issue? did i buy a broken soundcard?
please help.
thanx alot in advance
m-audio are not very 'windows' friendly. they really haven't released a decent driver for xp x64 yet, let alone vista. great cards for linux and apple though, and xp 32bit. i wonder if any of the E-MU options in this price range would fair better...you could always go usb/firewire gear for recording...3 more replies
I don't know if this has been posted before (I did look but didn't notice a thread relating to this) but I'm having this really irritating problem with my HP Pavilion Notebook DV5157EU. Whenever it plays any kind of audio, be it MP3, WAV etc and no matter what program runs it, Windows Media, Real Player, Quicktime or any other program, the sound seems to "stutter" every ten - twenty seconds which is a real pain as I will be studying Multimedia at university and i can't get a decent playback out of this thing
Please, if anyone can help then i would be so grateful. I'm reaching the point of wanting to put my foot through the damn thing and be done with it!
The only interesting thing I've noticed is that when it does stutter, the Wireless Light cuts out too. Dunno if it helps any but, meh!
As far as i'm aware the latest drivers are installed and everything.
This is a shameless bump - sorry. But can anyone help?
Hi I had a quick question. I have a Blu-Ray drive and HD Monitor and good graphics card. I am able to watch Blu Rays just fine and even checking CPU usage it comes in at 50-60% percent with all of my Blu Rays.
That was until today I bought the Lord of The Rings Trilogy on Blu Ray and it maxes out the CPU Usage and causes stuttering. Is it possible that because the LOTR movies are like an hour to an hour and a half longer that my PC is just having trouble reading it? My Pc fits all of the Specs for Blu Ray playback and works fine. But the processor is a single core Celeron D 3.46 GHZ so is that to blame? I turned off my Anti-Virus protection and it still stuttered to the point of being unwatchable.
Compaq Presario Intel Celeron D 3.46GHz
Windows Vista Basic SP2
2GB Ram
120GB Hard Drive
Nvidia BFG GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCI-E 2.0 Driver, 196.21
BFG 450 Watt Power Supply
Samsung p2250 Monitor digital driver
16X BD-ROM LG Ultra BLue
Alhena 5 Motherboard
maybe it's just a bad disc. take it back for a replacement.
Ok, I'll try to give as much information as possible. When I start my computer, I get this type of 'stuttering' type lag that totally messes up my video and audio. It makes game completely unplayable and limits computer immensely. When his lag occurs, my mouse also stutters and makes it very hard to control, eve now as I write this message, I am getting the lag which makes it hard to type. It goes away sometimes, and always comes back after a amount of time. It also comes in short bursts for a few seconds, and other times it lasts up to 20 minutes before I get fed up and restart my computer in hope it will go away, which sometimes it does.
I was told it could be a virus, so I used multiple virus scanners which did not come up with anything. I totally wiped my hard drive a couple times as well and reinstalled my OS. Still, the 'stuttering lag' persists. Ive had problems with this computer since I got it, but the lag started to occur maybe a year or so ago.
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My VLC player stutters quite badly whenever I refresh a page on the internet, it could be happening with other programs or applications but VLC is the only one I've noticed it with, possible causes? Solutions?
If you are playing streams straight from the internet, you will experience stuttering whilst browsing as well.
Ive gone to XP from ME and my DVD player is now sticky and not playing properly, ive upgraded my ram from 128 to 512 on my laptop, so its not that.
My DVD is a TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD- U824 and im using Power DVD to run it, it has the windows XP Driver.
Can Anyone help.
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Ok, so i installed Dragon Age: Origins, got the latest drivers and all that. Game runs fine at around 60 fps with only 1 weird problem...
Every second of gameplay has a small freeze of 0.2 sec ... so imagine what i`m getting here. All i can find about this kind of stuttering si that it happenes on SLI/X-Fire configurations but i run a single 4850 from HIS.
Tried drivers from 9.6 to 9.11 beta drivers.
Athlon II x2 240 3.2Ghz
His iceq4 4850 512mb
4x1gb Corsair
M2N-e mobo
Anything to help out will do. PC is very cool, nothing overheating.
All latest drivers and even tried old ones.
FPS does NOT drop to 0 or 1 or whatever when that small freeze happenes, but it does drop fast from lets say 56 to 55, all i`m seeing actually is the fps returning to normal to 56. This is an example. Btw when that freeze happenes the gameplay, actions etc continue to happen, Lets if i was about to give final blow to a monster and that micro stutter happenes, when its finished the creep is dead. So its not an engine freeze or anything else.
also tried different sound drivers, still no succes.
In the end i did a clean install of Windows7 x64, latest ati and mobo drivers and then i installed Dragon Age and the same thing happenes.
original post on Bioware forums HERE
That's odd. The only stuttering I've noticed is from (I assume) the frame rate dropping due to lots of open programs. I close them down, and it goes away.
Maybe try these drivers if they're compatible with your card?
Driver Packaging Version 8.661-090923a1-083743C-ATI
Catalyst Version 09.10
Those work for me with an ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB card and a much older system than yours. Also Win7 64 (home premium).
Hey guys, I can't figure this out for the life of me.
A week ago I installed my new 7800GT and everything was fine for about 10 minutes, then programs started crashing and the computer would stutter, and take forever to install small programs. I reinstalled windows XP after a "quick" NTFS format of my hard drive.
The problem was still there and the computer was barely usable. I installed my old 5600 256MB nVidia card and most of the problems went away, but not all. So I ordered a new PSU with higher amperage and wattage. That seemed to make running the 7800GT about the same stability as with my 5600 256MB.
Now I am stuck with stuttering sound and video, even though I tried two different sound cards. I have tried different drivers for my CPU, chipset, VGA, Soundcard, etc with no results.
I did have my CPU overclocked from 2.2ghz to 2.37 but Prime95 only got the temps up to 44*C after 4+hours, and the problems are there no matter what clock speed I try (within reason). Also tried memtest86 with no errors reported.
System specs:
A64 3500+ Venice
ASrock ULi Dual SATA mobo
xfx nVidia 7800GT
Rosewill 450W Dual 12V rail PSU
2GB PQI Turbo Ram
WD 250Gig + Maxtor 120Gig IDE HDs
ALC850 onboard sound or Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Help! I hope it isn't a hardware problem.
Any help?


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Shagreen: The Skin of Rays & Sharks
Shagreen has been a luxurious decorative material for many centuries, though it is perhaps most closely associated with the Art Deco era. Signifying luxury and exoticism, this often controversial material is once more in vogue.
Shagreen typically refers to the skin of rays, sharks or dogfish, all of which are cartilaginous fish with a smoothly pebbled texture. It has been used for centuries as a mild abrasive, like sandpaper, in smoothing wood and metal.
Supposedly, ray skin has been prized since the time of the pharaohs, and during the Chinese Han Dynasty (202 BC – AD 220). It has been better documented and preserved since it began appearing on the sword hilts and armor of Japanese samurai during the Middle Ages, in part because its texture provided a reliable grip.
Europe began importing shagreen-covered objects during the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the mid-1700s, a tanner in Paris became the first European shagreen expert (his name, Galluchat, has been transformed into galuchat, the French word for shagreen.) Louis XV's most famous mistress, Madame de Pompadour, was the dominant patron of Monsieur Galluchat, and it was said that a week didn't go by when she didn't buy some new object, often in shagreen.
Shagreen was often imitated in more accessible materials. Craftsmen would insert seeds into untanned leather, and then pressing the seeds into the leather before discarding them. They would then typically dye the reverse side green to approximate the authentic skin. The word "shagreen" supposedly comes from the Turkish word "sagri," which refers to the rump or haunches of a mammal, presumably used in approximating the distinctive texture of sting rays.
Shagreen became a popular material again in Europe during the Art Deco era, when designers sought to fuse the French tradition of luxury with exotic and precious materials. Designers like Clément Rousseau and Jean-Michael Frank used shagreen to create their most sumptuous furniture (images 4 & 6).
There is some controversy about whether shagreen is an environmentally correct material. While some sources claim the use of the material may threaten the species, designers who use the material insist that their practice does no harm. At least two prominent companies that use shagreen, Ironies and R&Y Augousti, claim that they use only sustainably-sourced remnants from the fishing industry (images 9 & 10).
Most extant antiques with shagreen are smaller objects, like glasses cases and sword hilts (images 2 & 3), but you can really see how durable the material is, through centuries of both use and neglect. Today, you can find all sorts of objects in both real and faux shagreen, including tables, decorative boxes and picture frames.
Images: 1 Detail of a tableto by Jean-Michel Frank, via Paris Originals; 2 Qing sword from the Qianlong period, sold at Sotheby's in 2002 for about $74,000; 3 Etui made in China circa 1900, via Ruby Lane Antiques; 4 and 5 Small 1912 shagreen commode by Iribe and a 1921 chair by Clement Rousseau, both at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, via Michael Hampton's blog; 6 Shagreen lipstick case by Cartier, circa 1930, sold by Sotheby's in 2006 for about $750; 7 Jean-Michel Frank cabinet from the early 1930s, sold by Christie's in 2000 for about $746,000; 8 Karl Springer table from the 1970s, available from Craig Van Den Brulle on 1st Dibs; 9 Shagreen nesting tables from Ironies; 10 R&Y Augousti Metal Circle Desk, available from Lille for $5,300.
Sources: There is a beautiful French book on shagreen by Jean Perfettini called Le galuchat, published a few years ago. But I like this online history from The Leather Connection.
R&Y Augousti items are available through Lille and at Barney's. Ironies is available to the trade at Jerry Pair.

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Paul has reissued Wild Life, Red Rose Speedway + Wings 1971-73 as part of his GRAMMY-winning Archive Collection.
Limited numbered deluxe editions include remastered original albums, bonus tracks, previously unreleased demos, rare and never before seen video, exclusive books featuring new interviews with Paul, photos, artwork, and much more...
UPDATED: On The Run Tour Returns to North America!
Tickets for Paul's forthcoming dates in St. Louis, Houston, Vancouver and Edmonton go on general sale this Friday 14th at 10am (local time).
Fans can get their tickets from PaulMcCartney.com at the below links:
PAUL McCARTNEY
Nov. 11 at Scottrade Center, St. Louis
Nov. 14 at Minute Maid Park, Houston
Nov. 25 at BC Place, Vancouver
Nov. 28 at Rexall Place, Edmonton
Having kicked off over a year ago with the legendary July 15-16, 2011 doubleheader at New York City's Yankee Stadium that had 90,000 fans singing along non-stop over the course of two near three-hour performances, and more recently gifted Mexico with a historic free May 10 show drawing 250,000 to Mexico City's central plaza, The Zocalo, Paul McCartney's record-breaking On The Run Tour will round out 2012 by returning to North America for four shows: November 11 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis MO, November 14 at Minute Maid Park in Houston TX, November 25 at BC Place in Vancouver BC, and November 28 at Rexall Place in Edmonton AB.
Paul's November 11 show at the Scottrade Center will be his first St. Louis concert in ten years, his last appearance in the city having been on the 2002 Back In The U.S. Tour, and having previously played St. Louis' Busch Stadium twice: once on 1993's New World Tour and in 1966 with The Beatles.
Paul's November 14 date at Minute Maid Park--his first Houston show in nearly seven years--is preceded by a similarly deep history, his first Houston performance being The Beatles' 1965 concert at Sam Houston Coliseum. Paul has since visited Houston in 1976 on the Wings Over America tour, in 1993 on the New World Tour, in 2002 on the Back in the US Tour, and most recently on The US Tour in 2005.
November 25 will end Paul's near 50-year absence from Vancouver, the BC Place show being his first in the city since The Beatles played Empire Stadium in 1964, while November 28 at Rexall Place will be the first Paul McCartney concert ever in Edmonton, yet another On The Run date bringing Paul McCartney to a new locale for the very first time--the latest on a list already including Abu Dhabi, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and more.
Paul McCartney's On The Run Tour has played over 30 dates spanning North and South America, the UK and Europe and the United Arab Emirates. The November 2012 dates are Paul's first in the U.S. and Canada since the summer 2011 run that generated some of the most enthusiastic responses of Paul's peerless career from audiences and critics alike, including:
"Mr. McCartney is not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts. Friday's set ran two-and-a-half hours, with Mr. McCartney constantly onstage, and it had 35 songs, not counting a few additional excerpts... His concerts now are a gentle reminder of his survival and vitality... He perseveres, and entertains, by directly reconnecting to his songs across the decades and still having fun." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"In recent years, McCartney has opted for sporadic runs of shows rather than full-on, consecutive-date world tours. In turn, he seems to relish the stage all the more when he does play live... 'I told you we were going to have a good time,' he said during the encore. It was an offhand comment – but it's still astonishing to see how much McCartney still cares." -- ROLLING STONE
"Paul hasn't aged a bit. Nothing about the show was dated at all. Paul's voice and musicianship were totally intact, his band was excellent, and the clips/images/visuals screening on the stage's backdrop were widely appealing. The sound at Yankee Stadium was also amazing, and Paul had no problem delivering to the extremely large venue." -- BROOKLYN VEGAN
"Paul reminds people of their fabulous youth. That's a lot of youth: the crowd was genuinely intergenerational... Changed my life" -- THE VILLAGE VOICE
"Thunder and lightning raked across the sky over Comerica Park Sunday night, but it was no match for the fireworks Paul McCartney mustered onstage... his well-honed showmanship and impeccable music filled hearts and minds in the sold-out ballpark... For three hours, we were all fab again" -- THE DETROIT NEWS
"At times stirring, at times triumphant, and always irresistibly fun, this was Paul McCartney's night in Detroit... an evening of musical thrills and rich nostalgia for a spirited crowd of 38,000... A little luck, a little magic, a lot of smiles, even a few tears, as McCartney served up a set that launched with a bright 'Hello Goodbye' and wound through nearly half a century of music." -- THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
"The entire night was a thing of beauty. McCartney controlled the stage and the crowd, and he could have played another three hours and people would have stayed." -- THE DETROIT METRO TIMES
"For almost three hours and over three dozen songs Paul McCartney delivered a concert set that only picked up steam as it went along... McCartney wrung new life out of tunes that were were three to four times as old as quite a few of the folks in the audience... made it impossible for anyone to leave feeling like they didn't get everything they'd hoped for and more" -- CHICAGOIST
"Paul McCartney could not just let it be Sunday in the first of two concerts at Wrigley Field. He played for nearly three hours, wringing new rivers of passion from songs he's played hundreds of times." -- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"It's good to have McCartney still out there bashing through shows with this much unbridled spirit. God knows he doesn't need to be, but he's still touring because he obviously is still enjoying it — and his joy is infectious." -- THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"There was an undeniable rush watching Paul McCartney playing Wrigley Field on a warm Sunday night in a show that ran over 2.5 hours and included three dozen songs. Paul McCartney may be the world's greatest living, breathing, original document, a walking, talking fragment of history whose meaning to the lives of millions, and whose place at the fulcrum of pop culture, cannot be overstated. What makes McCartney on stage such a particularly rewarding spectacle is just how much life he injects in his past triumphs" -- TIME OUT CHICAGO
"McCartney, a legitimate legend cruised through three hours at Great American Ball Park. His energetic manner that suggested he could have done three more... an inspiring performance... a three-hour triumph." -- THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
"It was the concert of a lifetime. For the thousands of baby boomers in the audience of Paul McCartney's sold-out show at Great American Ball Park Thursday night, it was the soundtrack of their lives. For their children, it was the songs they grew up listening to with their parents. For their children's children, it was an adventure" -- CINCINNATI METROMIX
"For the better part of his performance last night at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, live images of Paul McCartney were projected onto a pair of towering video screens on each side of the stage... There he was, Paul McCartney - still, after all these years, larger than life... Few things compare to a pop colossus that continues to defy the years to do himself and his revered music proud." -- THE LEXINGTON (KY) HERALD LEADER
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PAUL McCARTNEY
November 2012
Sun. Nov. 11 - Scottrade Center, St. Louis MO
Wed. Nov. 14 - Minute Maid Park, Houston TX
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Wed. Nov. 28 - Rexall Place, Edmonton AB