CygnusX

Hi ! I installed WinXP (clean install) last Monday and since then i am having this problem : The sound skips or chutters during videos played from the CD, like for example i have a game and there is an introductory video on the cd , the sound skips everytime my dvd rom reads data from the cd ! in essence this happens everytime the light on the dvd-rom flashes.... I didn't have this problem under Win98 SE... Any ideas ? Thanks ! Specs : WinXP Pro (All the critical updates installed) Duron 1 GHz MSI K7T Pro (Bios ver. 3.3 , latest VIA drivers) Prophet 4500 64 MB (latest drivers) Philips Seismic Edge 5.1 PSC705 (latest drivers installed) Creative's 6x-24x DVD ROM P.S Damn it i found the whole situation extremely annoying , what with the refresh rate bug and then this .... i thought new OS's supposedly solve problems ,not creating new ones... please help ! Cygnus

Uninstalling and reinstalling VIA's IDE drivers enabled the DMA mode and thus solving my problem !!!! Thanks ! Cygnus

Actually yes the DVD is working in PIO mode , (the DVD and the 2nd HD are connected to the 2nd IDE channel through the same cable) BUT i can't change the PIO mode of the DVD to DMA don't know why... even though i clicked the "DMA if availiable" at transfer mode... The 2nd HD is using Ultra DMA mode 2... Thanks Cygnus