Extremely annoying sound problem

[CygnusX 0]

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

[JP- 0]

Check that your CD/DVD drives are using DMA mode, and not PIO mode.

 

Just check device manager, and under IDE/ATA controllers, double click on secondary IDE channel, and then the advanced tab in there can tell you

[CygnusX 0]

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

[JP- 0]

Check out www.viahardware.com and download JUST the IDE driver from the downloads page.

 

Try an install of that and see if it enables DMA on the drive.

[Alien 1]

http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21589

[CygnusX 0]

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

 

Thanks !

 

Cygnus