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by dafunk

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Hello!

I had a previous post regarding sound skipping problems I was having with my new computer while running games. The skips and pops seemed to be in timing with my HD activity LED. No fix for that problem yet, but now I find a single pop every 10-12 seconds outside of games. It would seem to be an over-all hardware problem. I have a P4 machine with 256MB RAM. All current drivers and WinXP OS (just upgraded from ME hoping it would fix) Please help as this is very annoying because I know there has to be a fix! Thanks.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

This is likely to be caused by shared IRQs and the devices' (particularly your sound card ) being interrupted for overly long.

To verify this look in the device manager and note each IRQ for your devices. Its very likely your sound card will be sharing with something.

Unfortunately XP doesn't allow you to alter them except in the BIOS. The only thing you could try is to move your soundcard into another slot.

Cheers,
Tim.

by Member 33712138

I once had a prob with an on-board sound card. It used to pick up on various electrical signals - maily from the modem. But would produce a low rumbling noise all the time.

It disappeared once i upgraded to a PCI soundcard - Soundblaster 1024
Hope this helps :)

by dafunk

Tried that before I read your answer. Thanks though! This seems to have solved the problem.

by bobg22

I had that problem with skipping when i put in a new hard drive Ultra 66 with the 80 wire cable even my waves would skip when i put the 40 wire cable back on it worked fine. later i went to a Maxtor Ultra 66 hardrive and 80 wire cable and it worked find.For some reason the w.d. drive would not work on that computer but it is working fine on another computer.both were amd 450 with 256 m/ram. hope that helps you bobg22

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