Annoying Sound Glitch / Stutter on new rig!

[peanutismint]

I constructed a new rig out of old parts, which is bad news as any of them could be the cause of this problem, I'm just hoping somebody will have some obvious fixes in mind...

Basically, when I play MP3s or videos, I'll get an annoying sound stutter or glitch every couple of seconds. It'll only last for about half a second, if that, but it's beginning to annoy the crap out of me. Made last night's '24' even more tense!

Click here for an example

It's the kind of sound Winamp used to make if I happened to get disconnected from my wireless network while it was playing music, but now it's happening all the time and seemingly at random. I've tried disabling network cards, checking the transfer mode of my hard drives, playing the files from different locations, using different media players, checking/changing settings in BIOS; I even put another sound card in and it still continued.

Anybody know what might be causing this? It's a brand new install of Windows XP Pro, on a sliiightly older machine

Abit NF7-S v2.0
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
GeForce 2 MX400
1GB RAM
Swissonic Inca 28 sound

Let me know dudes! Cheers

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Try changing the harddrive's IDE cable to the other IDE port, I got a similar issue when one of the IDE controllers on a board wasnt working properly, so it was fine for reading CDs, but caused huge problems with a HD as it just wasnt coping, sound being one of them.

 

[Firegod]

If you turn the 'Sound Hardware Acceleration Level' down to say, basic, does it occur then?

Can access it via 'dxdiag' in the run box mate.

Cheers.

 

[peanutismint]

Jim, I tried turning down the sound acceleration but it didnt make a difference.

I'll try changing the IDE ports/cables now, but I doubt it'll have any effect, as I've tried copying the files to different hard disks and then playing from there, and I get the same problems.

I should probably have also listed my rather bizzarre hard disk setup:

1 X 80GB on primary IDE channel as Master (with OS and data partitions)
1 X 80GB on primary IDE channel as Slave

also

1 X 300GB on a PCI SATA card which has an extra IDE port on it (as ATA not SATA - this is where the majority of my media files are stored)

Could it be the PCI SATA card? I would be using the 300GB drive as SATA with the Serillel function provided by my Abit board, but my SATA is borked. Tried for two weeks solid to fix it, then gave up. This is the same reason why I'm not using my 180GB SATA drive which already had a perfectly fine and working installation of XP on it...

 

[Firegod]

Chipset drivers perhaps? Maybes re-install?