audio is skipping

[Malohta]

when I play MP3s or playing a video game, the sound plays like a scratched cd.

I've reinstalled windows media player and that didn't seem to work.

 

[Kage]

If your playing a video game though, Windows Media Player won't be the cause.

What sound card have you got? Or is it onboard? If its onboard, this could be a problem already, but should never be THAT big of a problem... hmm...

Whats your system specs?

 

[Malohta]

my sound card is onboard its a SoundMAX with SPX. The motherboard is intel D845WN if thats any help.

 

[Kage]

Hmm...yep, as I thought, on board...

Does it always do this, what ever you do?

I'm guessing maybe its time for those drivers to be updated. They may be faulty.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=664

Select your operating system and download the Intergerated audio driver listed You can't go wrong, because its coming directly from them.

I hope this helps

 

[DJ-CHRIS1]

This could also be buffer underruns, this are commonly experinced audio errors when the soundcard hasnt recieved data.

This happens with a problem with another device in a computer, or too low of a buffer set on a soundcard. However on non professional soundcards you cannot change the buffer.

 

[Malohta]

The last time I reformatted was a year ago and I recall a few years ago, I would often have this same problem. Not knowing what to do, I often reformatted. I would always notice this after I formatted my hard drive and when I test the sound for the first time it would do this. The problem would usally be resolved after I reformatted a second time but... I'd much rather find out how to solve this problem without reformatting.

 

[Kage]

Have you tried installing those drivers? ^

 

[Malohta]

Have you tried installing those drivers? ^

Had those installed so I removed them and installed again and got this message.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h284/Malohta/info.jpg

 

[Malohta]

Just fixed it. I took another look and figured that I really should read that readme file. I did and after following some directions about the Windows 98SE audio update, everything is working fine again.

Thanks for the assistance. Now if I ever run into this problem again, I'll know exactly how to fix it.

 

[Kage]

Glad you got it working