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skipping problem
Name: lou Date: August 16, 2004 at 09:12:42 Pacific OS: windows xp pro CPU/Ram: athlonxp with 512 RAM pc
Comment:
can anyone help me my pc keeps on skipping. everytime i play music or video file they keep on skipping, i tried winamp divx musicmatch and even windows media player. i've reformatted it also but the same problem occurs, what do you think is the problem?
Name: strbux4me2 Date: August 16, 2004 at 09:15:56 Pacific
Reply:
you may have your playback set to Digital. Try playback in Analog only. There's a setting in Windows Media player that you can adjust for this. I believe it's in Tools, Options, Devices, then Properties.
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Response Number 2
Name: BlueRaja Date: August 16, 2004 at 11:11:51 Pacific
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If you're talking about playing from a CD, your CD drive might need to be cleaned.
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Response Number 3
Name: rrlyon Date: August 16, 2004 at 13:04:19 Pacific
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MORE INFORMATION - how many CD/DVD drives do you have? Is this a file on a CD or is it on the hard drive? If it is a CD file have you tried the other drive if you have two installed? What IDE channel are the drives on? How many hard drives or other hardware is sharing the cable? If you have two optical drives on the same cable and you are having the skipping problem you might be seeing the DMA/PIO mode problem. Optical drives running in PIO mode only will skip when there are two drives on the same cable. Device Manager and checking the secondary IDE controller settings will identify the mode. If in PIO and you can't select DMA then the drive is probably bad and will need replaced.
Richard
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Response Number 4
Name: lou Date: August 18, 2004 at 23:05:25 Pacific
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im playing directly from the harddrive. the harddrive's(master) IDE cable is shared with one optical drive, liteon dvd drive(slave). then the other optical drive is a asus writer that is connected to the secondary IDE as a master.
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