Computer techs, advice needed please :)
 

I have been having audio issues that I can't seem to figure out what they are caused by

My audio is dragging in all applications, for instance Winamp....I load up a song in winamp, and I used to be able to just let it play in the background and have no issues, but lately it drags whenever I open another program or do anything processor involved. I know it shouldn't be doing that, because I have been going months now without it doing this ever, it just started

I even got so frustrated last week and formatted this machine, so this is a fresh install of windows xp with very little on the drive now, the drag is a little better since i formatted, but still doing it every now and then

could it have something to do with the audio drivers? maybe I need to see if there are updated drivers somewhere, but any insight you all have would be much appreciated

how much of your resources are free? Sounds like your RAM is being chewed up and spit out and the virtual cant keep up.

What kind of sound card? First, install ALL drivers for your system; Chipset first, then video, etc, etc.

Secondly, if you paid for "Soundblaster Advanced MB", uninstall that, then reinstall whatever else is available - that's a software EAX thing and it fucks up fast systems. It's incredibly awful.

You may try file->run->dxdiag and wait for it to load, then 'next' to the audio tab. See if it's in full 'accellerated' mode, or not.

ram leakage. do not confuse this with anal leakage

could be the drivers.
also could be the hard drive is going bad.
or whatever media it is recorded on.

Physical Memory - Total 1048048
Available - 718052
System Cache - 472256

There is nothing soundblaster on this machine

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor 2.01ghz
1.00gb ram

I am using the on board Realtek AC97 Audio

I just did a reinstall of all t he drivers for the system too, and it is still doing it

I did the dxdiag and yes, it is in Full Acceleration

brand new 200gb Maxtor hard drive

Hmm. Load up WinAMP, and hit ctrl-alt-del. Go to the task manager and sort by CPU. What's eating the most CPU? Then, if it seems semi-normal, go back to the first tab and check your RAM/paging.

Can't think of anything else.

System Idle Process - 99
everything after that is 00

actually, there is ram/paging on the first tab of the windows task manager

what is even more fucked up, is that I sit here and not touch the computer and the audio is doing that skippy draggy thing again

like when you listen to a recoding after you slowed it down in an audio editing program, that is what it sopunds like...slow motion

after some research and close watch, I found out it was Window Defender, every 2-3 minutes Windows Defender fires up and does a little mini scan, which takes the CPU level to 99%

UNINSTALLED

Maybe its dying on the board, I would get a new sound card to throw in it.

goodluck....

im using built in....