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Music gets staticy when computer is working hard

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ryanjg11

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I never had this problem with my P4 setup, but since I switched to an Abit NF7-S motherboard and AMD Barton 2500XP it seems whenever I'm playing mp3s or just about any audio is playing, when I do something that requires a litle bit of CPU usage, like opening a browser window or launching an application, my music temporarily becomes static'y. My sound card is an Audigy LS, but I have had this card for a long time in my P4 setup and never had these static problems... which leads me to think that it's not a sound card issue. Any ideas?
 
Update the Mobo drivers, sound card drivers, and mobo bios and whatnot.

It's worth a shot.
 
Most likely, a chipset driver issue. Also, make sure you have onboard audio disabled.
 
I have the same problem. It may have something to do with the nforce2 chipset, however I am using the onboard sound. I thought about purchasing an M-audio revolution to rectify the issue (and get better sound quality).
 
this happens on my amd as well but it doesn;t happen on my friends p4 wit hyper threading so maybe without hyper threading the comp cant process both things at once im not sure.:confused:
 
Originally posted by xbreaka
this happens on my amd as well but it doesn;t happen on my friends p4 wit hyper threading so maybe without hyper threading the comp cant process both things at once im not sure.:confused:
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No that's BS. I've never had this problem with any other chipset and other CPU's w/o hyperthreading (athlon, pentium3). I've only noticed it with this particular setup (nforce2 + athlonxp).
 
check your speakers and sound card and make sure you're not getting some EMI (electro-magnetic interferance). This happened to a friend of mine, every time is HDD would start accessing, you could hear the clicking of the HDD arm on his crappy speakers.
 
Originally posted by Talonz
Most likely, a chipset driver issue. Also, make sure you have onboard audio disabled.
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Onboard audio has been disabled the whole time.
 
Originally posted by ownerizer
check your speakers and sound card and make sure you're not getting some EMI (electro-magnetic interferance). This happened to a friend of mine, every time is HDD would start accessing, you could hear the clicking of the HDD arm on his crappy speakers.
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I'm positive it's a motherboard or CPU issue, as my setup has remained EXACTLY the same (sound card, speakers, everything).
 
My last computer was a AXP and NF2 w/ SB Audigy 2 and I didnt have these problems...
 
Hi,

Check to see if your Harddrive(s) are in DMA mode. When I had mine on PIO mode, the music will skip constantly when I'm running the system at 100%.

- Goto Hardware Manager
- Go look at the properties of the IDE controller
- Check the Primary and Secondary channel

Good luck

-Thanks
 
I had this problem with my soundcard (old SB Live!) on my current setup (AMD 1.4 Tbird on Abit-KT7A) and it only seemed to happen when I reformatted and everything had default windows drivers.

As soon as I installed the proper driver that came with my soundcard (albeit outdated) the static stopped. I don't know if the same results will happen for you but it's worth a shot.
 
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