When i have a media file open with sound playing, and the computer loads (CPU operations), the media file does a nice little HIGH PITCHED skipping sound effect that makes me want to rip my headphones off.
It's not my headphones, it happened to multiple devices.
It's not my sound card, i removed my soundcard and used on-board audio (with newest drivers) to no avail. (Problem existed w/ and w/o sound card).
I downloaded newest directx, no help (using winxp pro).
It MIGHT be my motherboard... but i know next to nothing about how to fix that. I'm using a gigabyte k7 triton series ... uh, GA-7N400.
It's not the program: skipping happens in WMP, winamp, various divx players with movies playing (the sound skips in movies).
It also happens with the startup sound on my computer: as the computer starts up, and it's loading, the startup sound skips and glitches.
For some reason, Half life, BF 1942, UT2003 and the rest of the games i play seem to be devoid of this problem. I havent heard it come from any audio i hear out of any game, only media files/media programs.
It's not the files, because after a skip I will backtrack to the same place and it WONT skip. It only happens every so often, almost always when something is loading, when i'm surfing a graphics intensive website, or when something of some random sort is loading in the background.
(if this means anything, i have a 200 gig WD hard drive hooked up to a ATA card to handle my big partition, my Mobo wouldn't recognize it otherwise...?)
anyone know what this is?
I'm pissed cause it hurts my ears randomly, and i'm probably going to reformat everything and start over to solve the problem... but that probably wont solve it because this is a brand new computer that i built, and it had this problem pretty much immidiately after winxp installation.
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I'm going to post this in one other section i think, but this was the closest forum i could find for the problem.
It's not my headphones, it happened to multiple devices.
It's not my sound card, i removed my soundcard and used on-board audio (with newest drivers) to no avail. (Problem existed w/ and w/o sound card).
I downloaded newest directx, no help (using winxp pro).
It MIGHT be my motherboard... but i know next to nothing about how to fix that. I'm using a gigabyte k7 triton series ... uh, GA-7N400.
It's not the program: skipping happens in WMP, winamp, various divx players with movies playing (the sound skips in movies).
It also happens with the startup sound on my computer: as the computer starts up, and it's loading, the startup sound skips and glitches.
For some reason, Half life, BF 1942, UT2003 and the rest of the games i play seem to be devoid of this problem. I havent heard it come from any audio i hear out of any game, only media files/media programs.
It's not the files, because after a skip I will backtrack to the same place and it WONT skip. It only happens every so often, almost always when something is loading, when i'm surfing a graphics intensive website, or when something of some random sort is loading in the background.
(if this means anything, i have a 200 gig WD hard drive hooked up to a ATA card to handle my big partition, my Mobo wouldn't recognize it otherwise...?)
anyone know what this is?
I'm pissed cause it hurts my ears randomly, and i'm probably going to reformat everything and start over to solve the problem... but that probably wont solve it because this is a brand new computer that i built, and it had this problem pretty much immidiately after winxp installation.
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I'm going to post this in one other section i think, but this was the closest forum i could find for the problem.
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