Choppy audio and video one one hard drive only

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Hi

I have choppy audio and to lesser extent video from one SATA internal
physical hard disc. If I copy the source clip to another physical hard disc
it plays fine.It seems to only happen with larger more complex avi files-
and simpler smaller files like wmv play ok.I tried reinstalling display
adapter drivers to no avail.

Is this a failure of the particular hard disc ( it works fine for text docs
and pics etc) or is there other possibilities?

TIA

Sam

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PPS
Defragged drive-No Change
Sam

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>> Hi
>>
>> I have choppy audio and to lesser extent video from one SATA internal
>> physical hard disc. If I copy the source clip to another physical hard
>> disc
>> it plays fine.It seems to only happen with larger more complex avi files-
>> and simpler smaller files like wmv play ok.I tried reinstalling display
>> adapter drivers to no avail.
>>
>> Is this a failure of the particular hard disc ( it works fine for text
>> docs
>> and pics etc) or is there other possibilities?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>
>

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Ahh, device manager and event viewer both appear ok AFAIK...but in task
manager the CPU utilization jumps to between 55-65%! only with the suspect
drive. Now here's the weird part - Windows media player only uses 10-11% and
"system idle" the bulk of the rest.IOW there is NO process identified as
chewing up all that CPU usage.When the same clip is played (with no
problems) from another drive and in WMP , the CPU shows WMP as around 10-11%
and the total CPU utilization around 13-14%.

Sam

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> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:31:52 +1100, "Sam" <sam@dsst.nosnoop.com> wrote:
>
>>PPS
>>Defragged drive-No Change
>>Sam
> Any other symptoms from your suspect SATA drive.
> Anything amiss in device manager?
> Event viewer?
> Dave

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I swapped around the drives on to different controllers which seems to have
solved the problem for now.I guess it may have been as simple as just a
loose connection or something but time will tell.

Thanks for help

Sam

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> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:04:30 +1100, "Sam" <sam@dsst.nosnoop.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Ahh, device manager and event viewer both appear ok AFAIK...but in task
>>manager the CPU utilization jumps to between 55-65%! only with the suspect
>>drive. Now here's the weird part - Windows media player only uses 10-11%
>>and
>>"system idle" the bulk of the rest.IOW there is NO process identified as
>>chewing up all that CPU usage.When the same clip is played (with no
>>problems) from another drive and in WMP , the CPU shows WMP as around
>>10-11%
>>and the total CPU utilization around 13-14%.
>>
>>Sam
>>
>>"da_test" <davexnet02NO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:ij6l01df3b82qhdhuat7hiffs49d4qu3vm@4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:31:52 +1100, "Sam" <sam@dsst.nosnoop.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>PPS
>>>>Defragged drive-No Change
>>>>Sam
>>> Any other symptoms from your suspect SATA drive.
>>> Anything amiss in device manager?
>>> Event viewer?
>>> Dave
>>
> perhaps its the drive itself.
> Does HDtach work with SATA ? If so,
> give it a try.
> Dave