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Hi
Bare with me as I got no reply at windowsxp video forum re choppy video
problem - I think it is a hardware issue.
I have choppy audio and to lesser extent video from *one* (of 3) SATA
internal
physical hard disks. 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 (The fact that small clips play
ok suggests that the total disk access
is getting slowed down to the point you overrun the buffers??).The
"problem"HD also works fine for text docs
and pics etc.
I tried reinstalling display adapter drivers to no avail.Defragging the disk
did not help.
Is this a failure of the particular hard disk or is there other
possibilities?
Hardware
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XP Pro, ATI AIW 9800 Radeon video card, P4 3.2 GigHz, I gig RAM,
Mobo is AsusP4C800 Deluxe which has onboard support for 4 SATA Drives so
shouldn't be a bus issue as in sharing a bus like parallelATA/IDE.Not sure
if
the "controller" itself can be overloaded or something but the other SATA
disks play video fine suggesting its not a problem originating outside this
one hard disk??Also video plays ok from the ParallelATA/IDE fixed disks as
well as from USB connected external disks.
Thanks
Sam
Hi
Bare with me as I got no reply at windowsxp video forum re choppy video
problem - I think it is a hardware issue.
I have choppy audio and to lesser extent video from *one* (of 3) SATA
internal
physical hard disks. 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 (The fact that small clips play
ok suggests that the total disk access
is getting slowed down to the point you overrun the buffers??).The
"problem"HD also works fine for text docs
and pics etc.
I tried reinstalling display adapter drivers to no avail.Defragging the disk
did not help.
Is this a failure of the particular hard disk or is there other
possibilities?
Hardware
--------
XP Pro, ATI AIW 9800 Radeon video card, P4 3.2 GigHz, I gig RAM,
Mobo is AsusP4C800 Deluxe which has onboard support for 4 SATA Drives so
shouldn't be a bus issue as in sharing a bus like parallelATA/IDE.Not sure
if
the "controller" itself can be overloaded or something but the other SATA
disks play video fine suggesting its not a problem originating outside this
one hard disk??Also video plays ok from the ParallelATA/IDE fixed disks as
well as from USB connected external disks.
Thanks
Sam