Video skipping trouble

Hey there, I apologize if this is the wrong section but I didn't see any section that would better fit this problem. It's quite a unique problem actually that I have posted around several other forums and had absolutely no responses. Furthermore I can't seem to tell what it is related to, hardware, software or otherwise.

So, the basic problem itself is that when watching videos, the video and audio skip about a second or two. This occurs quite frequently and it's regularity can vary from once every 5-10 minutes, to several times in a single minute. The audio skips with the video and thus remains completely in sync. This happens with all media formats and in all media players with the only exception of .mov files in quicktime, at least that I have seen. Also, the skipping occurs when playing DVDs.

In an effort to ressolve this issue I have made sure that my video and sound drivers are up to date, and I have also reverted to old drivers to check to see if it fixes the problem: it doesn't. I have reformatted since the issue first arrose, but that also did not help.

My system is running Windows Xp Professional SP2, it is approximately 5 years old, the hardware is as follows:
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Barton 3200+ 2.4ghz 400fsb
ATI Radeon 9800SE 256MB
Creative PCI Soundblaster
Western Digital SATA1 160GB 8000rpm hard disk drive
Enermax 400W PSU
1024MB Kingston Tech DDR RAM

If there is any other information that I can provide please let me know. If anyone can assist with this issue in any way, that would be amazing. It's extremely annoying and I've been dealing with it for several months now.

Get a new system you fcuking peasant. Your drive is spinning too fast.

The onboard audio is busted. The prongs are all bent out of shape and so I can't get audio out of both speakers.

Don't know what I did to warrant that...

You mean my hard disk? Then I could just fix that with a new hard drive right?

I would, but nobody would take them, they are all shot to ****. While I'm aware that getting a new system would fix the problem, I would rather just replace one or two parts as there is nothing else wrong with my system, a new one would just be a waste of money.

Ahh, I get it. The model is: WDC WD1600JB

http://www.directdial.com/WD1600JB.html

And so do you think that replacing my hard disk will help? And is there any way I can just repair the disk?

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Yes. You should open up the drive and carve a nick into the top platter. Power it up and count how many times it spins in sixty seconds.

Hey Mr. Magoo, don't listen to Ryan. He's just a country boy and knows nothing of a computers internals. If your combine harvester was on the blink then country boy would be your man.

Seriously, you should fire up task manager whilst watching a video. Click on the performance tab and wait until the video skips. I'll bet when it does there is a spike in CPU usage. If so switch to the processes tab and order them so the process with the highest CPU usage is at the top. Wait again for the video to skip and note the process that is responsible. If you recognise the process and know from what software it comes then un-install the fcuker, if not google it and find out from there.

Personally I think the problem is your acker macker valve, it's probably over fibulating. The best way to correct this is to wash the mother board in a dishwasher to remove any cosmic ray residue.

Once again I urge you to ignore the bumpkin.

we all remember your album pic ryan!

Hey I think for surviving this thread we should make Blind_Masseur an honourary non n00b

fcuk off!!

Kinda, not hormonal enough, perhaps I'm picking up on the Cat's hormones, she's about to drop, think I should run a syndicate. How many kittens do you lot think she'll have this time? She had 5 in the first litter and four last time.

no!! I'll be making money on them kittens, she produces them for free I get to make money out of her

Dear Tom

I am not interested in your damned puppies. I am however very interested in acquiring a Chunt Funter. Perhaps you could advise me.

Sincerely

The Wingding

I certainly had no intentions of sticking my hard drive in the microwave; however the possibility of it spinning too fast seemed worth exploring seeing as how I've gotten absolutely nothing from anywhere else.

As for my sound card, both myself and the engineers' of the company that I bought my system parts from have tried bending the prongs back into the right place (or so they are not touching eachother) sadly the effects only last a day or two and then it bends back.

While I intend to get a new sound card for the purpose of sound design (so obviously a much better one) I'm curious as to what is wrong with the creative sound blaster?

As for the process manager, nothing spikes when the video skips. The process using the most resources is the System Idle Process at around 70, media player classic at around 25, and a mix between azureus, firefox, tuneup utilities memory optimizer, svchost.exe and usnsvc.exe using the other 5.

What on earth did you do to your motherboard? It's no wonder your system is fcuked.

Azureus has a memory leak. Well the version I last used did, system would slow right down the longer it was left on. Switch to uTorrent. Also you need to delete the system idle process. If still unsure PM me your IP address and turn on remote connection. I'll soon have it sorted out for you.

Tom, I keep ending the "Idle process" tree and it keeps popping back up!

How can I get rid of this!

And is it true that Azerus has the leak? How will I be able to DL the police footage of Brittney without it??!?!?!?

Well so much for trying to help you ROFLMAO the jokes on me cause either this is a total joke on me or you are one seriously ignorant individual[Ignorant = A lack of knowledge], Creatives cheap end of cards have always been problem children and you can research that at guess where? Creatives forums, however your card is so old it may not even have any references to it anymore at the website.

As far as your pins bending themselves back on their own, thats total horse sh!t, you're the one bending the pins, try looking at the orientation of how the plug and socket align it only goes in one way, and the engineers' are helping you with that! ROFLMAO

What pins are you talking about on your soundcard anyway?

The HDD spinning too fast was a JOKE! GET IT! A JOKE!

The next time you stumble down here you're on your own, read the stickys at the top they were posted here just for someone like you!

Tell that to tomsmart. The poor old bugger needs a pick me up after the last game. Seems he's living in the old days.

This is the first time I've ever seen tomsmart to be in a charitable mood.

Oh and 4ryan6, your picture......O..M..G!!!

...*dashes in*...

...*steals llama's bastage*...

...*escapes*....

Potential for baked ham creativity here...

That is how the motherboard came, and if I were to replace it I would have to go a month without a mobo which I wasn't about to do as it was my only computer at the time.

Did you not see the last paragraph of my post where I said that there were no programs that were spiking and that that I was using Media Player Classic? Also, the only icons in my task bar are daemon tools and azureus.

@4ryan6: as I said the pins were bent the day my motherboard arrived. the purpose of getting a new sound card was to get the cheapest possible card that would give output to both speakers. the creative card has accomplished that well enough so I don't really see an issue.

** Leaves give way revealing pool filled with Wingding disolving Coors **
** Looks down as poor pervert decends into vat of evil cat piss **
** Pulls out fishing rod to real in the stolen bastage **