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826438 2009-11-02 03:23:00 XP-Pro - SP3 and all . 1 . 7G Athlon XP, 2G RAM . Soyo MB (Ultra Platinum, SY333)

PROBLEM:

Sound and/or video playback has stops-starts-repeats and blank spots .

In Power DVD it does the same thing . The action stops as does the sound and then it starts where it left off - most times when it acts up, that is .

Playback in WMP and RealPlayer, etc, all do the same thing .

Music can stop at any place and restart or stutter and hang up, but usually will chug through the whole song - even though it has a hard time . There is no pattern to the failures . It may happen at any time it feels like it .

The hdd light on the front of the case blinks furiously as the playback struggles . That's why I thought it was a bad hdd and installed a new one .

If I soft reboot, it seems to resolve for a short time, but it really doesn't seem to get any better that way .

Cold boot in the AM or after hours off-line may or may NOT make it appear or act badly .

I tried a large powerful fan blowing into the open side of the case, but that didn't help .

Cleaned the CPU and re-heat sinked it .

Tried off-line, shut down my security and nothing is any better .

Checked Task Manager, and there's no real problems I can see . No spyware according to HJT and several scans produce NO negative results .

Killed several operations in Task Manager and still it hangs up .

If I load a DVD (commercial or otherwise) into the optical drive, it too hangs up just like files on the hdd .

Parts changed:

Two new 500G harddrives
Video card
Audio card
PSU (500watts)

Help!
SurferJoe46 (51)
826439 2009-11-02 03:55:00 Id say driver. You could try downloading klite codec (www.free-codecs.com)

I think that solved a similar problem I had on an athlon xp. Otherwise update sound drivers.
hueybot3000 (3646)
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