Have had this issue for longer than I can remember.
ALL DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
Specs:
Asus P5N-D (using the onboard sound)
ATI HD4850
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
4GB Corsair XMS PC2-6400
500GB Seagate internal + 1TB Seagate external
Windows XP SP3
(All components are stock - all temperatures are well within limits)
No viruses - confirmed through numerous Anti-virus scans carried out in and out of safe mode.
In general the computer works as normal. However when I play my music through WMP or any other media player (or stream from youtube) and generally listen to any audio source, maybe every minute or more (very rough guess) i get an audio lag for about 2-3 seconds. It basically sounds like the music is slowing down then resuming after the few seconds to its normal speed.
In the meantime I have checked the task manager and noticed the CPU spiking. Now when i say spike im talking a spike from 0-3% (my normal CPU when listneing to music whilst on maybe firefox and windows messenger) to 9-11% (as you can see nothing majory high). Now when I play music and open say firefox or other programs causing the cPU to shoot up to 25% or above, as normal, the music continues to play normally (unless of course by sheer coincidence there's another lag spike at the same time). The only process i've noticed using "02" CPU at that time is "System".
As for background programs I used to have the java updated running and decided to stop it which seemed to fix the problem for a few days (this was about a months ago) but soon enough it came back. Now the ONLY programs I have running on startup are:
CLIStart
KBD(drivers ofr my HP multimedia keyboard)
RTHDCPL
avgtray
msnmsgr
msmsgs
I have posted this on many a forum and no one can understand why a computer of this spec (and in a cleaned conditon) cannot handle such a simple task. I doubt its to do with the page file size or buffering but I've heard it's a possibility. The other one i've ehard is that realtek's drivers use alot of the CPU to create the sound and that i'm better off with an independant sound card. now this may be true BUT if realtek's drivers use alot of CPU then why don't they use alot of it CONSTANTLY rather than spiking at minute to two minute intervals?
Literally 2 hours ago put new thermal paste (Arctice Silver Ceramique) on as I thought it may be my final hope in fixing the audio problem. Thoroughly checked no hairs/particulate in the CPU area (i.e. between CPU and board or between CPU and heatsink.) as I was told this could be a common reason for the lag.
ANY HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED BECAUSE I AM QUITE FRANKLY SICK OF THIS PROBLEM, it's the only thing runing this computer for me.
ALL DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
Specs:
Asus P5N-D (using the onboard sound)
ATI HD4850
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
4GB Corsair XMS PC2-6400
500GB Seagate internal + 1TB Seagate external
Windows XP SP3
(All components are stock - all temperatures are well within limits)
No viruses - confirmed through numerous Anti-virus scans carried out in and out of safe mode.
In general the computer works as normal. However when I play my music through WMP or any other media player (or stream from youtube) and generally listen to any audio source, maybe every minute or more (very rough guess) i get an audio lag for about 2-3 seconds. It basically sounds like the music is slowing down then resuming after the few seconds to its normal speed.
In the meantime I have checked the task manager and noticed the CPU spiking. Now when i say spike im talking a spike from 0-3% (my normal CPU when listneing to music whilst on maybe firefox and windows messenger) to 9-11% (as you can see nothing majory high). Now when I play music and open say firefox or other programs causing the cPU to shoot up to 25% or above, as normal, the music continues to play normally (unless of course by sheer coincidence there's another lag spike at the same time). The only process i've noticed using "02" CPU at that time is "System".
As for background programs I used to have the java updated running and decided to stop it which seemed to fix the problem for a few days (this was about a months ago) but soon enough it came back. Now the ONLY programs I have running on startup are:
CLIStart
KBD(drivers ofr my HP multimedia keyboard)
RTHDCPL
avgtray
msnmsgr
msmsgs
I have posted this on many a forum and no one can understand why a computer of this spec (and in a cleaned conditon) cannot handle such a simple task. I doubt its to do with the page file size or buffering but I've heard it's a possibility. The other one i've ehard is that realtek's drivers use alot of the CPU to create the sound and that i'm better off with an independant sound card. now this may be true BUT if realtek's drivers use alot of CPU then why don't they use alot of it CONSTANTLY rather than spiking at minute to two minute intervals?
Literally 2 hours ago put new thermal paste (Arctice Silver Ceramique) on as I thought it may be my final hope in fixing the audio problem. Thoroughly checked no hairs/particulate in the CPU area (i.e. between CPU and board or between CPU and heatsink.) as I was told this could be a common reason for the lag.
ANY HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED BECAUSE I AM QUITE FRANKLY SICK OF THIS PROBLEM, it's the only thing runing this computer for me.
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