Stuttering Audio Video

[ObiWan_Kenobi]

I'm having problems with audio video on my system. Whenever I use Winamp, it will "skip" about once every 2 or 3 minutes or so. I've got an Athlon 1400 (running at 38 C, 256MB DDR, SB Audigy, Gforce 2 MX400, and a ATA100 drive on a ASUS A7V266E. My system is running XP pro. I definately shouldn't be having performance problems.
Whats odd is the fact that the system never did this before. i had it running for a good 6 months with 0 problems. Then one fine day it just started happening. The only thing i had done was rename alot of my mp3's to try to get a standardized naming system. other than that i hadnt touched it in weeks. with one exception there was no installs, no new devices or drivers....nothing EXCEPT FOR the latest version of winamp.

So it was high time for a fdisk and reinstall so i did it (saving my data on another machine on my network first) Same result.

Im clueless.....what do you think......maybe a conflict with the audigy and XP/Winamp? no idea

Thanks

[NDC]

nothing EXCEPT FOR the latest version of winamp.

May the version you are using is the problem? Try reverting back to the previous version before this problem started...



I would also let WinAMP run and see if there are any other processes that may be taking away the CPU time by using the Task Manager.

If all looks normal, you may want to try look in Device Manager and see if any devices are sharing the same IRQ. Although IRQ sharing isn't a problem on most devices nowdays, I've noticed that some devices just don't get along well. If the the soundcard is sharing an IRQ with other device(s), try moving the soundcard to another PCI slot.

And one last suggestion would be to see if you have a settigg in the BIOS called "PCI Latency". Most mainboards have this setting defaulted at 32. Try setting it to 64 or 128 and see if that solves the problem...

[ObiWan_Kenobi]

anyone have a previous version of winamp? please e-mail it to me if possible

Also winamp barely touches the cpu, and this is a fresh install, nothing is running in the background that would cause this

Also i had this setup running fine for 6 months with all the hardware in the current config. with no problems. The soundcard also has its own IRQ