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[vn0007]

Hi, i have 2 PCs w/ different mobo's with same onboard sound problem. The sound is stuttering (?). The problem also exist when i tried to check windows sound in control panel. Please help!!!!

[John Prophet]

What operating system? What is the speed of the computers?

On some of my older Windows98se computers, the sound stutters at bootup..I dont think there is anything to be done about it if the computer is low speed...the one I have that stutters bad is a pentium2-233 I think.

JP

[Darthgary]

I reccomend a PCI sound card such as a Sound Blaster Live!, they have independent sound processors and require way less of the CPU then on board sound does.

What is your systems specs.

[vn0007]

Thanks for answering. Here's what i have:

PC1:

P4 2.4G
512M/120G H/D
Soyo SY-P4S Dragonlite
Sis Display adapter
Verbatim DVD RW
Yamaha CDRW
IEEE 1394
HSP56 Modem
Netwrork adapter: Sis 900_based PCI fast ethernet, MAC bridge miniport
Sound (on board): CMI8738/C3DX PCI audio device
WinXP PRo

My PC #2 has different mobo, pretty much same specs. There's no conflict in device managers.

[woodbutcher]

Have you checked to see if there are updated drivers?

WB

[vn0007]

I tried soyo's drivers on their site but no help!

[dr_roberts49]

Run msconfig and do a process of elimination. I had the same problem and through trial and error, found the offending dll file. Took it out of the loading process, and the sound stutter went away. My system has been running stutter free for over a month now, and none of my apps seem to need the offending file. I have a P4c 2.4ghz running XP Pro. My video and sound cards are different from yours, but it might be the same problem. In my case, the offending file was: nvcpl associated with rundll32.exe. Good luck and happy hunting

Robert

[vn0007]

Thanks Robert!

[vn0007]

I went thru the process of elimination and nothing works. any other suggestion will be aprreciated. Thanks!

[dr_roberts49]

Sorry to hear that vn0007. I know I was going up the wall trying to eliminate the sound stutter myself. There's a lot of good help available here, and I'm sure your problem will get resolved.

Robert