Re: Media Player 11 skips during folder access/scrolling
- From: DMR87 <DMR87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:13:01 -0700
Aye, the data disk only has 43% free space. However the windows disk is over
90% free - and both recieve regular defrags, with the data disk at only <1%
fragmentation at the moment. My current install of windows is only 3 months
old and I make a point of formating the windows disk & re-installing
everything every 6 months or so.
Would you recommend I try to take off a lot of the data on the hard drive?
Or even have a seperate one for music (seeing as they're so cheap these
days). However I don't really want to go to that expense as an experiment -
what would you advise? Is it something to do with the audio subsystem or the
harddrives?
I'm stuck as to what the source of all this is, as all the googling I've
done seems to lead everywhere from the hardware (either onboard audio,
graphics card interferring somehow, dodgy motherboard) to the software
(removing all codecs & drivers and re-installing them, antivirus
interferring, changing some settings in explorer).
Thankyou for your time,
Rob
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
Sounds like that PC gets a real hammering with all the CAD, Gaming and.
Music (and I imagine DVD / video playback too). When was the last time
you ran Disk Defragmenter on those drives ?
Cheers - Neil
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:22:12 -0700, DMR87
<DMR87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,------------------------------------------------
I've been having a problem for a number of months whereby windows media
player functions fine whilst playing back mp3's, however as soon as I browse
my hard drive using explorer the tracks begin to skip. This happens primarily
when accessing a directory/folder or when scrolling up and down the folder
view.
I have two hard drives installed on my PC, with my windows & program
installations on one disk and my data (music, videos, files) stored on the
other. The problem affects playback when browsing either hard drive and as
they're from different manufacturers I suspect it's a software issure rather
than a hardware one. I'm wondering if its some setting in explorer that's
momentarily eating up processes or causing some problem with the memory.
I can't afford to disable video acceleration due to the fact I use the PC
for gaming, CAD & Modelling and so if some other workaround is available I'd
prefer that. I'm wondering if a dedicated sound card would solve the issues?
The full specification for my PC is as follows:
AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.1 Ghz
1024Mb Corsair DDR-400
Asus A8N-Sli nForce 4 Motherboard
256mb Geforce 6800 GS
250gb Western Digital WD2500KS SATAII
250gb Samsung SP2504C SATAII
Onboard Sound (realteck AC'97 codecs)
Windows XP Home edition, SP2
AVG Antivirus (free edition)
Zone Alarm Firewall
Spybot Seach & Destroy
Thanks for any advice :D
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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