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  • #1

    Strangest CD problem I ever had...

    This one has me utterly foxed, I hope someone here might have a clue about the cause.

    Ever since I built my machine I've had an odd problem with CD audio in Windows. CD audio in games, or any other kind of streamed media is fine but playing CD audio appears to take up 80% processor time. (ripping it is also fine)

    My system:

    Celeron 366@550
    128Mb 133MHz Memory
    Pioneer 6X DVD drive (IDE)
    Yamaha 6416 SCSI Cd burner
    Tekram 395U PCI SCSI card
    G400 8-)
    MX300
    ISA NIC

    I thought initially I had just screwed up winamp, but any CD player slows the system to the speed of a drugged snail.

    No IRQ conflicts as far as I can see (Had to do some fiddling to get the SCSI card happy)

    Win98 SE, Win98 pluspack

    Any ideas?

    Uberlad


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    8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
    5 out of 10 referred to me by name.
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  • #2
    Although I never encountered this problem, it COULD be the bad SCSI implementation of Windows 98. I've also had very odd problems with my Adaptec 2940UW and my Plextor Ultraplex-32.

    Just make sure you set the right speed of the CDROM in the SCSI BIOS (probably 10 or 20MBps), and set sysnc transfer on in the device properties in windows and in the SCSI BIOS (also known as synchronous transfer). But even if it works, it can behave odd after some time again. Disabling the sysnc in windows may then solve the problem again for a certain time....

    it seems a very odd solution, but windows just has a verty bad SCSI implementation (win2k SCSI implementation is much better)

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    • #3
      I'm assuming that you are using the pioneer for cd playback?

      Check the firmaware of your dvd drive. There is a known problem with revision 1.15 taking up to much processor to play audio cd. Changing to 1.16 or back to 1.14 fixes it.

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      Coppermine 600E @ 828mhz (138mhz FSB). Globalwin HSF (the hooge one with the air duct set to blow cold air in)Abit Bx6r2.128mb Winbond pc133, Iwill 2930u scsi, USR Message Modem external, SB Live!, pioneer dvd104s, hollywood plus dvd card, plextor 40x cd rom, Yamaha 8x4x32 CDR, Maxtor Diamond Max 30GB!!@ 7200rpm, G400 @ max settings. Win98/w2k Dual boot. All wrapped up in a big case with loads of fans. Belinea 10 30 40 17" monitor, FPS100 sound system.

      1st system

      Athlon AXIA Y 1Ghz @ 1.40Ghz, coolermaster hsf, Elite K7s6a, 512 MB Crucial DDR RAM, 20GB IBM 7200RPM Hard drive, Radeon 8500le 64mb, SB Audigy, 3 com 10/100NIC, 300w PSU, midi tower, FPS 1600 Surround, Belinea 17" monitor, Intellimouse explorer USB

      System 2

      Athlon TB 1.4 @ 1.5, Zalman Flower in silent mode, Elite K7S6A, 768MB DDRAM, Ati Radeon 8500le 64mb ddr, SB Audigy, 3Com 10/100NIC, 80GB IBM 7200rpm, Liteon 16 speed DVD, Lite-on 24102b CDRW, Songcheer Superwide, USB scanner, Intellimouse explorer, Microsoft keyboard, 19in iiyama Monitor, FPS1600

      system 3
      Abit ST6 RAID, Celly 1.2 @1.4 ,512MB SDRAM, Zalman Flower HSF noisey mode, ATi Radeon 8500le, SBLIVE, 3com 10/100 NIC, 80GB Seagate barracude HDD, 40GB IBM120GXP, 60GB IBM60GXP,Extra highpoint controller card, 16x Pioneer DVD, Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-RW, ATX Full tower case. 300w psu, 17in LG monitor, 20in Samsumg telly, epson stylus colour 880, 200W RMS Surround sound amp with Mission M71 Speakers.
      .

      System 4
      Elite K7S5A, Duron 1.0, 128mb sdram, Coolermaster hsf, 80GB 120GXP IBM, Liteon 16x DVD, Radeon 7200 64MB DDR, SBLIVE.

      Linksys 4 port router/firewall

      512k Cable modem. nice

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      • #4
        I'll check that firmware revision tonite, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it's the latest firmware 1.16.

        Did anyone do decent Vortex2 drivers for win2K yet? I think that's all that's holding me back at the moment...

        Uberlad

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        8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
        5 out of ten referred to me by name.
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        8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
        5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

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        • #5
          Sadly, Aureal looks like it will be very bankrupt soon. The entire management team was just fired

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          "The path of excess leads to the temple of knowledge"

          ABit BE6 II UDMA 66 w/ PentiumIII 500mhz
          Matrox G400 DH 32 meg MAX
          Maxtor 13gig UDMA66 7200 Seagate 9gig UDMA33 7200
          SBlaster Live Mp3+ (with gold connectors and robot voice
          Aureal Vortex SuperQuad2500
          19" PF790 Viewsonic (superb flat screen)
          19" Samsung 950p (amazing quality for the price)
          ACK 580 crdless k/b and mouse
          Panasonic 7585 CD RW 32x8x4
          Pioneer DVD 114 10x40x
          USR V90 ISA everything modem
          one big case fan and standard retail CPU/HS cooling from Intel
          a 3COM ADSL HOME CONNECT WARPMODEM



          [This message has been edited by bongo (edited 08 May 2000).]

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