comp slowdowns / glitches

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I have a Athlon 2200 with a ECS L7S7A2 mobo, 512mb RAM, GeForce4 MMX video card.
Running Windows XP.

I get cpu usage spikes at random times when running the comp. I notice it when I am playing music on winamp because for about a second the comp freezes, mouse does not redraw properly, music plays same note in a weird gittery fashion, video freezes for a second. All this happens for about a second, and everything back to normal. I get about 20 of these per day. Other than that my computer work great.

I checked for spyware with Adaware and Spyware Doctor, and using Norton Corporate edition with the latest virus definitions. No problems there.
I defragged my drives, and did disk/registry clean up with TuneUp Utilities.

I dont understand if its hardware malfunction or software bugs. Can anyone help???? Should I just reformat C: ?

Thanks a lot. :confused:
 
Are you doing anything while listening to music? Such as surfing, or opening programs, or simply typing on your keyboard? Sometimes little things like that will cause your HDD to spin up looking for data or writing data, and that will hinder your music playback.

What program are you using to listen to music? And is it from your HDD or a CD?
 
I used to have this problem....I would be listening to mp3's via winamp, open up firefox or something, and the computer would "halt" for a second. I ran checkdsk and defragged and the problem was solved.
 
weird

I am using Winamp 5.0 to play my mp3s off of the hard drive. Same thing happens when I play the mp3s with windows midea player. When I play divx movies the glitches happen too. Or when I surf the net, sometimes mouse skips.

I just cant really get a pattern down. I defragged and checked for errors.

Is it worth it to reformat the drive?
Do you think its hardware, or OS?
 
Get Winamp 5.1, it should e better.

It doesn't sound like Hardware or OS fault...more like drivers/software issues...

"Try the following DirectSound Output tweaks:

Winamp -> Prefs (Ctrl+P) -> Plugins -> Output -> DirectSound -> config:

Device tab:
-Make sure your sound card is selected as Device (c/o drop-down menu)
-Checkmark "enable hardware acceleration"

Buffering tab:
-Checkmark "enable cpu usage control"

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Still got problems?

Further out_ds config tips can be found | HERE | <-- read!

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If the problem is specifically with MP3 playback only,
then also try disabling the built-in Fast Layer 3 EQ

Prefs > Plugins > Input > Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder (in_mp3.dll) > config:
Decoder tab: Uncheck "Fast Layer 3 EQ"

Then try enabling the main Winamp EQ and boosting the bass end.

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Still got problems?

To help any further, we need to know some basic system specs, eg.
pc make/model or motherboard
cpu & ram (processor & memory)
sound card
graphics card
Windows OS
DirectX version (start -> run -> dxdiag)

Note: DirectSound Output requires DirectX v8 or higher
(current recommended version = 9.0c)

Please also confirm whether this was a clean installation of Winamp 5
or whether you installed on top of a previous 2.x version,
and whether you've installed any extra 3rd-party plugins.
If so, provide a list of all extra 3rd-party plugins installed.

And tell us whether the problem occurs when playing back all audio formats, or just the one, eg.
mp3, wav, ogg, mod, wma, midi, Audio CD...

Also bear in mind that the problem could be being caused by some other concurrently running app/process, but more than often it is caused by old/faulty sound drivers."
 
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