Video Skipping

[MazdawgRollin]

Hello, i recently swapped my videocard out, to be re used at a later date, and i am temporarily using my onboard video. i have the drivers for it and everything, but any video i watch, whether it be a movie, or a music video skips. what could be the cause of this? thanks.

 

[Yeti]

Have you tried bumping up the memory it uses?

 

[Praetor]

What are the system specs? Sounds like PIO vs DMA here

 

[MazdawgRollin]

im running a p4b533 with a 2.26 cpu and 1/2gb ram which is down a bit because of my videocard. plenty of room on all hdd's.

 

[Praetor]

Yes but what mode are the drives running in?

To ensure your drives are operating in DMA mode: (1) Control Panel, (2) System, (3) Goto the Hardware Tab, (4) Device Manager, (5) IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, (6) Right Click on Primary IDE Channel --> Properties, (7) Goto the Advanced Settings Tab, Make sure both drop down boxes say 'DMA if Available', Click OK,(8) Right Click on Seconady IDE Channel --> Properties, (9) Goto the Advanced Settings Tab, Make sure both drop down boxes say 'DMA if Available', Click OK, (10) Reboot.

 

[MazdawgRollin]

i did what you said, and one was set in a different mode so it probably helped somehow, but it unfortunetly didnt solve my problem... thanks for the help tho man. any other ideas?

 

[MazdawgRollin]

through more searching i found that it ses max memory for video was 64mb, in use was only 16mb, how can i use all 64mb? i sound like a major noob, im realy not. but onboard video is new to me.

 

[Praetor]

Youll have to go into BIOS and change the video memory mapping to 64MB (do realize that this takes away from the memory available to the system). I suspect that your system may just "not be up to it" .. what are the specs?