Movie playback skips, not a newbie question

[kallekill]

I am getting really tired of my new computer. My old Pentium III 558 Mhz run all movies just fine, but I have bought a new faster computer, a Pentium 4 at 1.6 Ghz. I have a Asus P4B266-se motherboard and I have spent a vast amount of time to get it working. First I got constant reboots, but after much troubleshooting found out that IBM's latest harddrive was incompatible with the P4B266. Now I got this problem when I watch movies. Maybe one time/movie it skips about a second, both the audio and the picture. I have a friend with a AMD processor that has the exact same problem and we don't have a single card in common. I've tried everything except sacrificing a chicken on the keyboard. I have tried different harddrives, video cards, network cards, audio cards and removed the scsi removed and the floppy drive. I've also run memorychecks for several hours and tried with both windows 2000 and windows xp. The movie is running just fine and you think that you have solved the problem and then suddenly it skips. I noticed that when I watch a dvd, instead of skipping it pauses for a few seconds and then continue.

I am not using the onboard sound, but I tried it the other day and it sounded really horrible, with a lot of noise when the harddrive was working. I have also the problem that sometimes when I start the computer it can't find the floppy drive during POST and I have to reset a few times before it can find it.

Has someone experienced the same problem with movies skipping? Help would be really appreciating, because the next step I’m thinking of is getting a new motherboard.

[a3ternus]

Maybe it ll sound silly,but maybe the reason is software related ?!?
Maybe its the movie file itself ?!? Does it play ok and smooth on ather computers ?!?
Have you tried using AVIRESETALL.reg available in doom9 download page (Stupid maybe but helped EVERY TIME my videos were skepping in WMP 6.4) ?!?
Try these and tell me if anything helped you...I m sure that in the end we ll find what the problem is...
NikitaS.

[kallekill]

Thanks for the reply. It could have something to do with software because I don't get the problem in Windows Me. Only Win 2000 and xp.

There is nothing wrong with the movie itself, because if I rewind the movie and play the part again there is no skip this time. I haven't tried AVIRESETALL.reg but i got the same skippingproblem with a clean install of xp so i don't think it would help (What does that .reg file do exactly?). I have installed the latest detonator drivers 40.72 and new audigy-drivers and i have seen two movies in windows 2000 without a problem so maybe that helped, but i'm not sure yet. I have a theory that it could be my Asus Motherboard that is the problem becasuse both me and my friend, who also has the skipping problem, has a Asus motherboard. And I have had problems with my motherboard before. I'll get back when I have watched some more movies so that I know for sure if the driver updates did the trick.

[kallekill]

Changing the drivers didn't help. I'm seriously thinking of getting a new motherboard because I can't see any other solution. I'm just a little worried that I'm going to pay 150 $ for a new motherboard and find out that it didn't help.

[omol]

Originally posted by kallekill
Changing the drivers didn't help. I'm seriously thinking of getting a new motherboard because I can't see any other solution. I'm just a little worried that I'm going to pay 150 $ for a new motherboard and find out that it didn't help.

Try a Creative sound card other than Creative's to see if it helps.

regards,
omol

[kallekill]

I have tried both a Soundblaster Live and Audigy and I don't have a non creative soundcard. I would still like to use EAX sound in games which only creative cards support. Even if it helped switching to a non-creative card I think it would be my motherboard that has problems with the creative-cards and not the cards themself that is the problem. My IBM drive worked perfectly in other computers but it didn't work on a Asus P4B266 so I think that it is the motherboard that is to blame. I would try changing the audiocard if I had another card, just to see if it helped, but I still think I would change the motherboard so that I can use a creative card.

Isn’t there someone else that has a relatively new Asus motherboard with a creative card and a Geforce card? I would like to hear if anyone else has the same problem.

[omol]

Originally posted by kallekill
I have tried both a Soundblaster Live and Audigy and I don't have a non creative soundcard. I would still like to use EAX sound in games which only creative cards support. Even if it helped switching to a non-creative card I think it would be my motherboard that has problems with the creative-cards and not the cards themself that is the problem.

But you do realize their soundcard drivers sucks, don't you? E.g. SMP hostile, ACPI hostile....etc. BTW, EAX 1.0 is not limited to Creative cards only.

regards,
omol