audiophile 2496 problems

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For some reason, when i play cd's back on my system, the sound skips, kind of like when the buffering is too low in an audio program. I increased the buffering(which was my first thought) and it still skips. I have 768 mb of ram so that shouldn't be the problem. The cd drive worked excellent until after i installed the audiophile. What's strange is that when i hit the eject button, the cd starts to play right until the cd ejects. What do yall think the problem could be?
 
I've tried playing cd's in windows media player, and roxio audio central.
 
Not sure what it is. I assume you are playing back digitally.

How is the CD player? Dirty lenses maybe? Although the coincidence with installing the Audiophile would indicate otherwise.

Have you installed the latest drivers? Does it do it after a fresh reboot?
 
Cd player is the stock one that came with the comp. I cleaned the player with a lens cleaning cd and it remained the same. I also updated the drivers for the soundcard and it has not changed. It does the same thing on fresh reboot. I'm confused to what it could be. I don't know if you caught what i said earlier, but when i hit the eject button for the cd to come out, it'll play perfect for the few seconds until it comes out! This is really weird stuff. :confused:
 
I'd guess that before you fitted the Audiophile, CD playback was over a seperate cable direct to the previous playback device. With the Audiophile, CD playback must be by "Digital Audio Extraction" which works over the hard drive (IDE) type data cable. This depends on very much on whether the CD/DVD drive is running in PIO or a DMA mode. To work well, it must and ought to be DMA. Note that some copy-protected discs, usually games, deliberately have errors which can make the computer switch DMA off and use the much slower PIO instead!

Read "Check your IDE port mode" in this link...
http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm
 
Great post man!!! You made me reminisce about networking class!! I should know this stuff but i changed my major and forgot it all. Thanks for the help!
 
Jim Y said:
I'd guess that before you fitted the Audiophile, CD playback was over a seperate cable direct to the previous playback device. With the Audiophile, CD playback must be by "Digital Audio Extraction" which works over the hard drive (IDE) type data cable. This depends on very much on whether the CD/DVD drive is running in PIO or a DMA mode. To work well, it must and ought to be DMA. Note that some copy-protected discs, usually games, deliberately have errors which can make the computer switch DMA off and use the much slower PIO instead!

Read "Check your IDE port mode" in this link...
http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm
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Could not of said it better myself! good post... ;)
 
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