hiccups - audiophile card

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I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card and it is playing sound with hiccup-like sound. I am using the newest M-Audio driver, I tried several latency values (including the maximum and minimum), set the sample rate to 44100, but no luck. When I watch a DVD movie, it plays ok in the first minute or so and then the hiccups start. Any hints on how to fiz that?
Thank you in advance.

[TimOBrien]

Is your hard drive full or have you never defragmented it???

Sounds like your system just can't keep up with the data flow... a too-full or messy system drive will do that.

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A little more info on your system specs would be nice, but in the meantime you can try this......Open up the 'Device Manager' and look for your DVD drive in the tree, right click on the DVD drive and select properties. In the window that opens select the properties tab and look to see if 'Digital Audio' is checked(enabled)....if so, uncheck this box(disable it)....this may solve your issue.

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......You should also check to make sure that your DVD-Rom devices Transfer mode is set to DMA and not PIO. To do this, in the device manager open up the tree that says 'IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller'. There you will see both the Primary and Secondary controllers. Right click on the controller that the optical drive is connected to and select 'properties'. Select the 'Advanced Settings' tab in the opening window to see what mode you are in.....Hard drives should be set to DMA mode 5 or 6 and opticals should have a transfer mode of DMA 2.

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Thank you for your replies. I didn't understand why I should bother with the DVD settings (such as DMA or PIO) if the huccups occur with any files, even those on the hard disk like .WAV or .MP3 files. As for my system setup, I defragment my HDs every week and the system specs are:
Pentium-4, 2.8MHz with 1.0 GigaByte Ram. 3 HDs have plenty of room (over 50 gigabytes free space each). My weakest spot is my video card that has only 32 megabytes (AGP), but I've been told that unless I play games in my PC, that doesn't matter at all. Well, other hints to fix the audio hiccups are still welcome.

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Thank you for your replies. I didn't understand why I should bother with the DVD settings (such as DMA or PIO) if the huccups occur with any files, even those on the hard disk like .WAV or .MP3 files. As for my system setup, I defragment my HDs every week and the system specs are:
Pentium-4, 2.8MHz with 1.0 GigaByte Ram. 3 HDs have plenty of room (over 50 gigabytes free space each). My weakest spot is my video card that has only 32 megabytes (AGP), but I've been told that unless I play games in my PC, that doesn't matter at all. Well, other hints to fix the audio hiccups are still welcome.

Sorry, I was under the impression that your issue was only occuring during playback of Optical drive(CD/DVD). Have you made sure to uninstall all drivers from the previous soundcard that you were using? Have you looked at your IRQ assignments? A good bet is that your video card or a USB Devices like a printer and soundcard may be sharing an IRQ. What OS are you running?

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I have 2 sound cards in my PC and I use both of them, so I can't unistall or disable one of them. By the way, the other sound card is on board (mobo). I noticed that they were sharing the same IRQ (18) and then I disabled the other card temporarily to see if the problem would go away, but it didn't.
I'm running Win-XP professional. Thank you, so far.

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The problem is clearly one of conflict between the two cards....you need to choose one as your default card. If your using the audiophile for everything, then it makes no sence to have both, uninstall the on-board soundcard...your troubles will disappear.

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....if you want to use both cards, you'll need to go with one card or the other per application....ie.DVD/CD playback: on-board sound; recording: audiophile.etc. Why the need for both cards? Why not just go with the audiophile for all things?