problem: audio skips and video tries to catch up...

[Burlington Berty]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out,

I recently upgraded my computer from a P3-450 to a Duron 1.3GHz. Before upgrading I had previously had no problems with audio or video playback, now however....

Whenever I play any sort of video I get intermittant audio skips at random points. When I'm watching anything encoded with MPEG2 the video jumps forward instantaneously to match the sound, and when I watch any sort of divx type video the action speeds up in a comedy Benny hill style to catch up! The skips don't seem to be related to any other things going on on my PC (i.e. hard disk or network access)

Also when listening to some .ASF recordings of DJ mixes I get the same audio skips. However I get no such problems playing mp3s in winamp.

Specs:
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Duron 1.3GHz
256Mb DDR2100
Gigabyte 7DXE Mobo
GeForce2
Creative 4.1 Soundcard
IBM Deskstar 40GB HD
XP Pro

Things I have tried to correct the problem:
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Removed and reinstalled various codecs
Upgraded video drivers.
Upgraded sound drivers.
Reduced hardware acceleration for video.
Tried several different players (WMP, bsplayer, powerDVD)
reinstalled respective players
Messing around wth DMA settings.

I don't particularly want to have to reinstall XP again (seeing as microsoft has made it such a pain to do).

What do you guys think? Hardware conflict? Software glitch?A group of devious monkeys insde my PC out to ruin my movie watching experience?

I'm inclined to think it's some audio problem, but I don't know what.

[Prospero424]

Well, I'm not sure, but this may have something to do with switching platforms (Intel to AMD) and not reinstalling WIndows. What I would do is first, re-apply the latest XP service pack, then reinstall the latest DirectX version (DX9) then (and I know you have already doen this, But I would suggest doing it again after you apply these changes) reinstall your latest video card drivers.


Let me know how it goes,

Prospero