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CD Player acting funny
I was using Windows 98 for quite a while, but my hard drive crashed recently
and I've since gotten a new hard drive and have upgraded to Windows ME. With Win98, I used "CD Player" to listen to audio CDs, and I was very pleased with it; no problems at all. I did not use Media Player for this, as I kept hearing intermittent pops, clicks and gaps. With CD Player, however, it was nice and clean, no matter what else I was running on the computer. With ME, however, I get the same poor audio quality with its CD Player. I thought perhaps using another program to play audio CDs would help, and I downloaded some freeware, but it didn't help much. I think whatever runs the CD software gets interrupted by heavy CPU use. I did not have this problem with Win98; no hardware is different. All I did was upgrade to Win ME. I'm wondering if I'll simply have to get a faster motherboard. This one is over four years old and is running at about 900 MHz. I have 256 MB of RAM. I don't think it's a bad CD reader, as it worked fine previously. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!!! Matt J. McCullar |
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You certainly shouldn't need to upgrade the motherboard - 900MHz is way fast
enough for ME, and 256MB RAM is enough also. I suspect that your problem is likely to be due to poor drivers - try updating the drivers for the sound card/chip from the manufacturer's website, and see if that helps. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Matt J. McCullar" wrote in message news I was using Windows 98 for quite a while, but my hard drive crashed recently and I've since gotten a new hard drive and have upgraded to Windows ME. With Win98, I used "CD Player" to listen to audio CDs, and I was very pleased with it; no problems at all. I did not use Media Player for this, as I kept hearing intermittent pops, clicks and gaps. With CD Player, however, it was nice and clean, no matter what else I was running on the computer. With ME, however, I get the same poor audio quality with its CD Player. I thought perhaps using another program to play audio CDs would help, and I downloaded some freeware, but it didn't help much. I think whatever runs the CD software gets interrupted by heavy CPU use. I did not have this problem with Win98; no hardware is different. All I did was upgrade to Win ME. I'm wondering if I'll simply have to get a faster motherboard. This one is over four years old and is running at about 900 MHz. I have 256 MB of RAM. I don't think it's a bad CD reader, as it worked fine previously. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!!! Matt J. McCullar |
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In Device Manager, look at the Properties for your CD-ROM and see if it has
been set for Digital CD Playback. If so, disable it and see if that improves things. Mart "Matt J. McCullar" wrote in message news I was using Windows 98 for quite a while, but my hard drive crashed recently and I've since gotten a new hard drive and have upgraded to Windows ME. With Win98, I used "CD Player" to listen to audio CDs, and I was very pleased with it; no problems at all. I did not use Media Player for this, as I kept hearing intermittent pops, clicks and gaps. With CD Player, however, it was nice and clean, no matter what else I was running on the computer. With ME, however, I get the same poor audio quality with its CD Player. I thought perhaps using another program to play audio CDs would help, and I downloaded some freeware, but it didn't help much. I think whatever runs the CD software gets interrupted by heavy CPU use. I did not have this problem with Win98; no hardware is different. All I did was upgrade to Win ME. I'm wondering if I'll simply have to get a faster motherboard. This one is over four years old and is running at about 900 MHz. I have 256 MB of RAM. I don't think it's a bad CD reader, as it worked fine previously. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!!! Matt J. McCullar |
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"Mart" wrote in message ... In Device Manager, look at the Properties for your CD-ROM and see if it has been set for Digital CD Playback. If so, disable it and see if that improves things. Man alive, you guys are AWESOME!!!! Clicking off that box did the trick!!!! Now Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" is playing glitch-free!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! Matt J. McCullar |
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You're welcome Matt, - the 'T'-shirt is on it's way and the book's out next
year g Mart "Matt J. McCullar" wrote in message om... "Mart" wrote in message ... In Device Manager, look at the Properties for your CD-ROM and see if it has been set for Digital CD Playback. If so, disable it and see if that improves things. Man alive, you guys are AWESOME!!!! Clicking off that box did the trick!!!! Now Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" is playing glitch-free!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! Matt J. McCullar |
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