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Conjurer
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: Sound getting garbled |
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I was trying to listen to streaming music over the weekend and every few minutes the stream would garble on me.
After trying other channels I initially thought maybe it was my internet connection which is fiber optic and fairly fast.
Since then I have determined it happens even on things stored locally on my computer and even on things like the Windows tunes that play at start up and shut down.
I have two fairly new additions and am wondering which is more likely to be the problem. I added a 1 GB DDR to the machine this weekend - Crucial - and am running it with the other 512 DDR that I already had (moved to slot 2) also Crucial.
I recently removed AVG and went to AVAST antivirus.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
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k027
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Media files use a lot of resources. Since your problem is infrequent, it may be due to other programs/processes running in the background that momentarily use a large amount of resources.
Some things you might try doing include minimizing background programs/processes operating while you play media files and using and playing your media files in a media player that uses fewer resources.
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Conjurer
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: CPU spiking at 100% |
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What I have isolated so far:
I tried removing the antivirus, tried changing back to the 512MB, tried removing some other recent additions of software.
The thing that seems to be happening is that my CPU is spiking at 100%. This happens when I open anything and sometimes just on it's own.
When the spike occurs that is when the sound garbles on me.
Any ideas on why I would be getting 100% Spikes?
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CoxJeet
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Do you have windows automatic updates running in the background?
Have you check in task manager to see what application is causing the 100% cpu usage?
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conjurer
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: Trouble pinning it down - svchost.exe? |
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svchost.exe shows 31,356 mem useage, and peak mem uesage of 144,276
Does that seem normal? Could I have a rootkit and how do I test for that?
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Conjurer
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:28 am Post subject: |
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oh and yes, windows automatic updates was on, I just now turned it off to see if that will help.
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k027
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Conjurer
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Thanks, I will review that and see what the next steps are.
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