Win XP Sound & Graphics Stutter

[FrenchTVR]

As the title says, I am getting a stutter in sound and graphic display on my PC. The sound stutters on all types of playback, from the Windows start-up tune ot the playback of CD's. The graphic stutter shows when moving hte mouse around where it pauses for a fraction of a second then jumps to where it should be.
Makes it bloody awkward when using CAD.

I've had this before and ended up reloading the OS but would prefer to not have ot go all through that again. Has anyone any ideas please?

The machine spec is;
Supermicro X5DA8 Main board
Pentium Xeon 2.4Ghz Processors (2no.)
2Gb PC2100 DDR333 Ram
Matrox Parahelia 256 Graphics card
Onboard Sound
Onboard Intel Gigabit LAN (Connected)
Serial ATA Seagate 160Gb HDD
DVD Rw
CD
Windows XP Pro SP2 & All Updates.

Many thanks.

Mick

[flossythepig]

This appears to be a driver issue. I had similar problems when I first loaded XP Pro. Installed the latest drivers and the problem went away.

Hugh

[mcflurry]

Is something causing the pc to access the hard drive too often?

[FrenchTVR]

mcflurry said:

Is something causing the pc to access the hard drive too often?

Not that I'm aware of, it starts doing it on boot up as the Windows tune is playing.

I have most of the latest drivers for the hardware but I will check for newer versions.

[mcflurry]

I meant for example if your virus checker is checking stuff in the background, does it use too many resources, so there isn't enough left to play your music.

[FrenchTVR]

Hmm, intersting thought that. I'll try disabling it at some stage and see if that makes a difference.