Songs Skipping?

June 13, I bumped this instead of making a whole new post about the same issue, please read last post newest update/issue

Ok I took my digital camera and recorder what it sounds like. You hear the skipping sound very well, now when you hear it skipping all I'm doing is moving my mouse and opening up a different folder. The only programs open are Evil Player and FireFox NOTHING else. So I hope this helps.

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I guess this question could go in a few forums, but this one seems about the best.

Here is the deal my brother just gave me his old intel D Dell computer as a back up I believe it is a Dell Dimension 1100, but I could be wrong (he changed cases). It already had an 80 gig Hd in there that has all the windows files on it. Well I took my other 80 gig drive full of music and put it in there because I plan on using this PC for storage. So today I go to play some music and for some reason the songs are kind of skipping. Every few seconds you hear it studder and it is getting really annoying now.

I ran Hitachi Check software to see if for some reason the drive was corrupted but it came back as OK. Here is what I have done already

1. Hitachi Fitness test

2. A few different Media Players

3. Closed everything running in the background

4. Defragged

5. Tried 3 different sets of speakers

6. Updated XP

None of the above fixed the issue, so I really dont have a clue what else I can try, any ideas?


Oh here is what makes up the PC

NEC DVD Burner
NEC DVD Drive
E210882 Motherboard
2 Hitachi 80G HD's
Intel Pentium D 2.54 Processor
250 Watt OEM Dell Power Supply
512MB Ram (now has 1.5GB ram)
Onboard Audio and Video


Also another funny thing is I just burned a CD and it works fine no skipped, jump nothing.

did you check all the songs..and all of them were skipping?

there is an auto-skipping (not sure about the name) function in some media players...if you can't find it...just reinnstall your player and it will return to default set-up...



if the song just stops and skipp, has some other reasons btw:-

• the link is broken (if the file is just linked and not saved)
• the file is not downloaded completly
• the file is broken
• the file is not on your pc any more

hope this helps

Every single song on both drives skips and I'm using Evil Player which I updated already.

In addition to the list of things above that I have already done here is a few more.

Changed IDE cables and ports

unhooked the slave drive

ran avast, AVG, Antivir, Norton 2006

Tried a PCI sound card

Nothing seems to be working. I'm running out of ideas at this point.

I've just installed your player to test it...I get the same problem...

so I think the problem is in the player...change your player

windows media player (latest version) works fine for me btw..

you'll find it here

Thats funny because I tried it on Urge and Quicktime and it still did the samething

my onboard sound skips

make sure you're using the right drivers

for instance, my onboard is ritek hi-def, but it'll let me install the ritek 880 drivers, which causes skipping

reinstall the drivers 1st, and if it's still skipping, get yourself a $19 sound card, and call it a day, i give it my gaurantee to fix the problem

my computer's a 3.6 prescott with a gig of 333 ram, and the onboard STILL causes all hell to unleash

a sound card is a VERY wise investment

The other day I went and bought Sound Blaster Audigy SE and it is STILL freaking doing it. I'm starting wonder if it is the PSU, because it is only 250 Watts. I wonder if the drives are being under powered.

it's a driver issue

when you tried the sound blaster did you go into the bios and disable the onboard audio?

Yes Sir

i don't know, then

like i said, i HAVE had a similar problem when i installed the 880 drivers for my onboard.....

what onboard sound is it, out of curiosity? IS it a ritek device by any chance?