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    Weird Audio Skpping - Asus F3

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hypdotspec, Jul 7, 2007.

  1. hypdotspec

    hypdotspec Notebook Evangelist

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    I've got an Asus F3T that I love, except that my sound skips occasionally, regardless of which audio player I use. And now recently, my sound just cuts in and out of LOTRO.

    I'm not doing any CPU intensive work. I'm sitting here just browsing the web and my music just skips - stutters - for no reason.

    I have all the latest nforce drivers (nforce 430/410 drivers), and the latest Realtek drivers (the outdated Asus ones do the same).

    I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas for me. Thanks

    Asus F3T
    Turion TL-56
    2GB DDR2
    Geforce Go 7600
     
    hypdotspec, Jul 7, 2007
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  2. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You might get a little more help over in the Asus forum.

    Anyways.

    1. Do you have the latest Realtek Drivers? (1.70 I believe).

    2. Do you have UAA (Universal Audio Architecture) installed.

    3. Make sure your machine is not set to maximum battery life, it may cause audio skipping while you load a web page because the CPU load gets high due to the the webpage rendering and since its not at full power may cause some of the CPU power dedicated to playing music to be momentarily transferred to rendering the web page.
     
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  3. emperorwizard

    emperorwizard Newbie

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    Check to make sure that your speakers are still functioning normally. One test is to see how much the songs skip dependent on volume levels. At higher volumes, the sound quality will diminish and the skips will be more frequent. Although speakers failing in laptops are unusual, these symptons appear in headphones and external speakers quite frequently. Also, see if the songs skip when you aren't doing anything else or if it gets worse when you start multitasking; then its probably a software issue
     
    emperorwizard, Jul 10, 2007
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  4. hypdotspec

    hypdotspec Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm going to assume its a software issue now because I wiped XP and but Vista on it (yea... i know) and I don't seem to have as many problems as I did before.
     
    hypdotspec, Jul 11, 2007
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    Greven Newbie

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    Have you updated BIOS? I was updating the other day and BIOS update mentioned music stuttering issue.

    I also have F3 but haven't had any audio issues.
     
    Greven, Jul 12, 2007
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  6. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    Which software do you use? Probably software if you have ruled out drivers, potential conflicts or resource use >>>

    I run an Edirol UA-25 sound card > RS Tomahawk amp > Westone UM2 (with asio) and for the life of me couldn't figure out why there were jumps and skips in the music. Finally found out I had to change the thread priority under Foobar playback settings. Now beautiful, faultless music

    Just a tad quick to go to the lengths of a reinstall :p
     
    LFC, Jul 12, 2007
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