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Kaelon
March 28th, 2002, 06:10 PM
Ok Guys - I just hooked up 2 monitors to my computer! Very nice! I have one monitor on a Voodoo 5 pci and one on a GeForce 2 agp. My problem is that when I play music, I like to drag windows media player over my second monitor but if I drag a window over to that second monitor and minimize it (or restore it for that matter) it makes a scratching sound on the speakers and skips the music a little. It sounds almost like scratching an old record. If I were to minimize the window on the primary monitor it doesn't make the sound.
Any ideas??? Thanks all.
-Kaelon
fyi: I have a 1.3 ghz tbird, 256 megs memory. Any more info needed I will gladly post.
MacGyver
March 28th, 2002, 06:14 PM
Try turning off the visualization in WMP.
Kaelon
March 28th, 2002, 06:15 PM
No luck with visualizations. :( I just tried to reproduce the same scratching sound in realplayer and I was able to so I think we can rule out a problem with media player.
-Kaelon
AlienDyne
March 29th, 2002, 02:16 AM
How about DirectX then? Why don't you download and install its latest version. This is a software-related problem which is probably caused by either DirectX, or a device driver.
Quiet Thunder
March 29th, 2002, 07:43 AM
ALso, check your sound card drivers. Make sure they're up-to-date. You could always try the old fashioned CD Player. Dosn't use near the same amount of resources as Media Player, and will probably give you a LOT less problems.
Kaelon
March 29th, 2002, 05:16 PM
Well I did a little bit of testing and it appears to be the voodoo card. I would have no idea why but my assumption is that it is. Thanks for all the help.
-Kaelon
Larommi
March 31st, 2002, 12:41 PM
Sounds like your card is making noise. Nothing surprising as I have heard everything in a computer make a noise. try making sure that no cables are routed by the video card. Especially, the sound cable for your cdrom. As far as the mp3 skipping the only thing I can think of is you stole a cpu cycle. Do you have active desktop turned on?