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Jan 13th, 2005 04:30 PM | |||||
Dulled by Excess | If the drive is suffering from a case of physical damage, then you might just be S.O.L. If the utility finds bad sectors or the like, the most it can do to "fix" the problem is mark the sectors as bad so they're no longer written to. | ||||
Jan 13th, 2005 03:45 PM | |||||
soundtest |
The same thing happens in iTunes and Windows Media Player, so I don't think it's a Winamp specific problem. The info you found (thanks btw Willie ) made me think it might be a virtual memory issue for the F: drive so I increased its virtual memory to 500Mb (from nothing, it was all allocated to the C: drive before). Still no improvement. I downloaded a utility for Quantum/Maxtor drives that will check disk integrity, so I guess I'll give that a shot. It demands that I have a formatted floppy disk in the drive before launching, and I haven't used a floppy disk in like 2 years, so I'll have to wait until I find one. What would a utility like this do though, whoreable? Will it just tell me if the drive is messed or can it actually repair it? The only other 2 things I can really think of are switch it to the primary IDE bus or format it. POS drive |
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Jan 13th, 2005 01:27 PM | |||||
whoreable | my best bet is still to run the manufacturers hdd diagnoatics | ||||
Jan 13th, 2005 02:17 AM | |||||
executioneer |
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Jan 13th, 2005 02:06 AM | |||||
executioneer | hell i am stumped :/ yeah i would try slaving it to your primary and see fi that helps : | ||||
Jan 13th, 2005 01:22 AM | |||||
soundtest |
It's the only device connected to it. I was thinking of replacing it as the slave on my Primary IDE... could it be my Secondary is slightly fucked? I've tried Winamp 2.x, Winamp 5, and iTunes, but as whoreable said, if that were the case, they would stutter when played from the primary drive as well. I'm sharing this drive on my LAN and that's it. This problem occurred before it was shared though... |
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Jan 12th, 2005 09:16 PM | |||||
Alive | You sharing out that drive/folder of music with, lets say kazaa or another p2p? | ||||
Jan 12th, 2005 08:39 PM | |||||
whoreable |
then why would they work on his primary hdd? are there any other devices on the same cable as that drive? |
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Jan 12th, 2005 08:23 PM | |||||
Mad Melvin | Have you tried playing the Mp3s with any other program than Winamp? What version is your winamp? Winamp 5 uses a lot more RAM than the previous versions, so you might want to try an older one. | ||||
Jan 12th, 2005 08:11 PM | |||||
whoreable |
maybe run quantum/maxtor drive diagnostics. pretty sure xp enables dma and write caching automatically, so that probaly wont help, but you can check in device manager sorry i didnt read much else so i might have missed if you tried these things. |
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Jan 12th, 2005 08:04 PM | |||||
executioneer |
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Jan 12th, 2005 04:47 PM | |||||
Dulled by Excess |
Hmm... I have my doubts as to how much you'd be able to compress mp3's. You're right, though, in that you shouldn't have a problem playing mp3's from that drive at all. If you have a CD-RW drive and a spindle o' CD's, you could always just back them up to CD and try reformatting. If you don't have a CD-RW drive, well, fortunately they're relatively affordable. For what it's worth, I too have a Quantum Fireball 20GB drive (or, in my case, had) that held all of my emulators and ROMs. It has since died, and has been reduced to nothing more than a shiny paperweight. Ever since that fiasco, I have come to the conclusion that Quantum drives are a useless waste of cash (and while I'm at it, be wary of purchasing Maxtor drives, you may end up with a Quantum drive instead). If you haven't backed up your mp3 collection, I'd do so ASAP. |
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Jan 12th, 2005 03:54 PM | |||||
MetalMilitia |
I expect you could save a few GB by RARing up the albums. Or you could use this as an excuse to buy yourself a nice new 20gb IPOD (or similar mp3 player) and use that for temp storage while you format. or... You could download sisoft saundra (sp?), i believe that has utilities for testing HDD speed etc. It also gives you tips on how to improve performace which might help. :/ |
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Jan 12th, 2005 03:46 PM | |||||
soundtest | It's the Secondary Master in my system. The drive is a 20GB QUANTUM FIREBALL. It's not super new, and I see what you're saying, but this isn't a 2GB relic from the Pentium II days. This drive should not be struggling with .mp3 playback. Background apps have nothing to do with this problem, and Windows did not find any errors on the drive. Again, I don't see how RAM would be an issue if the same files play back fine from the other drive. I'll get around to formatting the drive eventually, but my other drive doesn't have enough space for all 20GB, so it won't be anytime soon. | ||||
Jan 12th, 2005 11:39 AM | |||||
MetalMilitia |
Move all the MP3s onto another HDD -> Do a low level format of the 20gig -> move them back. That might do it. :/ |
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Jan 12th, 2005 10:57 AM | |||||
Dulled by Excess |
If you're able to play mp3's from your primary drive, adding more RAM isn't likely to be the solution. Adding more RAM is still never a bad idea, though. How do you currently have the drive set up (Primary Slave, Secondary Master/Slave)? Do you know the drive's specs (speed, cache)? How old is this drive? Was the problem fixed earlier by closing TSR's and background apps? What did the XP Disk Checker find (it's most likely running chkdsk)? Any bad sectors? "Back in the day", mp3 playback was considered extremely resource-intensive, but if your machine is anywhere near recent, you shouldn't have any problems playing mp3's. Likewise, if your machine runs windows XP and has at least 128MB RAM (although I wouldn't recommend anything less than 256MB), you shouldn't have any problems playing mp3's. |
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Jan 12th, 2005 01:14 AM | |||||
AChimp | Yeah, you'd expect something like that to only happen when you're running lots of stuff... RAM might be the problem like Ninja said. | ||||
Jan 12th, 2005 12:15 AM | |||||
Ninjavenom | Try adding more RAM. I had a similar problem until i added more (128 + 128) and upgraded from win98. | ||||
Jan 11th, 2005 11:42 PM | |||||
soundtest |
Alive: No. AChimp: If that were the case, wouldn't the problem only occur if my computer was doing system demanding tasks? I really doubt that this is an issue with resources. My computer is by no means top shit, but this issue occurs all the time, and always the same way (no varying degrees). I'm doing the XP "Disk Checker" thing now (is this just Scan Disk?) and it's taking forever. Not that I think this will really tell me anything useful. |
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Jan 11th, 2005 11:12 PM | |||||
Alive | It basicly comes down to a data access problem, it very well may be that the drive you have your mp3's on is maxed out to capacity and windows likes to have a few megs left over to work with when it comes to virtual memory and read/write functions. | ||||
Jan 11th, 2005 09:06 PM | |||||
AChimp | The drive is probably slower than your main drive. As far as I know, as well, slave drives run slower than master drives because they are sharing the same IDE channel. Your main HD is still being accessed while Winamp is playing the MP3, and if you don't have a lot of RAM, there will be more disk accesses. | ||||
Jan 11th, 2005 08:53 PM | |||||
MetalMilitia | What kind of drive is it? something pulled out of an old POS pc? | ||||
Jan 11th, 2005 08:39 PM | |||||
soundtest | Opened it up and the jumper was set correctly. I decided to try every other combination anyway just for fun and, not surprisingly, it still didn't help. Swapped IDE cables, still the same problem. I'm ready to accept that this drive is just a piece of shit. | ||||
Jan 11th, 2005 08:02 PM | |||||
executioneer | i think i remember having performance issues only when it was not jumpered right, maybe it was from having both drives set to master :/ | ||||
Jan 11th, 2005 03:43 PM | |||||
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