Thread: Sound Driver problems.

Seems it's fixed.

Following the link I had above, I had to uninstall the primary IDE channel... then it installs itself as 'Ultra DMA Mode 5' instead of the 'PIO Mode' it had changed to.

And did you find the virtual basic script?

I tried to, first. But couldn't out what the hell I was supposed to do with it. Googling the comp name and problem brought up two others who had the same issue and fixed it by following this:

DMA reverts to PIO | Windows Problem Solver

Was good to go through all the different possibilities to learn about the different things.

Plus she'll probably put on the nurse's outfit and break out the lotion as a reward.

First off make absolutely certain you have exactly the right driver:

Unknown Device Identifier

THEN you can start pissing around with the settings.

All fixed, cheers Hazza.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

chkdsk. No problems found.

did you do a full surface scan ? mine was full of errors, disk was going bad, and the choppy sound was the first thing that give it away

Originally Posted by sabaii sabaii

Windows switches automatically to PIO after a number of disk errors are reported, as it's apparently a more stable reading method. Problem is, since it is slower, it can cause glitches like what we were experiencing, and it's particular to IDE drives,

see, told you, HDD going bad

Originally Posted by sabaii sabaii

This may resolve your issue, though if the disk is really going bad, Windows is likely to change it back to PIO after some time, and you may want to look into getting a new hard drive.

need to replace HDD as soon as possible after a full CHKDSK scan of the surface reveals possible bad sectors