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Sounds Skips Every 35-40 minutes
Hello, I've been having a problem with my audio skipping. This might be complicated so try to follow me.
I play audio through Winamp and feed it to an Orban Optimod PC-1101 card. The Optimod card is an audio processor and it shows up as a soundcard in Windows. So to feed the Optimod card, I have it selected as the output in Winamp (instead of speakers).
To hear the output from the Optimod card, it shows up as a recording device. In the properties menu I have selected "Listen to this device" and selected speakers as the playback device.
This works great most of the time but every 35-40 minutes the audio that I hear starts skipping for 3-4 minutes, then clears up. This will repeat 35-40 minutes later. I do not have anything I know of that runs every 35-40 minutes. There are no CPU, hard drive, or memory spikes when the skips start to occur. The audiodg.exe program on my computer does not have a memory leak or give me any problems (or so it seems).
I am sure the input is not skipping. I am also sure the Optimod card itself is not causing the skipping. The skipping is taking place somewhere between the Optimod output driver and the computer. This skipping happens when I stream the audio to another computer as well so it's not the main soundcard that's the problem.
I don't think it is the Optimod driver, but I could be wrong. I've been going back and forth with their support department and they insist their driver is fine and the problem is something on my end that doesn't have anything to do with the card itself. It could be the Optimod driver because this problem only happens when I use the Optimod card. I have not tried the "Listen to this Device" on other recording devices though because I have nothing to hook up to the microphone and line-in ports and the Stereo Mix is all fuzzy and messed up.
I have tried the following to fix this:
- Tried Kernel streaming the output from the Optimod card to the speakers using AudioRepeater (a program included in the Virtual Audio Cables package.. After this didn't work, I uninstalled VAC) Skipping is the same as when using the "Listen To This Device" method.
- Updated BIOS (this made the skipping worse, but not more frequent)
- Updated Optimod driver
- Updated main soundcard driver
- Uninstalled main soundcard drivers and Optimod drivers and reinstalled both.
- Tried older driver versions
- Tried disabling a device called "AMD High Definition Audio Device" but reenabled when it did not help clear up the problem.
- Tried an entirely different soundcard to feed the speakers incase it was a soundcard problem. Did not work.
- Updated video card drivers.
- Tried changing power settings from Balanced to High performance
- Made sure hard drives are running on DMA mode.
- Went through Black Viper's Website site and disabled a bunch of services (I used the "Tweaked" version)
- Tried feeding the Optimod input with other sources other than Winamp to make sure Winamp wasn't the problem. It wasn't.
- Tried disabling the On-Board LAN.
- Made sure Windows Update is all up to date (just installed Service Pack 1 yesterday)
- Tried disabling Norton Internet Security, both the anti-virus and firewall.
- Scanned the computer completely for viruses and spyware with Norton and Spybot Search and Destroy.
- Checked the latency using DPC Latency Checker. No spikes showed up when skipping started. The lines were always in the green.
- Started the computer in safe mode to try but apparently all sound devices are disabled in safe mode.
- Tried turning the priority of audiodg.exe from normal to realtime.
My computer:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
On-Board Sound: VIAź VT1828S (main soundcard that feeds speakers)
Orban Optimod PC-1101 audio processor (sounds passes through this card before going to main soundcard)
Intel i7 860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz Quad-Core
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 memory
ASUS P7P55D PRO motherboard
ATI Radeon HD 4830
Seagate ES.2 750gb
Seagate ST3250820AS
Western Digital WDC WD2500JD-22HBC0
Turtle Beach Montego DDL (Drivers installed but disabled through Device Manager)
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W Power supply
Does anyone have any suggestions? I've tried every suggestion I've found on the internet and I feel I'm stuck. I really want this fixed, the skipping is annoying.