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itunes sound problem

by ajikan81 Sep 15, 2005 1:01AM PDT

For some reason, the sound in itunes is choppy. When I play songs in other players, such as winamp, there is no problem, so I don't think it's a driver issue. Does anyone have any ideas? I need help!
Oh, and this just started two days ago after months of using itunes. I haven't made any recent changes to my computer, which is a windows machine. Thanks!

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But is it XP?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 15, 2005 1:13AM PDT

The first procedure I try is to flip the IDE channels to PIO, then back to DMA as noted at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx

Don't look. Do.

If you don't do it, please tell why since I need to finetune my responses to get others to accomplish this simple step.

Bob

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it is xp
by ajikan81 Sep 15, 2005 1:30AM PDT

and I guess I'll try that... although I have absolutely no idea what it means...

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If you get stuck, tell which step is at issue.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 15, 2005 1:38AM PDT

Best of luck,

Bob

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It works
by revclut Sep 27, 2005 2:26PM PDT

This method works perfectly. I looked all over the 'net for a solution and this is the only one that actually worked. Simple!

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Tried but did not work
by dorical Oct 11, 2005 1:14AM PDT

I tried the switching in the Device Manager as instructed but it did not work.
In the ATA/ATAPI properties, there are the Primary and Secondary IDE. The available options are:

Transfer Mode: DMA if Avaliable and PIO Only for Device 0 and 1

Tried change them and restarting, tried switching to PIO, then restart then change back to DMA for both Devices and both Primary and Secondary IDE.

Any ideas which part I missed?

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Very odd.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 11, 2005 1:40AM PDT

", then restart then change back "

The instructions provided do not include a "restart" step. Can you tell us what page you read this on?

Bob

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