Athlon 600/ASUS Motherboard - Cinematics (AVI files) & DVD choppy.

[quintak]

My cinematic movies or clips on my hard drive and/or DVD ROMs are all VERY choppy both in sound and picture.&nbsp;&nbsp;I used to have a P200 with an STB Video card and have had no problems playing back cinematics movies or clips that are stored on my Harddrive and the drive was slower too.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have the following setup and I have looked everywhere for a solution to this problem, but have been unable to find one.&nbsp;&nbsp;There should be absolutely NO EXCUSE for an AVI file or other formats to play back VERY choppy from a Hard Drive, but no solutions yet.<br><br>Athlon 600/Asus Motherboard<br>All-In-Wonder 128 Video Card (ATI) AGP<br>Western Digital 18GB Harddrive (split into 2 partitions at 9GB each)&nbsp;&nbsp;NO DEFRAGMENTED FILES exist. (IDE ATT66)<br>Sound Blaster AWE 64 GOLD Sound Card<br>128 MB Memory<br>Hitachi GD5000 DVD ROM Drive (8X w/ 24X for CDs)<br><br>I have done the following with no success:<br><br>Defragged the hard drive.<br>Partitioned the drive into 2 parts<br>Ran speed tests on DVD and its VERY FAST.<br>Checked all settings in BIOS and nothing out of the ordinary.<br><br><br>If anyone has any clue as to what the problem is I would certainly appreciate any help.<br><br>Thank you.<br>

 

[ladin]

I would check into your bios to make sure that the hard drive is detected as an ata66 and I would also make sure the dvd and the hard drive are on different ide channels because the dvd might slow the hd down. you can download this program called sandra 2000 from <A HREF="

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to do benchmarks on all parts of your system to see where the speed problem lies. Also make sure that your monitor has the proper refresh rates set and that you have the proper driver for your monitor and vidio card. <p>Ladin<br><a href=mailto:matchu_14@hotmail.com>matchu_14@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Tech support for 1 1/2 years, build computers, messed with C, HTML, Working on Flash, Role-Playing Game Junkie (Diablo2)

 

[Karl Blessing]

if you are using Software Decoding, this is somewhat expected, you cant always get it perfect on a software decoder. but I am unsure, is your ATI all in wonder card also an Mpeg DecodeR? because you need a hardware decoder to least get a DVD to run almost absolute perfect. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[quintak]

Ladin - Thank you I have checked the bios and it seems to be fine I will try that program you suggested and see if I can find any bottle necks.&nbsp;&nbsp;Right now the bottle neck of all the tests I have performed to date is pointing right at the CPU.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like KB244 I have gone through HELL and back with my Athlon system and have swapped out every part and it was the CPU as well for a different problem that I had when I got my system.&nbsp;&nbsp;Turns out it was the CPU as well and the new one works great (so I thought), but as you can see I have problems with cinematics and the drive doesn't seem to be the problem as the DVD player was removed and I still can't play a cinematic movie from the Hard Drive. <br><br>KB244 - The All In Wonder Card is a decoder as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Its the reason I bought the card, because it could decode, supports DVD player has excellent graphics and has a TV tuner.&nbsp;&nbsp;Its a great card that plays games like Flight Simulator 2000 extremely well no choppyness and the CPU can render things faster than the P2 and P3 Intel chips.<br><br>Thank you again for the suggestions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Still a little clueless about this system.&nbsp;&nbsp;What I have learned (2nd AMD System) is that I have had NOTHING but problems with with AMD systems and will probably not purchase another one again in the future.

 

[Karl Blessing]

I run an Athlon/825 , 512Meg rams, Geforce DDR(much better than your card when it comes to games and what not) but I have a 5X DVdrom, that uses the Dxr3 Hardware DVD decoder, I find independant hardware decoders to do much better, the Dxr3 can do upto 1600x1200 output(within desktop resolution) without a single skip at all. Makes a very nice Mpeg and VCD player as well. In the past um 10 years, I've own an Intel 458/25 SX for 5-6 years, then an Intel Pent/100, then that died, then went to a AMD K6-2/350, built a family computer throwing the 350 in theirs, and taking the 450 that came with the new Mobo, didnt cool that down quite enough (lasted me a good 6 months during the cold seasons hehe) then went to an Athlon/600 had a lot of problems, did many fixes, turns out the CPU was defective, and reseller wouldnt take it bac(icompz.com hate them :{) then got an Athlon/750 from monarchcomputer to replace my 600, overclocked it to 825 (using front side bus, so its more stress on the Rams than it is on the CPU) so basically I've been AMD + Nvidia ever since, if you dont mind me asking, what kind of power supply are you using?&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm sure it's also a Software problem, so updating drivers is advisible, and which player are you using, not all Software Decoders, will use the benefits of that ATI card. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[quintak]

I have a 300W Power Supply that was recommended by AMD.&nbsp;&nbsp;I too went through a lot of hassle getting this Athlon system to work.&nbsp;&nbsp;All drivers have been updated with the lastest software and still can't get it to work.&nbsp;&nbsp;If and when I have the time I may by a decoder, but regardless of the decoder simply AVI or MOV files that are loaded on a harddrive should play smoothly on my system, but they do NOT and are very choppy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Its very annoying.

 

[Karl Blessing]

How is your system setup btw, I have not had any problems, it may be the system configuration, and you may yet have to download the VIA Drivers(I may have said this already if the board host a KX133 chipset) <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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