Audiophile 2496 and choppy sound on CDplayer

[Marcos Alvira]

After installing a new 2496, I get choppy sound from my CD player (ASUS CD S480).My DVD/CD Writer Combo works fine. All tunes played from library are fine. Even rippining a song to my library from the ASUS works fine. Just playing a CD is horrible. The new driver for the SP3 is installed. Digital CD player is checked.

Very perplexing!
marcos

[picothinker]

IRQ conflict? Try a different slot for the 2496 perhaps.

[Eric Anderson]

Wow, I have not seen this problem in awhile.

I know we use to see this problem a lot in the dying years of Win98 and the early years of WinXP. Here was the fix.

Some CD-drives need to have the setting, " Enable Digital CD Audio," checked in their disk drive properties.

Goto the device manager select disk drives, right click on your CD Drive and choose properties, Then look for the " Enable Digital CD Audio, " check it and restart and you should be good to go.

If not, please reply to this thread and we'll see what else we can do!

[Marcos Alvira]

Howdy Folks,

Thank you for the advice. Changing the slot did not affect the problem. I also had the "Enable Digital CD Audio" checked. Again, no change.

Thanks though...and I'm open to other suggestions!

ma

[RiveraMan]

Hi there
I have the same problem playing an audio cd on my system when playing through windows media player.
BUT: in winamp it works!!
should be a setting somewhere but I haven't figured it out yet...

RiveraMan

Systemspecs:
Desktop ASUS P5RO-v Intel 945P Glan SATA Raid Intel PIV 650 3400 Mhz 2 GB PC-400 memory Kingston, Asus Extreme EAX300GE/TD 128 Mb on Windows XP SP2
SONAR 6.2.1 (and very proud of it)
M-Audio Audiophile 2496
M-Audio Triggerfinger
M-Audio MK 249c
BFD2 and loads of plugins

[Marcos Alvira]

Hey There RiveraMan,

It seems like such a simple problem, but it drives a guy nutty (nuttier in my case). I'll check out WInamp. Besides WMP, I've tried i-Tunes, and RealPlayer with no results. The ironic thing is that if, using the same CD drive, rip the CD tomy library., it plays fine there.

hmmm...

[JA]

Have you checked for firmware updates for your CD drives? Does everything play fine with the previous driver?

[Kelp]

I second JA's advice. I had this problem recently (although I'm running a Delta 66 & SP2) and it was definitely an IDE driver issue.

[Marcos Alvira]

I've been looking for a the driver. Seems like ASUS doesn't support it...I'll look around some more.

ma

[Kelp]

You have an ASUS motherboard in the Presario? I would go to the HP site (who bought Compaq) to look for drivers. And to be clear, my issue was with the IDE driver (vs. SATA, etc.).