1010 LT distortion and stutter ONLY when playing a CD on internal Drive RESOLVED

[Mindpaint]

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
CPU Type: Intel Pentium III Xeon, 3000 MHz
Motherboard: EVGA nForce 730i
System Memory: 2816 MB
1010LT IRQ: 17 - ALONE
Optical Drive: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F


ANY CD player from Foobar 2000 to WMP

HELP! CD Playback is TERRIBLE... pops, slow/fast, drops, stuttering, distortion. All other audio, mp3 playback, Soundforge playing .wav files, Acid Pro recordings... ALL FINE!

Thanks!

[Mindpaint]

I fixed it late last night... here is the fix. The EVGA nForce 730i mobo has Six S-ATA II connectors from Intel south bridge and two S-ATA II connectors from JMicron’s JMB363 controller. My 1 TB RAID array was on the first pair of S-ATA connectors from the Intel Controller. My Boot/OS drive was on one of the ports in the second pair of S-ATA connectors from the Intel Controller, while my Optical drive which could not play CDs correctly was on the JMicron’s JMB363 controller.
I removed the optical drive from the JMicron’s JMB363 controller, and placed it on the second channel of the the Intel controller and everything is fine now. It might also be worth mentioning that when the optical drive was on the JMicron’s JMB363 controller, boot times were VERY long, over 2 minutes. Now the system boot times are closer to 30 seconds!!! A great unforseen benefit of moving off the JMicron’s JMB363 controller. I also disabled this "no longer used" controller in BIOS. Hope this helps others with similar issues. Here is a visual of what I did...
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[JA]

Glad to hear you figured it out; and thanks for sharing the details of the fix!