Something weird happening with my sound

FroGGer

The sound plays perfectly in my friends computer except when:

A cd/dvd/cd-rom/dvd-rom starts spinning in the the DVD-ROM drive. for example, when in iTunes and importing a cd, the sound plays but does not play continuously. Same when I was installing Call of Duty 2 for him. the music plays in the background, but it was not playing continuously since the cd was in the drive spinning.
Could this be electrical interference or something?
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[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

Can you tell us more about what is happening.

You really didn't convey exactly what was occuring.
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FroGGer · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject:

basically, you can hear the sound normally if a cd is not spinning. If music is playing (or any sound for that matter) from the speakers while a disk is spinning transferring data to the computer then the sound coming through the speakers is not heard continuously. the sound is not conveyed continuously through the speakers. It sounds like there is interference.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

does it sound like its skipping?

If the music is playing from the CD....then when trying to read data from two different locations....the audio will skip.

If youre talking about playing music with iTunes...and also with another program, like installing software or anything else really....iTunes skips....its a resource hog, get used to it.
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FroGGer · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

no it happens in general. yes, it sounds like it's skipping. but it's not only in iTunes.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

Post your friends system specs for me?
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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject:

Abit AS-8 mobo

SAPPHIRE 100562L-GN Radeon 9600PRO 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X

Kingston ValueRAM 512MB (2 x 256MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM

LITE-ON Combo Drive Beige IDE Model SOHC-5235K-BGEOEM -

1 Intel Pentium 4 520 Prescott 2.8GHz LGA 775 Processor Model

Rosewill R114A-SLV Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W ATX with P4 support,
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

the HDD and Optical dont happen to be on the same IDE channel do they?
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FroGGer · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

I don't think so. I can't remember.
That's not much help but it's the truth
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smith.p.sean · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject:

what hes getting at is if both the hard drive and the cd rom drive are on the same ide channel, they might be overloading the board, sending to much info to it to handle smoothly. Open it up and if they are, move the cd drive to a secondary ide port. If they arnt, try disconnecting the sound line from the back of the cd drive to where it connects on the motherboard. it might just be giving your onboard sound problems.

I think that togglehead is right though. that would potentially cause problems.