Memory Issue

[EyeCandy]

Ok, this is my issue, playing Winamp, I scroll down my music, and it takes a second to upload the artists name, and song, etc. Winamp skips like its running out of memory. CPU usage under processes jumps to about 70% when I scroll down, These are the only windows open. I even formatted my hard drive, same problem..

Its a Pentium 4/Celeron 2.66 (Kinda old, but gets the job done)

Two Memory Sticks DDR - 1 GB and 512

Virtual Paging is set by the system, I think 3 gigs spread over 2 hard drives.

Windows XP

Any help is appreciated.

[clocker]

You say that CPU usage jumps but don't mention memory usage...yet you claim to have a memory issue.
Fuzzy thinking here.

You could have several things going on.
The mismatched memory jumps out but may be irrelevant.
You could remove the 512 module and see what happens.

It may be a disk access problem.
Is the music stored on a different drive that the OS?

Are you working with a full/legit version of Windows?

Could just be the whole platform is getting tired.

Maybe a different version of Winamp would work better (aren't there about a million of 'em now?).

[Detale]

Damn C you didn't leave anything for me to say.

When you reformatted did you do a reinstall?

[clocker]

Damn C you didn't leave anything for me to say.

When you reformatted did you do a reinstall?

Howcan you reformat a drive without wiping out the OS?

[EyeCandy]

You say that CPU usage jumps but don't mention memory usage...yet you claim to have a memory issue.
Fuzzy thinking here.

Yea, my fault, CPU usage does jump.

You could have several things going on.
The mismatched memory jumps out but may be irrelevant.
You could remove the 512 module and see what happens.

Well, the computer does recognize both memory sticks.

It may be a disk access problem.
Is the music stored on a different drive that the OS?

The music is stored on a different drive than the OS.
Funny, I didn't even mention that, could that really be an issue.

Are you working with a full/legit version of Windows?

Yes.

Could just be the whole platform is getting tired.

Maybe a different version of Winamp would work better (aren't there about a million of 'em now?).

Will try that, or even Foobar, everyone seems to be enthusiastic about.


Damn C you didn't leave anything for me to say.

When you reformatted did you do a reinstall?

Sorry, I didn't do a format, I pressed CTRL +F11, at startup, and brought it back to exactly how the computer was straight from the manufacturer. Like out of the box.

[Detale]

Maybe he reformatted the secondary drive and not the drive with the OS on it

[lynx]

My immediate thought is: What's the audio processor?

If it is one of the early onboard audio codecs then it is actually your cpu that's doing all the work. Consequently every time you do anything that needs a bit of processor power (even just moving the mouse) your audio gets interrupted.

You can solve that problem by buying an audio card with its own audio processor, not just a codec. They don't need to be too expensive.

Tip to others: concentrate on the problem, not what the person THINKS might be the cause.

[EyeCandy]

Consequently every time you do anything that needs a bit of processor power (even just moving the mouse) your audio gets interrupted.

This sounds almost exactly like the problem...

Its a Soundmax Integrated Digital Audio

[Detale]

My immediate thought is: What's the audio processor?

If it is one of the early onboard audio codecs then it is actually your cpu that's doing all the work. Consequently every time you do anything that needs a bit of processor power (even just moving the mouse) your audio gets interrupted.

You can solve that problem by buying an audio card with its own audio processor, not just a codec. They don't need to be too expensive.

Tip to others: concentrate on the problem, not what the person THINKS might be the cause.

I personally tend to have faith in others as they usually know what they did to their machine :)