new 8RDA, same IDE issues...

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Originally posted by MrBling
I'm experiencing a similar problem, whenever the cd-rom drive is reading data everything starts stuttering and the sound gets distorted. And this is Win2K SP3 with all the pre-SP4 hotfixes.
I've upgraded the nforce2 drivers with the ones from the epox site, but to no avail.


*EDIT* Well, Occams Razor sure owned me this time. Apparently Windows thought that my cdrom drive should run in PIO mode instead of DMA, the problem is gone now. :) *EDIT*

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yeah, all my drives are running DMA, so that's not the issue here...

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Originally posted by thebove
well, got my copy of XP Pro the other day, and now i'm up and running again, and the same skipping problem is still there....what a load of s*it....i'm beginning to think it might be video card related...

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Are you overclocking the card?

There is no driver problem as such with nFOrce2 and Win2K cause I am running Win2K on nForce2 IGP platform and it worked perfectly with great performance first time. But then I have a so-called "crappy" mobo so maybe they didn't put the 'bug-features' in to save costs. ;)

Does that mobo have onboard video? If yes, try enabling that and see if it performs any better. Also, which nForce2 drivers are you using? Latest ones or the ones on the CD?