[Scgeeks] Re: Audio problem

[AndrewB]

I doubt you have a corrupt ntoskrnl.exe issue.  If you did, you wouldn't 
be able to boot into Windows at all.  ntoskrnl.exe is the core of 
Windows - it's the kernel of the operating system.

My guess after reading the tinyurl you posted is that most of the people 
had some sort of disk corruption, especially on their older pcs, or some 
virus sneaked through and tried to attach to the kernel, but failed due 
to a bug or issue (there are probably dozens of real versions of 
ntoskrnl.exe, one with every build of Windows and service pack).

Although you have AVG 8, have you tried any spyware scanners like 
ad-aware or such?  That might explain the disk activity of ntoskrnl.exe, 
if your machine is a spambot or something like that.  But also, 
streaming media may result in disk activity too.

Do you have a 32 bit or 64 bit version of Vista?

You listed that error message from the event log, but it doesn't 
indicate what the problem was.  Just the timestamp of the incident.

Do you have another pc at your location you can use to stream to see if 
it's your ISP throttling you?  Or maybe borrow one?


AndrewB


Indigo wrote:
> Recently my PC audio has been acting wonky, and not in a consistent way, 
> of course :-(
> 
> I listen to live audio during the day, one uses XM Radio's application 
> "x-mplayer2" which utilizes Windows Media Player (it's not really a 
> streaming app, you can't record it using any streaming audio capture 
> tools), while the other one uses Adobe's Flash Player "player.play.it". 
> If you go to http://www.wjfk.com/pages/703221.php and click on "Listen 
> Live" you can see what I mean -- that's real streaming audio and I can 
> record it.
> 
> Lately, like the last month or so, the sound has been suffering from 
> sporadic disruptions of various types. Sometimes the audio just goes 
> silent (I suspect due to a temporary interruption of the stream), 
> sometimes the voices "stutter", and sometimes there's just plain weird 
> noises emenating from the speakers. I notice that when the CPUs are 
> under a high load (Vista HP with dual core Turion processors) the 
> problem is aggravated, but it also occurs when not much is going on.
> 
> I've spend most of the day examining services, apps, googling various 
> audio service definitions, and reading the event files. I have a 
> Microsoft USB KB plugged into a hub, and I noticed that the event list 
> showed many, many warnings that appear to be associated with my KB. I 
> also found this critical warning:
> 
> This process is doing excessive disk activities and is impacting the 
> performance of Windows:
>     File Name  : ntoskrnl.exe
>     Friendly Name  :
>     Version  :
>     Thread time  : 6728ms
>     Blocked Time  : 4947ms
>     Incident Time (UTC) : 8/5/2008 3:28:45 PM
> 
> While gargling that issue, I across this:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/6yzn8e
> 
> where a guy seems to have had problems with a corrupt ntoskml.exe file 
> and linked it to a keyboard issue. Now how to tie this problem to my 
> audio problem, well I'm at a loss there. My soundcard is:
> 
> Name: SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
> Manufacturer Analog Devices
> Status OK
> PNP Device ID 
> HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_103C2A40&REV_1003\4&93A838&0&0001
> Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\adihdaud.sys (6.10.1.5510, 340.00 KB 
> (348,160 bytes), 10/4/2007 5:14 PM)
> 
> This is the error message that I found in the event log, the are 
> multiple messages all tied to this event with slightly different info.
> 
>     Driver Friendly Name  : USB Miniport Driver for Input Devices
>     Driver Version   : 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)
>     Driver Total Time  : 377ms
>     Driver Degradation Time : 361ms
>     Incident Time (UTC)  : 8/5/2008 6:50:58 PM
>     Device Name   : HID\VID_045E&PID_00B0&MI_00\8&1376409d&0&0000
>     Device Friendly Name  : Microsoft USB Digital Media Pro Keyboard 
> (IntelliType Pro)
>     Device Total Time  : 377ms
>     Device Degradation Time : 361ms
> 
> To top it off, I found a lot of warning messages about problems 
> awakening from "sleep" mode (I almost always bang a key on the KB to 
> wake it up), a lot of the warnings were about "ACPI Driver for NT", some 
> of the other things causing the delay in wake up were "RAS SSTP Miniport 
> Call Manager", "OHCI USB Miniport Driver", while the driver "HidUsb", 
> name "USB Miniport Driver for Input Devices", showed up the most 
> frequently.
> 
> So do I have two problems here, where the keyboard delays the machine 
> from waking up, plus the audio problems of unknown cause, or is it all 
> linked to the keyboard? The thing is only 6 months old (machine and KB), 
> up to date AVG 8, scanned nightly.
> 
> I know I posted a lot of info, but any suggestions/clues would be 
> appreciated!