[Scgeeks] Re: RESOLVED Re: RAM voltages

[Twayne]

> "Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> Well, I got what I got, I'm not opening up this PC to fool with
> anything. It's a custom case HP Touchsmart, an "all in one" PC, only
> things not physically hard connected are the keyboard and mouse. I'll
> just deal with the CPU max-out stuttering, I guess. It's only
> happening lately because I'm trying to rip audio from a DVD, which is
> turning out to take at least 4 steps before I can turn it into single
> song files. Have to do it by hand in the end, cutting the single
> monster MP3 file by listening for breaks in the concert audio. At
> least I managed to rip the video to a .wmv file(s) so I can re-record
> it to a DVD for my sister, she loves Pink Floyd/David Gilmore.
> Everything I'm using is freeware, the key missing item was an app
> called "DVD43", which decodes the copy-protected DVD. Using that with
> AVS Video Converter 6.2 allows me to rip the video, which I then
> ripped to MP3 so I can listen to it on my MP3 player or burn it to an
> audio DVD disk to play in my car stereo. AVS puts a watermark on the
> video file, but it's pretty unobtrusive so far, it looks like it only
> shows up at the first and lasat 30 seconds of the video (I haven't
> watched most of the WMV file yet to see if it shows up elsewhere).
>
>>   Have you tried using the Mixer to turn off all the inputs and
>> outputs one at a time and as a group?  Probably, I seem to recall
>> this is a long time project you've been at.
>
> To be honest, I don't even know where "the Mixer" is located ;-) And
> yes, I've been working on this audio problem for a while, about a
> month.

Hey, I just had an experience that might help, dunno!  REcall I 
mentioned I had speaker static pops?
Just for grins, I went into the System Sounds to adjust some of my lost 
messages - I have several voice messages so I know what the hell the 
beep boop bongs actually mean!  Anyway, while I was there I decided to 
test the audio system.  Turned out I was set up for a two speaker 
system, no center woofer box.  But I actually have a Surround Sound.  I 
was blaming the static and pops, but ... the cenral woofer was hardly 
doing anything!
   So I went and reset the system for Surround sound and made sure the 
right sound card was selected, and guess what?  The static stopped!  As 
soon as I clicked OK!  Couldn't hurt to have a look at it on your 
machine!
   I have NO idea why it worked, or where the noise, static and pops was 
coming from, but I don't care; it's finally gone!  It's going to seem 
awfully quiet in here now!

As for mixers, I suspect you have at least two software mixers.
  The first one, just double click the speaker icon in the System Tray. 
You must know what it is, just not the name; you can set what's on, 
what's off, and both record and playback volumes for the system in that 
mixer.  If you dont' have a speaker icon in the System Tray, you should; 
they do get "lost" once in awhile and need to be turned back on 
sometimes.
   Then, in your sound card applications you should have another one.  I 
have an SB card and an SB on board system plus modem audio, and each of 
those have a mixer associated with them.  For the SB in my case, it's in 
the EAX Panel under my sound card in Control Panel.  Check around; it 
must be there.  Try the Help and look in the Index for Mixer.
   Probably won't help, but thought I'd mention it just in case...

BTW, speaking of freeware: I think the best audio app I have is Audacity 
(audacity.com).  I especially like the "what u hear" feature - no 
fussing with selecting the sources.  Of course, if a system message 
happens to play while you're recording, you'll record that too, but ... 
<g>.  Very nice app if you're not familiar with it.  I'm into open 
source apps in a big way too.  SourceForge.com is an excellent starting 
place for things like that.

OK, I'm off to get some sleep; past my bedtime!

Cheers,

Twayne