this drives me crazy!!!

[mattheadfat]

i have a celery 300 w/128 mb of ram and win 98, and when i listen to winamp, it skips like crazy, on my last computer (cyrix 166 w/64 mb of ram) i never had this problem. I don't have much running either, maybe icq, norton antivirus, and ie 5. I'll just be surfing, doing nother out of the ordinary and winamp will skip, I don't get it. Is there something that's hogging up resources that i don't know of? Cause i disabled as much as i knew i could, please help me,
matt

[Warthog]

I never thought I'd meet a person who had the same problem!! It started with me when I upgraded from 64mb RAM to 192 (bought a 128 chip). All of the sudden my music is skipping like crazy anytime I do something. After many, many hours and days on the phone along with a dozen different techies, a high ranking techie finally told me that it was something to do with the Celeron chip. It sometimes has trouble supporting more than a 64 RAM chip (doesn't like 128 I guess). They are probably (still talking with them) going to send me a another 64 inexchange for the 128 and refund me the difference. What a joke! Next time I buy a computer, I'll just not get the kind of processor that Wal-mart and Staples have in their comps to avoid any crappy chips.

Sorry, I don't know if there a fix for this stupid processor...Maybe I should've gotten an AMD...

Warthog

[Eli]

You could try an older version of Winamp and see if that helps. I've heard that the newer versions are more prone to "skip" than the older versions. I use v2.09 without any problems.

[mattheadfat]

i think i have 2 64 sticks, not 1 128, does that problem still apply to me? i still want a new processor! i have ver 2.5e, where could i get an old version?

[This message has been edited by mattheadfat (edited 12-23-1999).]