I went through several settings in control panel and slowed down my bit setting under speaker settings in the task bar right hand corner. put it on CD quality then when it worked I raised it to DVD quality, 16 bit 48000. I changed my power settings to "performance". Then I went through my Bios settings and cut off everything I could cut off that was enabled. Like I didn't have a CD player/burner, so I just disabled it. Then I disabled all my SATA connections on the MB that didn't have a Hard Drive on it.
Restarted and it worked.
Found a good free program to measure sound latency called Latencymon.com. It tells you what might be causing the drop outs. There was a driver that was waiting too long to stop trying to work. IN my opinion my motherboard was looking for Hard drives that weren't there and took up too much time to stream sound. I use a PCIE card to run my hard drives at SATA 3 speeds. The motherboard runs at SATA 2 speeds.
Thanks to all for the help.
A “late” question: (I estimate I have 1/2 your computer knowledge. Others please chime in too.)
You said you’d added a PCIe card to run your hard drives. I’m in the process of upgrading an Acer AXC-704G-UW61 for my wife. I have an SSD to add to it, up to 16 GB RAM (max it will take), and am thinking about adding an internal USB hub.* The cpu is only a Celeron N3050, soldered in, so, that’s an ultimate limiter. However, my wife doesn’t do much cpu intensive stuff — limited temporary memory and the sluggish HD (my “good” machines all have SSD’s) is almost always the choker @ present.
However, the motherboard Acer plopped in these is actually a laptop mb and can handle only 2 drives**: Since I want to leave the HD in as the data drive, that means there’d be no controller for the DVD +/- RW drive, which my wife uses a lot.
One fellow on You Tube added an internal USB 2.0 hub, then ran a USB 2.0 to mini-SATA cable to the DVD player/writer. That adds USB ports as a bonus, but, I am wondering how well this will work (to run the DVD player/writer?)
HWinInfo reports my current SATA speed at 6GBs, so, there’s no reason to add a PCIe controller card to try to improve speed to the HD or soon to be installed SSD. But, what would be the cheapest sufficient way to run the DVD player/writer? Add a SATA 3 controller card anyway?
*There is no USB3.0 header, tho’ 2 USB 3.0 ports in the rear are soldered onto the mb. There are USB 2.0 headers that can be “intercepted”, so to speak. Additional USB ports of either type would be useful.
Possibly a card to add USB 3.0 ports would make sense, an then run one of those ports to the DVD player/writer via an adaptor cable?
**Note that there is only one expansion slot on the mb - that PCIe slot. I suppose I could search to see if somebody makes a combo PCIe internal USB 3.0 ports + SATA drive controller card, if such exist at a reasonable price. I can always punch out a knockout & run a USB 3.0 cable or two out the back of the machine.
Thoughts and suggestions?
Thanks!
You Tube commenters indicate that increasing the RAM > 8 GB on this machine won’t speed it up over what 8 GB will do, due to the CPU becoming the limiting factor. But, would increasing the RAM to the max of 16 GB on this machine decrease writes to the SSD (once also installed) compared to 8 GB?