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No sound after a few minutes when playing music or movie

i have a problem with sound on my pc

whenever i play music or movie files from an external usb 2 HD (connected to a PCI USB2 card) or from a HD connected to  a PCI to IDE Raid Card  the sound stops after a few minutes. the player continues to run as if there is no problem. only if i restart the pc i get the sound back . if i play a file from my internal HD that is connected to the mobo IDE i dont have any problem. i seems like the problem is with the PCI cards.

CPU: intel p4 2.0 ghz
Mobo: p4x266-8233
Chipset: via p4x266 (vt8753)

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I suggest reinstalling the sound card driver, and if that doesn't work, reinstall the player application program.
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i did that , i even installed xp again nothing helped

someone told me it may be conflicting IRQ how can i check that?
Look in device manager, under control panel.  If there is a yellow exclamation mark, there is a nonworking driver.  Otherwise, right-click and choose properties of the device, and look in the resources tab.  Alternatively, install and run Everest, and all the IRQs will be listed with what is using it: http://www.lavalys.com/products/download.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=3.  Be aware that modern OS'es share IRQs as a normal procedure; I would only be suspicious of that if the ones used by the PCI IDE card were shared.
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thanks i downloaded everest where am i supposed to se the IRQ?
Look under Devices->Device Resources
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   Ok this is what i found .Sorry some of it is in hebrew
i see that the IDE raid card is shared and so is the usb2 card on IRQ 11
the sound card is on IRQ 5 also shared though i dont see with what

i allready tried swaping pci slots(in the begining the IDE card and sound card were on IRQ 5)


IRQ 00                     Exclusive      שעון עצר של המערכת
    IRQ 01                     Exclusive      Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
    IRQ 03                     Exclusive      יציאת תקשורת‏ (COM2)
    IRQ 04                     Exclusive      יציאת תקשורת‏ (COM1)
    IRQ 05                     Shared         Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
    IRQ 06                     Exclusive      בקר תקליטונים תקני
    IRQ 08                     Exclusive      שעון זמן אמת/CMOS של המערכת
    IRQ 09                     Shared         Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
    IRQ 10                     Exclusive      MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
    IRQ 11                     Shared         Smart Link 56K Voice Modem
    IRQ 11                     Shared         Silicon Image SiI 0680 Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller
    IRQ 11                     Shared         NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller
    IRQ 11                     Shared         NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller
    IRQ 11                     Shared         Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
    IRQ 11                     Shared         VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
    IRQ 11                     Shared         VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
    IRQ 11                     Shared         NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
    IRQ 12                     Exclusive      PS/2 Compatible Mouse
    IRQ 13                     Exclusive      מעבד נתונים נומרי
    IRQ 14                     Exclusive      Primary IDE Channel
    IRQ 15                     Exclusive      Secondary IDE Channel


any ideas?


thanks
It sure looks like IRQ11 is being used by a lot of devices, but I don't know if there is a limit.  Where's the sound card?  SoundBlaster-compatable ones usually take IRQ 7, which is shared with the printer port.
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sound card

 IRQ 05                     Shared         Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
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its onboard
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ok thanks what i'll do