Tried a couple Google searches but haven't found much wondering if anyone here might have an idea. Running Windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4550, 256mb Ram, 2.6 Intel processor. I have a 120gb Seagate pirmary HDD and a 120gb Seagate slave drive. The slave drive has (2) 30gb partitions and a 60gb partition. The problem is if I download video onto one of the partitions ( F: G: or H it has poor playback, video hangs with choppy audio. I've defragmented the partitions, the problem isn't the video however like I thought. If I move the video to my C: drive playback is fine. I mainly use BSPlayer for playback, with DIVX as a backup and Media Player 9 as a last resort. I have DIVX Anti-Freeze along with only the necessary codecs from the NIMO Codec pack. Drivers are all up to date as well as the XP patches etc...

 

Video can be rough, even on a HDD. Maybe your particular video clip is not compressed enough or the HDD's transfer rate is weak? They make special AV-drives that don't do thermal calibrations in mid-transfer like standard drives can. I've run a RAID-0 array that measured near 15K effective RPM and still had playback problems with lightly compressed video.

 

must be your computer has a crappy vid card and on board crap sound

 

what else is plugged into the IDE controllers?

CDROM? DVD?

Might want to put your other HD on the 2nd IDE controller, if its not. If both drives are on the 1st IDE controller, that might be an issue, or sometimes other peripherals that are plugged into the same IDE controller cause problems. Try moving stuff around, or unplugging the cdrom/dvd drives, and see what happens.