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• 126 - Mark

  Mar 10, 2011 at 5:52 pm

  Verniel, I'm not sure how to enable that if it's grayed out. Might be something worth Googling.
  
  That aside, did you try the rest of the information in the article? It may still help resolve your problem without changing out of PIO.

• 127 - goldie

  Mar 27, 2011 at 3:46 pm

  Thank you so very very much!now i can play videos n audios on my pc with no hassle at all! i m using xp sp3 & solution#2( deleting those master/slaveiddatachecksum keys) actually did the trick for me! and i hv noticed that my computer is running way faster now!.... Greetings from India!

• 128 - l33m3r

  Apr 02, 2011 at 1:51 pm

  Thank you....this is what i needed...

• 129 - CharlesQ

  Apr 12, 2011 at 5:10 pm

  The registry fix solved my problem - without a reboot! and I was still in regedit! I knew it when I went to delete another key (the key for the secondary port) and when pormpted to confirm the sound was crystal clear!
  I then opened iTunes while still in regedit - risky business - and played one of the tunes that i had tested with. It played back perfectly!
  
  Thanks so much - this was driving me nuts!

• 130 - Benjamin Allen

  Apr 19, 2011 at 7:58 pm

  This worked quite well on the Windows system I have to use right now. Thank you.

• 131 - dc

  May 06, 2011 at 4:09 am

  Thank you so much, brilliant advice. My computer had dodgy and jumpy sound, was very very slow, couldn't cope with doing more than one thing at a time after following your instructors it now seems to be running perfectly. Sound sorted and running quick and smooth. Thanks again.

• 132 - Carl

  May 06, 2011 at 11:29 pm

  Registry fix worked for me!! Thank you!!

• 133 - Siddharth

  May 08, 2011 at 6:45 am

  Your registry method worked for me. Thanks a lot.

• 134 - Soul

  Jun 22, 2011 at 7:00 am

  I tried everything suggested above and in other comments on the laptop I'd been given (after a fresh install of Windows XP Home, updated to SP3) - but my video was still jerky.
  
  One rainy day I sat down and had a play, and after a LOT of diagnosis and testing, it seems the driver for the graphics processor is not DirectX compatable ... so by dissabling DirectDraw and Direct3D (via START - RUN - "dxdiag") my system now runs fine and plays high definition video's without a hitch :)

• 135 - Daryl

  Jun 29, 2011 at 4:00 pm

  Unbelievable, Thank you so much. Have been plagued by this on my old comp. and just recently on another one. Cheers again.

• 136 - Star

  Jul 27, 2011 at 10:02 am

  omg!! I love you, you are my hero!! I was ready to take a hammer to my laptop or flush it, the registry edit fixed the sound on my machine, ty ty ty ty ty ty!!

• 137 - Derrick

  Jul 27, 2011 at 8:46 pm

  Thank you so much! I thought my computer was done for. That's how bad it got for me. After trying your second option it worked like a charm. I just want to say thank you!! thank you!! thank you!!

• 138 - Derrick

  Jul 28, 2011 at 10:07 am

  I take my thank you's back. The problem returned the very next day. Boo

• 139 - Greenplastic

  Aug 01, 2011 at 5:16 pm

  Man, I love you, you saved me!!! Last time i followed your suggestion, i had also done other changes, so i didn't know exactly which of them was the right one. Now it happened again, and i remembered this page, and i was lucky to find it between my facebook links (i hadn't saved it on favourites, don't know why, but now i have, and i also copied the text on a file). My IDE was set to use DMA when available, but it was using PIO. I deleted the keys in the registry, and it's as new!!!! I checked the device manager and the pc is now using ultra dma5
  Now i can do some work on a dvd, i promised my wife i would do it if i managed to sort it out.
  God bless you!!!

• 140 - ormaynot

  Aug 08, 2011 at 1:44 am

  i have a dinasaur- dell latitude c400, the sound has been scratchy and choppy like forever, video playbak is a joke. i tried your second option and i'm listening to my faves as i post this. thanx for the advice- so far so good! you are amazing! i'm gonna check and see if video is doin better now, too. you rock dude!

• 141 - kevin

  Aug 21, 2011 at 8:16 pm

  thanks.
  it fixed mine too!

• 142 - bobby

  Aug 22, 2011 at 9:23 pm

  thank you very much was ready to buy a new one and throw this in the pool

• 143 - Sergio

  Aug 25, 2011 at 4:32 pm

  Dude you rock! I was on Ebay just about to buy a new HD. This worked perfectly. Great job. Can't believe it took you minutes to figure this out. I was on day 6. lol. Thanks again.

• 144 - Kenneth Steven

  Sep 01, 2011 at 5:04 pm

  Excuse me sir,
  
  You are a gent..
  
  You've solved my issue, and saved my family paying for a new PC because we thought this one was goosed (for months). This was the exact problem we had, and the exact solution needed.
  
  Thank you so much.
  
  Kenny

• 145 - Martin

  Sep 05, 2011 at 7:59 am

  Mark, you're the man! I've had this problem for a long time now. Tried a lot of other tips, most about changing player and downloading a sea of different codecs. This fixed it instantly. Thank you so much.

• 146 - Vitaal

  Sep 19, 2011 at 11:48 pm

  You are UNBELIEVABLE MAN ....It saved my pc

• 147 - Phil G

  Oct 03, 2011 at 11:05 am

  I cannot change PIO to DMA?? Any alternate?thanx PG

• 148 - Melissa

  Oct 09, 2011 at 2:37 pm

  DUDE YOU ARE ROCK, YOU RULE, I LOVE YOU, OMG I ACTUALLY CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH

• 149 - auchengyu

  Oct 14, 2011 at 12:42 am

  Mark thank you!. you are a real life saver. I have searched for this problem for hours now. since my GMER full root scan, i had that choppy sound, very annoying. the registry deletes fixed my problem. Thank you again!

• 150 - Ryan

  Oct 14, 2011 at 6:42 am

  hello, my laptop says it is running DMA ultra 6, but everything even dvds are really jumpy, i am on vista 32 bit , any suggestions? please

• 151 - bill

  Oct 28, 2011 at 8:17 am

  followed your excellent instructions - worked immediately after reboot
  thank you so much for sharing the solution
  

• 152 - PAT

  Oct 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm

  I did this and now it says my sound drivers cant be located i really screwed up

• 153 - Patrck "Platinum PAT" Warren

  Oct 28, 2011 at 3:43 pm

  YES IT WORKED
  Sound is excellent now no skips or glitches the problem happened last night after i left a recording session open and went to sleep. When i woke up that morning the sounds was horribly distorted your a life saver thanks a lot man.
  Im running windows xp i deleted every thing you deleted i cant lie i was very hesitant to do so but i was even more eager to get my sound working so this worked for me and im not the most computer savy person around so thank again...

• 154 - Steve

  Nov 07, 2011 at 12:39 am

  Hey i just wanted to thank you for the fix really greate job you did.

• 155 - Mukund

  Nov 07, 2011 at 2:20 am

  I have exactly the same issue. I tried deleting the MasterIdDataCheckSum, but when i restart the systme. I can see this again..

• 156 - Jack

  Dec 14, 2011 at 9:58 pm

  Hey Mark...
  
  Thanks for posting this fix. I just knew it would fix my problem, but it hasn't yet. The machine I am having problems with is a 2003ish Dell Dimension XPS, Pentium 4 CPU 2.8ghz, 2.5 GB RAM, XP Pro SP 3, ATI Radeon HD 3450, 512mb. I use this computer for video editing with an older sftware called Avid Liquid 7.2. I experienced a couple hardware errors while capturing video from a camera with a firewire cable into an external HDD case in which housed a standard WD 250 GB IDE drive. One day after a failed capture and hardware error, several of the videos I played back from that drive (that played fine the day before) were jumpy - both audio and video. I replaced the video card, which eliminated some artifact problems I was having anyway. Then I installed a brand new WD 500gb IDE drive, thinking the drive had gone bad. When I captured new video to it, it too was jumpy. The hardware failure error notices made me think your fix would work.
  
  The video files I have stored on my C drive still play back perfectly. I then scrapped the whole external firewire drive and attached the new (actually tried both) drive to the IDE cable as a slave inside the computer. Same thing, the main C drive plays back fine, but the secondary drive is jumpy.
  
  I tried updating sound card drivers too.
  
  I tried the steps in your article, including deleting all the stuff in the registry to no avail. I realize you may not even be monitoring this thread any more, but any additional sugeestions would be greatly appreciated.
  
  THANKS!
  
  Jack

• 157 - slangpdx

  Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 am

  This fixed my Windows XP audio problem after I shut it off without doing a proper shutdown. Thanks !!! I did a screen shot of the registry before I deleted anything just in case.

• 158 - Tom

  Jan 04, 2012 at 5:06 am

  Like others on here, I CANNOT believe this fix was so simple! I swapped in a new drive and messed around with the partitions because I have Linux and Windows on my system. The choppy video (online or local) was driving me nuts. This incredibly simple fix gave me my sanity back. THANK YOU!!!!!!!

• 159 - A

  Jan 08, 2012 at 7:17 am

  Thanks mate - videos weren't playing before, no matter what I did, now they are... I just hope I haven't wrecked or damaged anything on my PC by deleting those keys!!

• 160 - Henry Adams

  Jan 10, 2012 at 2:46 am

  Hello
  
  I am having trouble carrying out all the steps in your description of the fix. i get to "Expand this key/folder and you'll notice a number of subkeys, numbered 0000, 0001, 0002, and so on. There may only be a couple, though there could be several. Click on each one and look for the item "DriverDesc" in the right pane, and to the right of that, find the ones that say "Primary IDE Channel" and "Secondary IDE Channel.""
  
  I find the one named "DriverDesc" but nothing to the right that says primary or Secondary IDE Channel, but I'm pretty sure im in the right place.
  
  I was also couldn't find the MasterIdDataCheckSum and/or SlaveIdDataCheckSum.
  
  Have you got any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?
  
  Cheers
  
  

• 161 - Kevin

  Jan 29, 2012 at 6:19 pm

  Thank you so much!!!! Not only have I not been able to watch a video or listen to audio for years, but my computer was extremely sluggish and constantly freezing up. This fixed everything!! A restart would usually take 15 minutes! It now takes 30 seconds!! Unbelievable. You're a godsend!

• 162 - Leah

  Feb 02, 2012 at 5:09 pm

  This is amazing, thank you so much!

• 163 - Curben

  Mar 10, 2012 at 6:27 pm

  seems to have worked so far, awesomeness

• 164 - Jonno

  Mar 13, 2012 at 9:25 pm

  Thanks For the fix, Not only does my Audio And video work again, My PC Loads twice a quick cheers again.

• 165 - Matt

  Mar 14, 2012 at 5:42 pm

  Dude, you ROCK! After five days of trying to fix this extremely annoying problem, I was ready to throw my laptop out the window when I happened upon this page through a Google search. I followed your registry key deletion instructions and now my laptop is running perfectly! Audio and video are back to normal, and Windows is running as fast as ever. A million thanks for taking the time to do this write-up, I greatly appreciate it. You helped me solve a problem I never would've figured out on my own, and it was so easy to do. You are awesome!

• 166 - Shawn

  Mar 18, 2012 at 12:06 am

  I tried this fix and unfortunately it didn't work. :( Thanks for the article though! It was very informative and different from normal ones.

• 167 - Shawn

  Mar 18, 2012 at 12:19 am

  Actually upon further review the system simply regenerates the checksums upon system restart. I wonder how to fix that...

• 168 - DIane Bartosch

  Apr 06, 2012 at 5:16 pm

  Thanks! The regedit fixed my problem!! :) I am a happy camper now!

• 169 - Mark Buckingham

  Apr 27, 2012 at 1:35 pm

  Three years on and people are still benefiting from this. So glad it's been able to help so many!
  
  If you tried it and are still having trouble, I'm not sure what else to recommend besides updated drivers or checking to see if it's a genuine hardware problem. Otherwise, do what I did -- keep searching and hopefully you'll find another solution out on the web.

• 170 - Ginger Williams

  May 02, 2012 at 8:41 am

  Thank you! Been dealing with this for awhile now, but your fix worked perfectly!

• 171 - Bo

  May 15, 2012 at 4:21 pm

  hey, thanks. really.

• 172 - Bonnie

  May 16, 2012 at 2:01 pm

  too complicated for me. If I upload my videos to you tube will they upload choppy or ok? They seem to be recorded just fine its only in playback that various parts are choppy.

• 173 - Bill

  May 18, 2012 at 12:12 pm

  Good fix. I was having trouble with braking audio on 2 different cd drives. Worked ok from hardrive. Deleting checksum fixed. thanks.

• 174 - Macson

  May 24, 2012 at 10:36 am

  Thank you! You're a lifesaver!

• 175 - Zuly

  Jun 06, 2012 at 4:49 pm

  Uuumm when i type in REGEDIT . it says its not found :?

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