Hello,
As of late my iMac has been having some trouble with audio playback. The general problem is that if a song is playing, it will stall for a few seconds, and then start from where it left off. Sometimes this is happening once a song for a brief moment, sometimes its so often and so long that listening to music is impossible.
Here's what I can tell you about my computer and what I've done to narrow the problem down...
iMac 5.1 Intel Core Duo 20" or 21" screen can't remember
2.16 GHz processor
Memory 4GB (installed but I know that it can only use 3GB)
Bus Speed 667.
Mac OS 10.6.5
The problem happens whether I am using an external sound card or the internal speakers. It happens when I'm using iTunes, Quick Time, Ableton Live, etc.
I can't pinpoint it to any one thing - if I just have songs on iTunes and don't use the computer for anything else, it more or less is ok, but when I've got anything else going on like Firefix or Word or whatever, it's seriously mashed up.
I did the diagnostics test on the CD, no idea what use that is, but it said everything was ok.
I'm wondering if the computer is just generally not up to snuff or if there's something specific I can do to sort this out. It's only recently happened out of the blue, I can't remember making any updates before it started happening (although I did just update to the new OS today.)
Thanks.
As of late my iMac has been having some trouble with audio playback. The general problem is that if a song is playing, it will stall for a few seconds, and then start from where it left off. Sometimes this is happening once a song for a brief moment, sometimes its so often and so long that listening to music is impossible.
Here's what I can tell you about my computer and what I've done to narrow the problem down...
iMac 5.1 Intel Core Duo 20" or 21" screen can't remember
2.16 GHz processor
Memory 4GB (installed but I know that it can only use 3GB)
Bus Speed 667.
Mac OS 10.6.5
The problem happens whether I am using an external sound card or the internal speakers. It happens when I'm using iTunes, Quick Time, Ableton Live, etc.
I can't pinpoint it to any one thing - if I just have songs on iTunes and don't use the computer for anything else, it more or less is ok, but when I've got anything else going on like Firefix or Word or whatever, it's seriously mashed up.
I did the diagnostics test on the CD, no idea what use that is, but it said everything was ok.
I'm wondering if the computer is just generally not up to snuff or if there's something specific I can do to sort this out. It's only recently happened out of the blue, I can't remember making any updates before it started happening (although I did just update to the new OS today.)
Thanks.