Hey guys, I just started experiencing this problem last night and I've tried to fix it, and at some times it seems like the problem is gone but then I'll do something else and it'll come back.

Anyways basically I was listening to my itunes last night, and all of a sudden the songs started to cut out...like the sound would go dead for a few seconds, and then come back...so I switched songs, thinking maybe it was just a problem with the mp3 file. But it did that with all the other songs I tried playing too, so I was like okay well something is definitely wrong here. So I closed my itunes and reopened it and tried playing music again, but this time the sound was totally :filtered:ed up...its like it was lagging really really badly...I can't think of how to describe it...like it would take 10 seconds to play 2 seconds of the song, and it was really spread out and sounded all choppy and stuff, I'm not sure. So I figured maybe it was an audio driver...so I downloaded the latest windows xp realtek audio driver and installed it, and rebooted my pc, and it seemed like it had fixed it because I tried playing another song, and for the first 15 seconds it was fine, but then it started doing this really laggy thing again.

Anyways right now I'm just kinda :filter: that my sound is being all funky, and I'd really like to see if I could fix this somehow...do you think this could be due to some virus/spyware issue at all? Also, I'll tell you this, I dunno if it makes any difference or not but basically I leave my computer on all the time downloading things like movies and tv shows using uTorrent, and usually its fine and fast and whatnot, but ever since this whole audio problem happened its been acting really laggy as well, like when I start it where it would usually take a few seconds to check the overall progress of the download it takes upwards of 15 minutes...no idea if that has anything to do with anything but I figured I'd throw it out there just in case because I noticed that as well.

I'd really appreciate it if someone could try and help me fix this sound problem though, thanks!!

Hi there and welcome to PCHF, have you tried re installing your sound card drivers?

Yeah haha I already said that I did that in there somewhere.

Sorry its me, being rather stupid at the mo. , ill notify one of the techs for you.

If I backed up all my files to my external hard drive(s) and formatted my laptop's hard drive and reinstalled Windows, would this fix this problem do you think?

Reformatting might do the trick, but then you'd have to resinstall all the windows drivers and any apps you may have had. If you use ANY torrent site, chances are, you picked something up along the way. If you could do the following, we'll go from there.

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thanks,

v