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re: Skipping sounds
Monday, December 3, 2007 at 5:49 pm
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Posted by Deb (1462 messages posted)


Is it possible that you need to use a sound driver for xp? 






On Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 7:43 pm, mewtwo064 wrote:
>I recently bought a new laptop that had Windows Vista on it, I successfully downgraded
>it back to XP because I didn't want vista. However, since I've downgraded I've been
>noticing my music (seems to only happen when listening to music, doesn't effect other
>sounds such as system sounds, sounds from the 'net, games, etc.) will play normally
>for a bit, then every so often it makes a weird sound, almost sounds like if you
>were listening to an audio tape and it hit a bad spot in the tape, a scrambling sound.
>It will do this more than once in a song. I've tried other songs too same result.
>It's really annoying and I haven't had better results trying a different media player
>either, tried both windows media player and winamp. Out of the two I would think
>Winamp would be less stressful on the system resources... not that a dual core CPU
>couldn't handle it.
>
>I don't seem to have this problem on Vista unfortunately =( I really don't wanna
>switch back to Vista just so I can listen to my music if I can help it.
>
>Here are my system specs if anyone needs them:
>
>Athlon 64 X-2 @ 1.8 Ghz (TK-55)
>1 Gig of RAM (PC2 5300)
>GeForce 7150M Mobile
>Conexant HD Sound card
>
>Thanks for any help in advance. If you need more on the system specs other than what
>i've provided, I'll be happy to post.



Written in response to:
Skipping sounds (mewtwo064: Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 7:43 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Skipping sounds (mewtwo064: Monday, December 3, 2007 at 7:44 pm)
*re: Skipping sounds (Eric: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 3:22 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Skipping sounds (mewtwo064: Sun, Dec 2, 2007, 7:43 pm)
-re: Skipping sounds (Deb: Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 5:49 pm)
*re: Skipping sounds (mewtwo064: Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 7:44 pm)
*re: Skipping sounds (Eric: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 3:22 pm)
-re: Skipping sounds (Super Dave: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 10:28 pm)
*re: Skipping sounds (mewtwo064: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 11:24 pm)
*re: Skipping sounds (mewtwo064: Wed, Dec 5, 2007, 11:47 pm)
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