Hello friends, I am looking for some pointers. My sound card is not playing songs very well ( both from CD's and from the hard drive ). What it does is that as it plays a song, it kind of gets stuck for a second it spins on a spot and sounds like a small machine-gun. This operation happens like every 5 seconds. I thought it was the sound card, but I tried another one and is the same deal. It is VERY bothersome.This didn't used to happen. Can you kind people give me pointers as to what may be going on? I eliminated potential programs running in the bakcground, but to no avail. Thanks in advance. Vic Lopez. ********************************* Get your free E-Mail and Homepage Go to http://www.networld.com ********************************* -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics