It not the sound card problem.  Very likely to be the driver, or
memory-shortage problem.  Tried remove the sound card device driver, and a
re-install the driver.  Make sure your driver is the right-one and setup
correctly.  If this can't cure, and you do not have much invested on your
system, you can try reinstall window.

Ling SM

> Jai,
>      Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try another slot. The second card
> I tried works well in another computer, but didn't work well either in
> mine. I'll give report. Regards. Vic

> > > 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.

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