This is definitely an interrupt problem. Something has changed in your
OS configuration (or bios) since it worked properly.

Adding another card, i.e. a scanner, network card, modem, etc., or
playing with the bios settings has caused the problem. Depending upon
your OS, you could look at the device settings and map your IRQ's and
find which card is camping on the sound card IRQ and possibly change it.

Or, worst case, you may have to reload the OS.
Rick

>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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