Really screwed up and annoying audio problem

silentbob17

I put together a computer for my brother recently and it has a strange audio problem.

Whenever you have music playing (like an mp3) and launch something for the first time (like when something loads into memory for the first time since the last restart) it gets Matrix-style lag/distortion. I have a clip of it that I took with my mp3 player that you can listen to here (there's a lot near the end of the clip).

I thought it was the on-board sound that was to blame but the addition of a PCI sound card didn't solve anything.

What could be causing this?

silentbob17

Bump... please listen to the clip

silentbob17

bump

jiiteepee

All the normal actions:

- Disable the onboard sound.
- Update multimedia/audio player(s) you get these issues and A/V codecs.
- Increase the playback latency buffer (on player)
- Check if Hardware acceleration and SR conversion are set to 3/best quality (both sliders in rightmost position).
- Check if there are Conflict/IRQ shares --> if there are then disable un-needed controllers/devices (device manager).
- Increase PCI latency to 64 for sound device and decrease graphics (AGP) latency to 128 (for PCI Latency Tool, use google).

Update your motherboard BIOS, controller/device drivers, OS and Dx.

Check if there are un-wanted/needed processes running (stop those you do not need).

jiitee

silentbob17

Alright, I'll try a few of those that I haven't already... did you listen to the clip I provided? What does it sound like is happening?