Thread: Choppy sound, pausing sound, slow hibernate.

Causes of the choppiness could be a lack of resources like processing power or RAM. Or it could just be a bad chipset driver, try downloading all the newest drivers for your motherboard if you're using onboard sound.
Causes of the crackling could be a bad driver or just the on board sound picking up the movement of the head on the hard drive. I get this all the time but can't hear it over the music. It's actually why I purchased a sound card for my home desktop, I was getting the feedback from Audacious (Linux Winamp).

Or it could all be caused by Windows Service Pack 3, there's a method for removing it on the internet, you don't need it in your car. In fact I think all service packs are pointless if the computer's not hooked up to the internet. The method involves a very long string entry but I know it works.

Thanks alot. I was going to try going back to service pack 2. Hope that works.

PROBLEM FOUND

windows was putting my hard drive in pio mode instead of dma mode.

so im going to remount the harddrive and switch out sata cables but this is the same way ive had 2 other harddrive mounted so it might be the harddrive itself.

WD green 1tb sata. might want to stay away from that if you can.