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Thanks for the reply.  I'm no stranger to OS installs but your tips are helpful since it's been awhile since I did a clean install of XP.  You're probably right, I don't think I've had a fresh install in almost a year and a half.  After this week, since I have a to take a huge test on it (bar exam), I'll probably clean it out.  Maybe I'll get around to the hard drive upgrade while I'm at it.  

Keep these forums up, people will come!

Hi guys, first of all thanks for putting this forum up.  I was a regular at the old forums  back when everyone ordered their x1000's.

My problem is that when I'm playing mp3's, or video, I'm getting audio chunk when I do even anything in XP, sometimes when I'm not doing anything at all.

I've got a 1.4M, 512mb, running XP home SP2 with the latest SoundMAX drivers.

In fact, I just installed these drivers and it's gotten worse.  There was absolutely no problem with the sound until a couple months ago, so not exactly sure what the deal is.  Run everything I can think of, defrag/antivir/adaware and it still chunks.  

Taking a look at the Performance grid in Administrative Tools, I'm getting really bad spikes in all three measured lines (CPU/Memory/Pages per sec) when the sound does cut out.  

This should not be happening with this machine and short of a clean install anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem is?  I don't remember when I installed SP2 but it may be around the same time the problems started.  

Thanks in advance for any help.