PC outputting garbled sound

GoneShootin

Lew

Whenever I try to play DVD's + mp3's etc I get very poor performance. The sound is choppy and the system gets pretty slow. I've also noticed it slower to boot up. I even get garbled sound from the login chime (after putting in username/password etc)

PC here is 3.0Ghz 1Gig RAM Win XP Home. Best I can see there are no viruses on this system. Bar reformatting the HD I'm not sure where to start looking!

Karoma

Do you get the same distortion when using headphones?

Re-install the audio card driver.
Also, check through/disable startup items in MSCONFIG

made any changes to the soft/hard-ware config recently?

Failing that: XP System Restore,if it's only recent

GoneShootin

Karoma wrote:

Do you get the same distortion when using headphones?

Re-install the audio card driver.
Also, check through/disable startup items in MSCONFIG

made any changes to the soft/hard-ware config recently?

Failing that: XP System Restore,if it's only recent

Yes

Will do,
All set to default

nope

Turned off system restore (normally do, to help against viruses etc).

Looks like twill have to be a reformat - thank god the drive is properly partitioned...

butts

Is it a Dell with Nvidia 6800 video card. If so lots of other people with the same problem (check Dell forums to see posts on the subject).

GoneShootin

No butts it isnt. But thanks