i have a a7n8x-x mobo with its intergrated sound. in my games and sometimes in my mp3s i get skips, and for example in UT the sound will skips and repeat a second of that song, in the suffering wen i fire the tommy gun when next to 1 or more guys i cant hear the continuous shots, i hear like a shot and then another like a revolover. but the thing is it barely does that wen u fire the gun when there is no enemy around and nothing happening. i have the latest drivers from the nvidia site for my sound card, and i got the latest chipset drivers and everything. what can be causing this skipping? temperature, software, hardware? AMD Athlon XP *barton* 3200+ Asus A7N8X-X Kingston PC3200 512 DDR ATI Radeon 9600SE 40 GIG Western Digital 7200 RPM 20 GIG Maxtor 5400 RPM X-Dreamer II

Are you sure it's your sound card? :) I'd say you need to move to a safer neighborhood. That's an awful lot of shooting going on....LOL Sounds like you are getting some resource conflicts. Prolly moving some things around in your PCI slots, or maybe buying a soundcard and installing it on one of the lower PCI slots. Just buy a cheap one to trouble shoot the problem with, and go from there. Sorry I couldn't be much more help then that. Good Luck.

i have nothing in any of my pci slots. i guess i could try putting in my old 16bit soundcard one day for testing. aluminumriot