I have a laptop issue that stumped my computer guy at work. Last week my laptop developed an issue where it plays CDs and DVDs with a delay and a sort of "skipping" that makes them sound like they're under water. It does this on Windows Media Player as well as on Itunes. The media player can burn and rip songs off of disks even though it cannot play them properly. I tried replacing the drive, but the new drive does the same thing. Does anyone have any advice? The laptop is a couple years old and is not yet ready for replacement. Thank you in advance.

What was done to the laptop immediately preceding this problem? Life's more painless for the brainless.

Nothing that I can think of. I download songs from ITunes. No new programs or anything. I have Mcafee Virus software running and found no viruses or spyware.

If this only started last week, why not try a system restore to see if that works? You obviously downloaded new audio drivers already? I refer many downloads to the majorgeeks site because they are usually more up-dated than other sites. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

I'm going to try to download new audio drivers. Haven't tried that.

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Downloaded new audio driver and it didn't help. Can it be a Codec issue (because DVD video and CD audio are affected)?