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AMD Athlon 64 Processor
2800+
1.80 Ghz, 512 MB of RAM
149 Gigabyte Hard drive
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Service Pack 2
RealTek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller


Hey, i have had a problem for some time with my speakers and I finaly decided to come here for some help.
Well, a month ago we had installed a new router/ inserted new wireless cards for router
AND then borrowed some new speakers from my brother. They were the exact same as my old ones but i blew the others out.
Anyways, ever since then weird things happen randomly when I play sound for a while. Whenever I play songs on Itunes, or ANY other media player, AND when i view videos, my speakers RANDOMLY will start screeching and the sound of the screech will loop LOTS of times. Not only that, but my WHOLE computer will lag, and it bugs the *censored* out of me because I do ALT+CTRL+DEL and it takes about 2 minutes for it to be active. My computer used to be very fast, it still is, however whenever the speakers scream, it gets a lot slower. Sometimes the sound will cut right out after minutes of screeching.
ALSO my sound QUALITY now has gone down drastically. My music sounds a lot more skippy, and rough. Keep in mind, I do not blast my music at all when my speakers screech. It is purely RANDOM. I also have tried unplugging my speakers and inserting my headphones into a different sound jack (as well as the same) and they screech as well after a random time period.

I have ran virus scans, and spyware scans FULLY on my computer and it is clean. I'm not quite sure what to do and I do not want to get my hard drive wiped. Can anybody save me a few bucks here?

Thanks,

Brandon
You should inspect your hardware for burnmarks and the like. Are all fans working?

See to it that you have the latest drivers installedOk, I most likely will.

I am very sure my fans work fine. If they don't or if I need something due to burnmarks, would I lose everything on my computer? And is it expensive?

I'm unexperienced with this stuff, thats why I am here lol.Well, that heavily depends on what would be damaged. But I just want you to carefully inspect the inside of your system case and see if you can find any oddities.

Have you updated all your drivers?

And have you tried to disable the onboard videocard and use an expansion card videocard to see if the problem continues to reproduce?My drivers have been all updated. I'm not quite sure how to do the last thing you said about disabling the onboard and adding an extensionRefer to your mainboard manual on how to access the BIOS and disable the onboard AC '97 soundcard and buy an expansion card in the STORES, turn of your PC, take ESD into account and install the soundcard. Turn on the PC and install OEM drivers.hmm,
i would say you are having a problem with heat.
the AMD's run hot and good cooling is a must.
what type of manin board do you have and what type of case.
also what other programs are you using when this happens?
with the heat and the load on the cpu you can have some really great crashes
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hmm,
i would say you are having a problem with heat.
the AMD's run hot and good cooling is a must.
what type of manin board do you have and what type of case.
also what other programs are you using when this happens?
with the heat and the load on the cpu you can have some really great crashes

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hmm,
i would say you are having a problem with heat.
the AMD's run hot and good cooling is a must.
what type of manin board do you have and what type of case.
also what other programs are you using when this happens?
with the heat and the load on the cpu you can have some really great crashes

This is inaccurate at best...