Hi, I'm trying to fix up an older Intel Pentium lll COMPUTER for my BROTHER. It's running XP Home. I transferred a bunch of MP3's along with some home movies and some PowerPoint slide shows. Some of the MP3's, movies and most of the slide shows have the SOUND playing very fast. I've checked the speed on WMP and it's set to normal. It will play any CD at normal speed. I checked the Device Manager and EVERYTHING looks good there. The sound card is Creative PCI and I'm in the process of downloading the newest drivers. At first I thought that the files were being corrupted when I transferred them with my memory stick so I burned them all to a data disc and transferred them that way with no improvement. The strange thing is that when I play the files from the disk or the stick they also play fast but when I play them back on my PC they play at normal speed. Does anyone have any idea what's causing this? Don't know whether this will help you out, but it's worth a look

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/howto/PlayFaster_how_to.aspxThanks, Karnac but that doesn't work for me. I can slow it down but the voice is too high for Alan Jackson. I have to think there's something wrong with the sound card. I downloaded the latest version of drivers and I'll give that a try. If that doesn't work, I'll borrow another sound card and try that.Try this...
1. In Control Panel, open Sounds and Audio Devices.

2. On the Volume tab, in the Speaker settings area, click the Advanced button.

3. In the Advanced Audio Properties dialog box, click the Performance tab, and then adjust the Hardware acceleration slider control to adjust the CLOCK timing for your sound card. Thanks, Mulreay but this doesn't have any effect on the way it plays. I re-seated the sound card but no change. I'm really starting to suspect the sound card because the sound is really noisy and I don't remember it being like that when I first worked on this computer. Is it possible that the sound card is not compatible with Windows XP?Maybe pull the sound card and see if the onboard sound does the same.Yeah Karnac may be worth using the onboard sound just to test...Well, I changed the sound card and everything plays at normal speed. ThanksGood to hear mate.