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Originally Posted by GFDuke
Try taking out the sound card rebooting and then removing all the Creative drivers. Rebbot and install the motherboard sound drivers. If it dosn't happen then at least you've narrowed it down to the card or its drivers.
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Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Neuromancer
Did you sweep the drivers?
Also...
Uninstall Flash and see if the issue occurs, this is a known issue with flash and creative products. I am guessing it has to do with HW acceleration. You mentioned youtube.. since EVERYTHING uses flash anymore it might be hard to trouble shoot, "it happens in game" if you were just on a youtube page....
However you must remove CPU and mem issues causing the problem too, traditionally sound ka-ka-ka ing is a memory issue.
I agree with witchy in removing the card completely to remove its from the equation (makes trouble shooting easier if you are positive it has something to do with one specific device or its drivers) 
I steer away from creative products they have a history of creating crap and saying F-U to the people that support them (purchasers). Gimmie a realtek nic with xfi software license, I am happy |
Rich thanks a ton. I will try uninstalling flash. I'll also revert my memory to bios defaults too. The sound stutters while listening to music on WMP, youtube vids, pandora radio (browser), playing games (happens really often on BF3). I can make the problem happen if I start opening tabs in firefox and when I load random web pages. To answer your question, no I did not use driver sweeper, but the problem started with the first set of drivers this machine had installed albeit several months later. So basically I'm gonna do these things in this order:
- Set memory to BIOS defaults (CPU is at stock)
- Uninstall Flash Player
- Take out card, uninstall drivers, driver sweep, install realtek onboard, test
- Re-install card with fresh drivers
- Smash card with hammer and order a Xonar.
FYI, I only have this card because I snagged it cheap from Circuit City locally during the liquidation. I new back then I should have just got the damn Xonar.
