How come when I try to play any music on my computer it skips?

Question

It's not my cd's, I checked those already. When I try to play any music or sound for that matter (off my media player, myspace, etc.) it skips out, slows down, and basically fizzles. It didn't do it when I first bought the computer, but about a month later it started doing this.

I'm using a pretty new Gateway laptop. Don't as me about my RAM or anything, as I know nothing about it. I'm also running SpySweeper and Norton Anti-Virus.


Any help would be awesome, thanks.

I've gotten to the point where I

What I was trying to say is that, I've gotten to the point where I just mute my computer.

Answer 1

Try this it worked for me. Plus its fast.
1. Click the start menu
2. Click Run
3. Type in msconfig and press "OK"
4. Click on Services top right, next to start up.
5. Click on "Hide all Microsoft Services" (Programs needed to run windows)
6. Click on "Disable all"
7. Now click on Startup (top right)
8. Disable All(Disabling all Stupid programs not needed to run windows.
9. Click Apply then close.
10. It will ask you to restart for changes to take effect. "RESTART" You will notice the difference as it boots. If no Difference. More than likely Hardware issues.

Answer 2

what ford on fire said was good... if that doesn't help it any, it doesn't hurt to do a defrag, and there are instructions on how to do it in the XP program. But what may be happening is that you may need to check how much RAM you have, how much Randam Access Memory, you have. the computer may be using too much memory to try to use the play function. so check and see how much RAM you have and go from there. since you just got the computer, call the tech assistance line to get some more information, it won't hurt

Answer 3

Several things can cause this: 1) Your system resources could be to low, try shutting all programs down except media player and trying again. 2) Your hard drive could be badly fragmented, run your defrag program and see if that helps. 3)You may have updated your sound drivers, see if you can roll back the driver on your sound card. 4) Your sound card could be failing, if its under warranty call Gateway and let them talk you through troubleshooting it. Hope this helps, and good luck...

Answer 4

It could be that you have too many applications running simultaneously and your computer's resources are not enough to handle audio on top of everything else. It could also be your internet connection handling so much traffic.