Thanks again

I use headphones and speakers and am pretty sure that it's not the wiring or
connections.
This would be the first time in 3 years that Comcast has interferred with my
downloads. The problem occurs even when I play commercial CDs.

Do you think I might need to run chkdsk ?

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

> If you're very certain that nothing else is running in the background
> when you experience the problem I would investigate the following:
>
> 1- Speakers not plugged in or blown?
> 2- ISP throttling your downloads?
> 3- Undetected malware.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> cuppajava wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > The task manager indicates system idle process using 99% or so when the
> > problem occurs. Just about all other processes were at 0% or so. ???
> > This audio degradation occurs even when I listen to an internet radio like
> > Launchcast or Radioio.
> >
> > "Leonard Grey" wrote:
> >
> >> Try this:
> >>
> >> Open Task Manager and park it in a corner of your monitor. Select the
> >> Processes tab and display the process in decreasing order of CPU usage.
> >> When you experience the problem, look over to Task Manager and notice
> >> with processes are occupying most of the CPU.
> >>
> >> My guess is that there are CPU-intensive applications running in the
> >> background - either intentionally or because your computer is infected.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Leonard Grey
> >> Errare humanum est
> >>
> >> cuppajava wrote:
> >>> When I playback either audio or video using any medium, WMP,Realplayer,
> >>> Quicktime, the audio and video are degraded. Its like the file is slowly
> >>> grinding down and speeding up. At points, it sounds normal yet slower than it
> >>> should. Even the startup jingle for Windows sounds gravelly.
> >>> Please help.
> >>>
> >>> Thank You
>