slow audio playback, garbled

studiorat said:

i have 7100 RC
lately my audio has been a wreck slow playback that pops in and out of speed
normal speed for a second then slow garbled playback on everything i tunes winamp, wmp, youtube, you name it!! What could it be?

One of my kinship members (a kinship is a guild for Lord of the Rings Online) reported similar problems. He's toggling between using an on-board sound chip and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS. Apparently the sound drivers for Creative Labs chips are really quirky. He had all sorts of problems from stuttering Ventrilo chat to audio quality that was sub-par, full of static for playback and microphone recording.

He recently wiped the system and reinstalled Windows 7 RC-1 and he's fine again.

He gave up trying to trouble shoot it and the reinstall fixed it.

studiorat said:

i have 7100 RC
lately my audio has been a wreck slow playback that pops in and out of speed
normal speed for a second then slow garbled playback on everything i tunes winamp, wmp, youtube, you name it!! What could it be? is it a Driver, maybe a CPU issue is there a clock for sync on most computers, to keep stability, I work for a Major recording Studio an Usually any kind of Audio issue dealing with speed is usually an internal clocking issue or the source clock and our clock is not syncing, big problem easily rectified, but with this I am confused can somebody offer some assistance, the headphones are fine audio playback is fine in headphones , confusing!!

Can you please shed some light on your specs or at least the sound card in question?