Sound skips/cracks under windows 7 32bits

[smiths22]

From Toshia laptops at Dells to Lenovos, i found the crackling sound to be related to drivers which could extend to chipset drivers. If you think you've done all you could with drivers update, then i would compare the PCI Hardware IDs of the device with the driver's .inf file. As hard to believe is it may sound by the system might not be picking up the correct .inf file to use.

Me three! Between reinstalling drivers and the odd microsoft update over the last couple of months my sound has settled down and no more glitches.

I too thought it woz not enough processor power coz I run a Barton 3000 on a 7 yr old socket A motherboard - but no it is purely crap implementation of various drivers and their interaction between each other on Windows 7.
(By the way all my MP3's are played/recorded on highest MP3 setting 320Kbps)

I was checking out the memory area used (in 'system') and Realtek shares with USB 2.0 chipset (with a very close/similar numeric memory mapped area)
- poss could the glitch problem be when USB Wireless download/Mouse movement/Sound kick into action etc

yes i too would love to blame the blad implemented drivers for this but....in xp this problem didn't exist (at least for me) so i blame windows 7 definitely.

 

[whs]

Run the DPC Latency Checker. If you are in the green, you are OK. But red bars usually indicate a driver problem. DPC LC can help you identify them.

 

[smiths22]

Run the DPC Latency Checker. If you are in the green, you are OK. But red bars usually indicate a driver problem. DPC LC can help you identify them.

Yes i did that a few days ago. sporadic red bars from time to time tough..

I blame windows 7, VIA audio drivers, asus, and linksys usb adapters.

while playin audio every time i open my cd's tray cracks sounds.