Annoying Music Stuttering Problem

[BloomerzUK]

Hi,

Latey my music has been stuttering a lot. This happens when I open a new page in Firefox or in Explorer browsing through files, or even opening programs files. It has a slight pause and a crackle'ish sound to it. Very annoying.

This was normally stopped by a restart of the system, and all is dandy.

But lately it hasn't stopped it; it keeps doing it, straight from bootup.

Before this it was fine.

Things I've done:

• Formatted and Installed Server 2008 x64 (put it in 'Vista' Mode using guides) and install all drivers (Audio, GFX and Chipset/Motherboard), was previous Vista Ultimate x64
• Uninstalled Audio Driver and re-installed it
• My CPU is OC'd to 2.6 GHz from 1.8GHz (Intel C2D E4300), and I've downclocked it, abit.. should I put it back to stock? (It was working for ages fine before this)

Is there anything else I can try. I've Google'd and most people say it's a RAID Problem, but I've haven't got RAID. Another person on this forum had the same problem; he changed the SATA Ports.

My spec is:

• E4300 @ 2.6GHz
• Gigabyte P965-DS3 (rev 3.3)
• 4GB GeIL RAM PC6400
• Seagate 7200.9 200GB
• Western Digital 250GB
• MX Revolution Wireless Mouse (Mentioned this as sometimes I've heard this causes problems)

I am completely stumped.. so any input is appreciated .

Thanks in Advance,

Jake

 

[BloomerzUK]

I think it was the overclock. I reset the BIOS back to default and it seems to have cured it. I will report back if I get any change.