Is My Sound Card Dead?

Ok well after downgrading from Vista to XP MCE on my Inspiron 1505 I noticed all of my mp3's were skipping every second on the dot almost.

After XP was done installing, none of my drivers were installed so I went and transfered the Intel wireless over and then downloaded the sigmatel driver for audio and same thing happend. It is acting like it does when I am downloading stuff and using extra bandwidth. All of my drivers are up to date and im not really sure what else to do besides start looking into some USB or other type of sound cards. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot

 

Dell's website has all of the drivers for the E1505.
When I bought my E1505, the first thing I did was install XP, and I have had zero problems.

Here is a link to all of the drivers for the system:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=INSPIRONI6400/E1505&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

Just download them all and save them to a folder in my computer somewhere. After installing all of the drivers, make a cd or dvd backup of all of the drivers, so that you do not have to be bothered at a later time

K-TRON

 

Ive done that countless times, my question was is my sound card dead. Ive reformatted twice with the dell XP MCE dvd and same sounds after installing the driver witch I am sure is sigmatel

 

Your sound card is most likely not dead, there is just a driver issue.
Have you tried using different audio programs (realplayer, windows media, vlc, divx etc?)

I have the sigma tel drivers and they are working fine.

Did you have this audio problem before installing xp?
If you didnt, than its software based.

Does this happen when you use headphones?

K-TRON

 

Ive used VLC, Media player classic, tried flash videos online(youtube etc.) and WMP
I also have the sigma tel driver installed fresh from dells site. Ive reinstalled it about 5 times in the past two days and have reformatted once.
No it was not doing this when I had Vista but it did always skip when I was using a good amount of bandwidth no matter what.
And yes it skips when I use headphones also

 

There was an issue with Sigmatel audio drivers. If I remember, the fix was to disable the application that puts the audio icon on the taskbar. I don't know why, but that was the fix

 

Just tried that and same skipping happening. Thanks for the suggestion

 

Okay, found the problem:
http://help.lockergnome.com/general/Audio-skipping-laptop-ftopict49019.html

The answer is half way down the page.
It supposedly has something to do with the cpu throttling.
Try setting the power settings to always on, and see what happens.

K-TRON

 

Ok well I went ahead and downloaded SpeedswitchXP and switched my CPU speed to max performance and did not change a thing. I then downloaded EndIt All2 and killed every possible thing and went ahead and tried to play an mp3 but no luck. Music is still skipping and also text in notepad

EDIT: I also noticed my internet is very very slow (web pages loading like 56K). Ive checked the router and all seems norm. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it