playing sound under water

i had my computer running win me, the sound played fine. i upgraded to win 2000 pro, now when i play a sound file in winamp, windows media player, or any player, it sounds like its playing under water, and its slow. like slowing a record player down by hand. i upgraded all the device drivers for motherboard, sound card( built in sound), none of which helped. i think it has something to do with win 2000 not letting things write directly to hardware.if anyone knows a fix for this, or how i can get around this, let me know, im out of options. thanks

is there a difference when u play something directly from the cd-rom or from the Hard disk ?

there is no differance.
<is there a difference when u play something directly from the cd-rom or from the Hard disk ?

hmmm,where else would i play it from?

Can you give us more information?
What is you sound-card? model?

Hmm, is this the newest version of the drivers?

i dont know but by asking how the and where the files are being played on we get more info
and as i always say

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That's one of the reason that repelled me from using Win2000
or XP, the pre-installed drivers:mad:
But i ripped everything off XP and re-installed it from the ground-
up.
Try installing a new drivers, what card you have?

Hah, there were no preinstalled drivers for my sound card or modem.. never had to worry about anything, cept getting the drivers (did) lol.

Its a abit bl7 motherboard with built in ac 97 sound, and yes, latest drivers. i guess ill go back to win me cause i need my sound to work right, i play a lot of music while im working on it.unless i can find out how to get win 2000 away from the hardware.

I use the AC97 onboard sound with Win2K, and IIRC the drivers were a real pain.
Try grabbing the VIA 4in1 drivers if you haven't already. All I can suggest is uninstall the sound drivers, download some new ones from VIA and install. Keep trying.

Easy option, go out, pick up a good sound card (OEm is the cheapest) whack it in. Disable the onboard sound and love your machine forever.