playing sound under water

[scott27349]

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

[GanglyLamb]

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

[scott27349]

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?

[Vber]

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

Hmm, is this the newest version of the drivers?

[GanglyLamb]

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

knowledge is power
power means money

[Travis Dane]

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

[civix]

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

[scott27349]

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.

[Eibro]

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.

[Necrodeemer]

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.