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