Audio stutters and skips

Hi, when I play music on my computer it stutters and skips when I open applications or surf the web. Everytime I click on something it stutters or skips. Please Help!!! I have a Pavillion dv6.

i looked at that link and even tried some of the fixes it suggested but it didn't fix the problem. i still get skips and jumps in the video playing while the audio runs fine. i have tried restarting in safe mode and that didn't fix it. i watch alot of videos online, but as it is, it is making it almost impossible to watch videos and understand what is going on.

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Hi, QuickTimeKirk,
You asked an interesting question, and here are the results;
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Hard to believe there are no takers.
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