Choppy sound on K7T Turbo2

Putting together a new system for a friend.  It is based on the MSI K7T Turbo2 MB.   I am using the onboard sound.  But when I play back music or video, the sound is choppy.  It gets worse when I am doing things on system, like opening files or accessing programs.   When I do this, the sound goes into a "slow down mode" as if it does not have enough power to keep up - like it's losing resources.
I am running windows XP pro with athlon xp1800 cpu and 256mb ram.
Any suggestions?  I have tried three different drivers so far (one from windows, one from the cd, and one from the website).
Any suggestions would be most helpfull!   Thanks!

OK!  Just wanted to post back my findings.. as I tried some last few ditch efforts before replacing the board entirely.
Just trying different things moving to hardware, since I didnt think it was software related at this point.  I was thinking hard drive, because of the slow down of the sound while doing other things.  I was thinking of replacing the hard drive and trying, but I thought I would change the IDE port.
I moved the hard drive from IDE0 to IDE1 .. and low and behold!!!  Sound issue fixed!!!   Its flawless now.   Craziest thing I have ever seen!   I still don't know if IDE0 is a bad port or if the system just doesnt like IDE0.. but I dont care at this point.. it works.
*shakes head*

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