NX and new dell laptop shuttering / skipp

Question

My college recently replaced my old Dell C540 (.7 ghz celeron, 630 mb RAM) with a newer Dell D60 (.6 ghz pentium M, 52 mb RAM).
Before the switch, my NX with my Logitech 2200 speakers worked great. However, now I am hearing random shuttering and skipping while listening to any music (mp3s, streaming audo, etc).
If I use the onboard audio card, there is no skipping.
This happens if only the program playing the music is running (so lots of free memory) and whether or not the laptop is plugged in.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

I was searching through on a sound distortion problem of my own, and this thread helped me isolate it. Similar but different:?I have an HP Omnibook 6000 laptop.
I installed an Audigy 2ZS PCI card in a full docking station, which is connected to my network via my house ethernet. I run iTunes on it over the network, with the music all stored on a system in my office. I set it up this way because I wanted a higher quality audio connection going into my stereo system, and it served that purpose quite well. Worked great, until..... If I pulled the laptop out of the docking station, and used the onboard audio, I had terrible audio distortion. I was assuming that it was a conflict between the Creative software installed and the onboad audio, until I read this post. I was, indeed, using a wireless ethernet connection when the laptop was undocked. Pulling out the wireless card and connecting the laptop to a wired connection eliminated the problem. Now, here's the odd part:? Prior to installing the SoundBlaster and associated software, my laptop worked FINE running iTunes over my wireless network using the onboard audio. So, somehow there appears to be a resource issue between Windows XP wireless networking and the Creative software. Has anyone out there run into this sort of issue before? I did a cursory search of this forum and haven't run into anything quite like it.