Occasional Distortion of Audio

I have a Pavilion dv7 laptop and whenever I play music the sound occasionally distorts for a couple of seconds. At first I thought there was something wrong with certain songs I played but it happens randomly for all the music I play and never in the same place twice. It happens about 2-3 times every 5 songs or so. I know it's not the speaker because it happens whether I have speakers plugged in or not. I suspect it's something to do with the sound card? Please help!
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1. Write down Your p/n which is under Your computer and looks like this.
2. Have You got installed in your system any codecs now? If yes then write which one.
3. Go to:
Control Panel -> Devices Manager -> Audio, Video and Games Controllers
and find there IDT audio card. Click on it with right button of your mouse and choose properties. Then go to ' Details ' tab and paste here Hardware Ids . This way we will know what it is.
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