Skipping/Freezing Of Music And Programs. Video Also Skips.

Question

For the last few day I've been having problems with my computer. I have a Pavillion dv7-4177nr Entertainment Notebook. The problem I've been having is that no matter what program I use to play music through (Like mp3 files) I get a skipping like problem and eventually if it gets bad enough the program starts to freeze and then I have to hold the power down to reset the computer which really sucks. So far to fix this problem I've tried everything I can think of as well as what little I've found on the internet that others suggested. But nothing has worked thus far. So far I've uninstalled the drivers and updated them, turned off 3d hard drive protection, downloaded this program called dcp checker which had no spikes when playing music or videos, re downloaded and installed the bios update, Updated everything else that needed to be updated, hard reseted the computer, cleaned up the registry and defraged the computer, checked the hard drive with all the different checks they had, and I think that was about it. Videos that I stream tend to skip every once in awhile and so does the sound. Its starting to become very annoying and I'd much rather not have to factory default my computer. I can't go back to a previous date in system restore cause I clean up my computer every couple months to free up space that isn't needed. I know its not my ram for I have 6GB's of RAM and my HDD is barely even half full. I checked for viruses and spyware and malware and came up with nothing but cookies. which is usual. I can't help but think that this problem started when SP1 was issues for Windows 7 (64 bit) cause prior to that I believe that there was no skipping in sound and video. I also tried turning off my wifi driver to see if that would work which it didn't. I know this is a long message but there was a lot that was never answered and never an actual solution to the problems which myself and other people were and are having. I've also turned off the enhancements for the sound to see if that would work to which it didn't. If anybody has a solution other than factory defaulting my computer please let me know. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I must say this card combined with 5. speakers set up with everything enabled sounds awesome. I had absolutely no problems with crackiling or popping and muy board is an asus A-8 based one in an HP 939 set up....Anyway to be a bit cleare, What Id like to know is should I set things like dolby digital and other digital stuff by ear? I do it either way it seems to make zero difference,,,,If I enable it or not...Stereo expand on cmss is anotherr one,,,Do i enable that or put it on surround? None of these things are to easy for me, I can mess with most computer settings but am lost when it comes to sound....Just looking for basic advice that does not come in the manual.