Music playback "skips"

My best guess would be that your sound card is dying...

Speaking of computer problems... I just installed my nvidia 680i motherboard and for some reason it only supports two sticks of 512 mb RAM. When I put a third and fourth in the motherboard it gives me the C1 error (bad ram) and won't even boot to bios. I've tried switching the ram around but no matter what combination, if more than 2 sticks are in, it gives the error. Could it have to do with voltage? I don't want to mess with voltage unless I can confirm thats the problem. Don't need to fry my RAM

 

No go Sentrosi. I read that thread awhile back. It almost seems like DIMMs 2 and 3 (the black ones) simply refuse to accept RAM. I can do any combination of ram in 0 and 1 (the blue ones) and it will boot fine, however when I put one in the black slots C1 error runs rampant. I'm getting 2 sticks of 1gb RAM to compensate for now and keep my 2 gigs of ram, seeing that I want to upgrade to 4gbs of ram sooner or later. Hopefully someone will find a solution to this problem, apparently a lot of other people are having this same problem with their second set of RAM being installed.

 

Who said I'm lacking Internet? Lacking good solid internet, maybe, but a little internet is enough. I concur with the idea of a dying sound card.

With Lord of the Rings Online beta, I had terrible chop in audio - never had it on any other software and still didn't but chop in that game was unbearable. I tried removing and re-installing drivers - switching to the on-board sound as primary (was actually 500 % worse).

During my last hardware setup, I accidentally plugged my speaker output into my sound card's sound-out jack and blew up its output amp. Since this card is pretty much useless to me now, I physically removed the card from the system leaving my on-board card as primary. I expected the audio chop was going to be horrible but much to my amazement, sound was flawless with absolutely no hint of chop at all. Obviously despite no other symptoms on any other piece of software, my sound card hardware must have had some sort of problem as physical removal made the difference.

The moral of this story is that you can't always just software switch devices to diagnose this kind of problem. Try un-installing the driver, pull the card, and leave the on-board driver as primary and see if the problems goes away - if it does, it's a hardware problem with the card.

 

Well laptops are tougher - if it's hardware, then your kinda screwed unless a usb card works ok. I'd agree with Hamma at this point, - strip out all the stuff - let it re-install with the latest drivers and see what happens. About the only other thing you could do is a total reload of the OS if that fails - beyond that either and external card via USB or send it back for MB replacement.