Hmm, that is very interesting... it sounds like all the "most likely" causes have been replaced, so you have to think outside the box now. Ermmm, I meant that figuratively, not physically, even though figuratively could mean physically. Like some kind of interference might be getting in... do you have high voltage power lines nearby? Or a cell tower, or radio station, or cab company, or police, or any place that might be broadcasting some kind of signal? It could even be an old leaky microwave oven or wireless router. Probably the best way to find out would be to bring it somewhere at least 5 or 10 miles away and try it. Was Best Buy able to reproduce the problem at their store? If this is not the case and since you have already had all the hardware replaced (hopefully they did replace those parts you mentioned), then the only other thing I can think of would be some kind of software conflict. Has the OS been re-installed (hopefully to factory image)? Did you install a lot of software on the PC? This type of problem could be a hard to figure out, but I doubt their "factory fresh install" version of Windows could have such a problem without a lot of people complaining. That would mean that it is probably caused by software that you installed. If you never had it brought back to factory fresh install, then it is very possible that something just got corrupt and re-installing could fix it. If you try this, then make sure you have all your important data backed up first. Trying the PC at another location would be much easier to try first. Ed -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Boswell Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:41 PM To: PCTechTalk Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited I hope a few list folks remember me and my never ending case. I need a few suggestions, if for nothing else but my general psychological well-being about the way my problem has progressed, or rather digressed, as it were. As you might recall, whenever I played a CD, DVD, downloaded music file, online video or recording, Internet radio site or .wav sound bite, after a short while I would get a sudden distortion of the music which sounded rather like a dragging phonograph record and/or a badly scratched vinyl recording. The distortion would soon stop but it always came back, on and off, throughout the entire length of the recording. I took the computer tower back to Best Buy where I bought it just nine short months ago in December 2010 and they eventually sent it off to the Geek Squad repair store in Louisville, KY where the Geek Agents replaced the motherboard and returned the computer to me yesterday. I thought all was well until I decided to play my all-time favorite version of “Yea, Alabama” (just to pump myself up for the big game Saturday) and discovered—my great horror that the distortion was STILL there. I take it as a good thing that I sold my Glock some time ago. Now, this thing has turned into one deuce of a mind boggling morass. The Geek Cops tried replacing the sound card (nothing doing!), the speakers (ditto!), and finally the motherboard itself (the music still sounds like Jimmy Carter in the outhouse). I even did my N’awlins, LA Lady Marmalade cross-dressing voodoo vamp and mojo boogie. I finally downloaded Real Player thinking that my Windows Media Player might have been the victim of a hacking most foul and that Microsoft itself was the culprit--the sand in the Royal Jelly, so to speak. Nope...same results—Coltrane was still in drag, Sonny Rollins too, and Ella Fitzgerald sounded like she was scat dancing through a mine field. What to do? What to do? Well, I called Best Buy again. At this point, I think they plan to just swap out my computer tower out for another of similar statue. Will that solve my problem? Who knows! We got Obama after Bush, didn’t we? Walt --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. 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