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. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------