All desktop audio plays fast, until I start a youtube video

[Shigawire]

All desktop audio plays fast, until I start a youtube video.. and put it on pause... then all other audio also normalizes. So in order to listen to an mp3, watch a movie, or anything like that.. I need to have a youtube video (or a adobe web flash video) running.

Computer games are exempt from this phenomena and exhibit only normal audio behavior. Thats why I wrote "Desktop audio."

Soundcard: Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality
Windows XP Pro SP3
Mobo: Asus Striker Extreme
CPU: Intel Extreme QX6700
2gb ram
etc..

The onboard audio is disabled in BIOS btw.

This is a very weird problem. Anyone have a tip?

 

[e_engineer]

yeah its very interesting

 

[Darth_Terra1]

Try re-installing and updating the driver for the sound card if you haven't done so already, see if that helps.