XP Home Edition
Athalon XP 2100
256MB PC2700
Soundblaster 128 PCI

Had no problems with audio until I had to reinstall XP. After I reinstalled... using either WMP-10 or Creative Play Center... audio skips in various places. Only play MP3's so I don't know if it is all types of audio. It will skip bad in one place... replay and it won't skip in that place anymore, it will be somewhere else. It is not dead sound it just jumps .01-.5 seconds ahead and it is aggrevating to listen to music !

puke: Have updated WMP from V9 to V10... no fix.
puke: Have updated drivers for SB 128 PCI... no fix.
puke: Have done Windows update and installed software driver for Creative Labs sound card... that makes the sound card not work at all, and takes the volume icon away from the tray.
puke: Have unsat and reseated my soundcard.
puke: Have put through dishwasher to get all the dust off, no soap, just kidding.

Here is some more information...
Performance Setting are set to Programs...Programs.
Virtual Memory is set at 750MBinitial 750MBmax.
There isn't anything conflicting in device manager.
WMP or Play Center is only program open.
Tray is not loaded down with processes running.

Help Please.
Can't stand not being able to stand listening to music.

Did you do a clean install or re-install over the old OS? Its been my experience that the only way to avoid problems is to format and do a clean install especially with XP.

Format
Clean Install

For some reason, your PC may not support doing "Digital" audio when playing a cd (instead of using the audio cable that comes from your drive to the sound card).

Try the following link (will work in XP) but uncheck "Enable digital CD audio for this device" aka turn it off.

http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Other_Articles/Win2K_Tips/CD_Audio_Quality/CD_Audio_Quality.htm

In Windows XP and newer PC's this is turned on by default now.

I had the same problem and this worked for me.

Click on the "Sounds and Audio Devices" under the control panel
Click on the "Audio" tab
Click the "Advanced" button under "Sound Playback"
Click the Performance tab
Move the slider for "Hardware Accelertion" all the way to the left "None"

Good luck

Click on the "Sounds and Audio Devices" under the control panel
Click on the "Audio" tab
Click the "Advanced" button under "Sound Playback"
Click the Performance tab
Move the slider for "Hardware Accelertion" all the way to the left "None"

THIS WORKED~!
Thanks mucho.