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Lately I’ve been having problems with the sound on my computer. Whatever I play, it seems to skip occasionally. It’s not the mp3s or the player, because it occurs even when I play games. I started to think it may be my A/V receiver I have my computer hooked to, but when I use my game consoles, the sound is fine. So I guess it’s either my computer or the connection to the receiver, but I doubled checked the cable and it’s not loose. I’m using a digital cable from the spdif output on my Sound Blaster Live. It almost seems like it’s happening because of little power surges or something. I’m almost certain it’s the digital connection, because I plugged some headphones into the analog output and there’s no skipping, though I may need to double check.

update:
It is definately only happening on the digital output as the analog output is fine. I moved the sound card to a different slot and also changed the “coaxial” audio cable, but same problem. I may try a clean Windows install to see if that helps, but I don’t see why it should. I may also try a different surge protector as it seems to be power related. If all that fails, then it would be safe to say my sound card is screwed, or at least the digial i/o add-on card is. Hmm, I always wanted to get an Audigy 2.