I'm running a computer with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and for the past year and a half it's been perfect. This morning, however, completely out of nowhere my sound started skipping and stuttering, not unlike what you hear when a scratched CD skips in a CD player, whenever I watched a video, played music or opened a game. It also seems to affect the rest of my system as well, and when the sound skips so does my mouse and keyboard control, although curiously my video is usually unaffected. I went into msconfig and disabled most startup programs except the sound drivers, and that seemed to lessen it and almost got rid of it altogether. However, since the problem started my computer has taken longer and longer to start up, and the problem itself has been getting significantly worse. Online research suggests that this may be the result of a failing power supply, but before I go out and buy another one, could it possibly be something else?
My specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 970 3.6 GHz Quad Core
Motherboard: ASUS M48A7TD
Ram: 8 GB Corsair DDR3 (not sure of the model/speed but it's decent)
Video: ATI Radeon HD5750
Onboard Sound and LAN
Coolmax 600W Power Supply
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, fully updated with all service packs
Case is a well-ventilated Cooler Master
My specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 970 3.6 GHz Quad Core
Motherboard: ASUS M48A7TD
Ram: 8 GB Corsair DDR3 (not sure of the model/speed but it's decent)
Video: ATI Radeon HD5750
Onboard Sound and LAN
Coolmax 600W Power Supply
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, fully updated with all service packs
Case is a well-ventilated Cooler Master