Sound cuts out after continuously playing for about 1/2 and hour.

[efty66]

When playing windows media player or trying to watch a video of sorts, the sound plays up, comes on and then stops for no reason. If I press stop and then play, it starts playing straight away and then cuts out every couple of minutes for about 1/2 an hour and then cuts out all together and does not come back on until you restart the comp. I am not very comp savvy so please help me to understand what is going wrong.

Cheers
efty66

[Idnew]

Why did you post 3 topics on this? Un-install it and re-install it. Or it could be your memory just gets low.

[efty66]

sorry idnew, comp kept freezing up and when I went to check if it had posted, I couldnt see it. When I had realised that it did indeed post 3 times I tried to delete the other 2 posts but wasnt sure how to. I thought I had deleted the other 2 posts by unsubcribing from them. So now I know, it didnt work. As for uninstall and reinstall, I have tried this but does the same thing, as for being low in memory, I have plenty of memory left.

thanks
efty

[jmtjet]

comp kept freezing up

I have a feeling the two issues are related. Have you done a virus scan lately and is your AV up to date? Might be a good idea to do an on-line scan. Here's a couple of links to two good on-line scanners;

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm

You might also consider posting a HiJack This log in the Cybersafety forum and let the security experts take a look. Be sure to read the sticky posts at the top and follow their directions.

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...splay.php?f=25

Hope this helps you resolve your issues.

[Idnew]

Ok first have you defragged lately? If not that might be the reason for your freezing up so boot to safe mode and defrag first.