BleepingComputer.com: Static audio when using bandwidth

I have two laptops that this issue has presented on ( i don't remember if it happened on win vista but it could have, so if it did its a win 7/vista issue) ( also one of the laptops whole inside was replaced i think 2X, so you could say 3-4 computers i guess then) Plus a 7 year old desktop i have. The issue is that when your downloading, or even when a large or possibly small amount of bandwidth is being used, if your watching streaming audio/video or even video/audio on your hard drive you may see choppiness, or usually hear static or poppy audio or something of that sort. I believe its a windows issue because my desktop is a custom PC, and before it had win 7 on it i never had this issue with windows XP. All of these computers are capable of easily handling this type of media and downloading. The laptops are all dual cores with 4 GB of ram and the desktop is a 2.6 P4 with 2 gb of ram. And i think the chances of having potentially 4 bad computers, and a desktop that suddenly goes bad in the same way is pretty slim. Plus its not the internet connection, Ive checked it in other area's with WIFI.

Operating systems are win 7 home premium and windows 7 Professional.

The problem happens almost always, depending on how much bandwidth is being used, its more noticeable when 100+ kbps is going through.

Trying to get help from Microsoft, but those idiots are Try it in safe mode, try it on a clean boot....its like uhm the audio drivers are all turned off then.....duh


Anyone have any solutions or idea's?

actually the clean boot idea is not turning off the drivers.
only in safe mode does it not load the audio drivers.

so it is recommended you do a clean boot to find out if you have any interferring software such as an antivirus or firewall program that is using resource when you are streaming.

interesting because when i hit diagnostic start up it did not load my audio drivers.....

Thank you very much!

What they mean by clean boot is going into msconfig and temporarily disabling all startup programs and services.
This is not a startup option that is selectable from the startup menu.
It has to be done manually.
You are correct that the startup menu options will kill unnecessary drivers.