Computer slow down and audio distortion

[L337_m0j0]

Out of no where when i tried opening one of my games, my computer then got slower than usual and my sound then becomes very echoey/distorted and much slower. I later found out that this happens when i try to start ANY application that uses sound (except for stuff like windows media player/vlc, and winamp which are fine...)

My computer boots fine and there are no problems until i open a program such as quake 3 or even ventrilo.

I reinstalled my audio drivers many times.

i have a K8NE-Deluxe mother board and i am using the onboard sound card drivers.

i dont know what the problem could be...any suggestions?

 

[Baez]

What are the rest of your system specs? Particularily how much RAM do you have?

 

[L337_m0j0]

1gb of RAM

6600GT

onboard network card.

found out the problem...for some reason my "Standard Game Port" was causing the problem. I uninstalled it and i do not get the problem anymore.

Why the **** was this a problem in the first place? lol

 

[KSoD]

It could very well be the problme in many cases. In Vista the Game Ports are not active or in use anymore. Same with Windows 7. So having a driver installed for it could easily cause conflicts.

With XP if the driver in use was out dated it could have been the problem.

 

[L337_m0j0]

but ive been using my computer for so long and now it just started to happen. I didnt do any windows updates or anything like that. Not even new software. It just all of a sudden started happening lol

 

[KSoD]

Do you have Auto updates on? If so it could have been one of those updates that installed. It could have been due to something else like a spyware or something that messed with your system.

 

[L337_m0j0]

"I didnt do any windows updates"

but w/e its fixed lol

 

[Baez]

Sometimes computers just like to screw up without reason. This looks like it's one of those cases.