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*EDIT - Solved. It was a driver problem. I reinstalled (again) and it works fine now. Go figure. So much for tech support. I'll leave this here in case anyone else has the same problem...

I recently got a new HP Laptop. I did buy it on E-bay, but it came brand new, in the original packaging.

So my problem is that when I try to listen to audio, it will start out fine and then kind of pop in and out and become very distorted like I'm listening to record player and not a computer. This happens with every audio I listen to, whether it's on an mp3 on my hard drive, or a movie on you tube, it doesn't matter. It also doesn't matter whether I'm wearing headphones or just listening to the computer stereo. The distortion is the same.

• I've reinstalled drivers to both the stereo and the headphones, so I don't think that's the problem, but I could have done something wrong there. (However, more than half the time the drivers fail to install. I don't know what's up with that.)
• I have heard that electronic distortion can mess with your speakers, but I have no other electronics in the room.
• I have also heard that it could be caused by a conflict in the computer speaker and device volume, but I've checked that as well to no avail.

I believe this happened soon after I restored my computer from some nasty malware, but it could be that I just hadn't noticed it before then or attributed the distorted to a bad internet connection. I don't know what to do. That's why I'm here.

Here's the run down on my computer:

It's an HP Notebook PC Model G60-247CL, running on Vista Home Premium. 32 bit.
I have an AMD Turion Duel-Core RM-72 and 3 GB of RAM.

If you need any more information I'll definitely do my best to get it for you. Any insight on this problem would be helpful. Thank you.