Sound goes out at annoying times.?

Question

This has been going on for a while but i am not sure when it exactly started. A lot of the times when i play counter stike source or sims 2 or rollercoaster tycoon 3 my sound will just not play. also when i play music on a music player for example windows media, winamp, musicmatch. i can play music from the internet. also when my sound goes out youtube vids or any vids that stream only play for 2 seconds then freezes. i have a p5p 800 motherboard with a built in sound card made by soundmax. had to install drivers in compatability mode because i use windows vista. i also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers but still nothing worked. please help this is a very annoying issue because games are less appealing with out sound.

Answer 1

i have a compaq and since day one the sound  goes out on my computer and i get a high pitch beeping sound then it goes out and i have to turn off my computer 4 or 5 times to get sound back . But I know what ever does it is related to what lets you hear sound . im willing to bet its the soundcard and I bet its your soundcard to . a computer is like a car never fails c**p always goes out on them and u can ither replace the part or scrap it and get a knew  one. by the way ur ocmputer wouldnt happen to be an HP or comapq would it im starting to ocasionally read about other people having trouble with sound on comapqs and HP . also if you have an emachine then that doesnt surpirse me at all about the sound worst computers ever made .