I have been having this stuttering audio problem on youtube.com or any software player[Itunes,Winamp etc.] except Foobar2000 with wasapi in Vista. My laptop is an older Dell Inspiron 1505 with 2gigs ram,ATI graphics and wirelessN ...I have tried the following: updating sata drivers,wireless...

I got a surprise today when I heard the "received mail" sound interupting my  music listening today. Usually all Windows Vista sounds are inaudible when foobar is playing. I am using a crappy Sigmatel sound card on a Dell Inspiron laptop. Can anyone explain this. Thanks.  

Ever since I installed Vista on my Dell Inspiron e1505 I have had staticy, choppy audio with the Sigmatel audio chip sound card. I tried various wireless card, video and sound drivers but the result was always the same. I found an answer recently in another forum: Updating the SATA and Usb...