Sound lagging problem - really annoying

[windows 7 was my idea]

update the driver or check your internet speeds if your listening to music online

[AceInfinity]

update the driver or check your internet speeds if your listening to music online

He said it happens with online and offline music

[Treblez]

thanks to all for the answers. I downloeaded the drivers fro win7 from the asus site and installed them. its still the same. That all sound- games, movies, mp3 everything. Its like music plays and sometimes a "ZZZZT" or RRRT is heard for like 0.001 seconds . With headphones is the same. I noticed when the lag happens the mouse also lags - like its left behind and then catches up for a tiny bit of the second. Strange thing is none of this happened before. I installed linux and when I swithced back to win this started happening. CPU now is at 15-20% and RAM is about 950MB of 2GB total. Probably the reason is the CPU having sudden peaks but why this havent happened before?
edit: i noticed Im with my first avatar here from a long time ago. lol did some rollback happened

[AceInfinity]

thanks to all for the answers. I downloeaded the drivers fro win7 from the asus site and installed them. its still the same. That all sound- games, movies, mp3 everything. Its like music plays and sometimes a "ZZZZT" or RRRT is heard for like 0.001 seconds . With headphones is the same. I noticed when the lag happens the mouse also lags - like its left behind and then catches up for a tiny bit of the second. Strange thing is none of this happened before. I installed linux and when I swithced back to win this started happening. CPU now is at 15-20% and RAM is about 950MB of 2GB total. Probably the reason is the CPU having sudden peaks but why this havent happened before?
edit: i noticed Im with my first avatar here from a long time ago. lol did some rollback happened

If your CPU is spiking, you might want to check the event viewer to see what's going on in there.

[phire nuk3r]

Sounds to me like it could be the H/D.
The H/D can get bad sectors, and give a like "jumping" affect when attempting to listen to music watch videos etc.

If this is correct, you will also have noticed a longer boot time, and slower responses from your pc, also watching videos will also be broken.

If all of the above is not correct, then you need more RAM.

[Treblez]

Sounds to me like it could be the H/D.
The H/D can get bad sectors, and give a like "jumping" affect when attempting to listen to music watch videos etc.

If this is correct, you will also have noticed a longer boot time, and slower responses from your pc, also watching videos will also be broken.

If all of the above is not correct, then you need more RAM.

if I have bad sectors can I fix them ? also can I get bad sectors from when I resized and moved partitions under linux ?

[Treblez]

I was watching the performance of the processors and I notices sudden peaks without any obvious reason. The lags is heard when those peaks occur. I checked events viewer and here are the events I found that I think may be relevant.

Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0x00FF97085594. The following error occurred: 0x79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.

I know there is some problem with the DHCP server of my ISP and sometimes I cant connect to the internet and I have to run a command in CMD. I unplugged the LAN cable but the lag still happens.

CPU time stamp frequency has changed from 943108 to 1994879 ticks per millisecond. The new frequency will be used.

source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS

I stopped the service, but the lag still happens. Im pretty sure the RAM is enough because it had perfect sound for 2 years now. Any other ideas ?