Garbled audio?

[bilditup1]

Recently audio from WMC has been coming out garbled and delayed. I only watch via Extenders - Ceton Echos and Xbox 360. Symptoms are not localized to any extender. Have updated Intel Graphics and Display Audio drivers to their latest versions - no change. Have switched Dolby Digital bitstreaming on and off - again, no change.

Any ideas? I'm at the end of my rope and increasingly infuriated once more at how fragile WMC is and at the utter lack of usable replacements available for it.

[DanH]

Not sure if this will help or not, but I had audio problems shortly before my power supply bit the dust. If you have any way of testing it, check the power supply. If not, buy a USB audio device (can't be all that expensive) and see if that is any better.

Is your current audio part of your motherboard or an add-on card?

I have found Media Center under Windows 7 to be very stable

[bilditup1]

Not sure if this will help or not, but I had audio problems shortly before my power supply bit the dust. If you have any way of testing it, check the power supply. If not, buy a USB audio device (can't be all that expensive) and see if that is any better.

Is your current audio part of your motherboard or an add-on card?

I have found Media Center under Windows 7 to be very stable

Neither - the only playback I'm doing is via Extenders. The PC itself simply works as a backend. Onboard, there are drivers installed for audio via HDMI and via the motherboard's built-in sound card (some Realtek flavor).
Meanwhile, the situation has deteriorated: sound is now randomly dropping out completely, across all TVs.
Anyway. Thanks for chiming in.

[bilditup1]

As for WMC - all I can say is, you're one of the lucky ones.