Solved! Audio skipping with my Acer Aspire 5532

[Nicodemus2]

I have an Acer Aspire 5532 with Windows 7. It's a year old. I just noticed the audio will sometimes skip or pop. It will happen randomly, but more then often. This started to happen on January 13th, 2011. It will do it with songs, videos, even online, flash games, etc. Everything was fine until yesterday. I haven't installed any new programs. I even did a system restore and still get the same thing. Defragmented my computer, and still did the same thing. It even does it with headphones.

Like I said my laptops audio ran fine until yesterday for some reason. What could be the cause of it, and what can I do to fix it?

Here are the specs of it

-AMD Athion 64 processor TF-20 (1.6 GHz)
-ATi Radeon HD3200 Graphics Up to 1408mb HyperMemory
-15.6" HD LCD
-3GB Memory
-160GB HDD
-Acer Nplify 802.11b/g/Draft-N

 

[buwish]

After the format, did you install the latest driver from Acer's support site?

 

[Nicodemus2]

After the format, did you install the latest driver from Acer's support site?

Not sure where to go for that.
The sound just stutters. It use to disappear after my computer was on for a while but it has gotten worse.

 

[buwish]

Head here:

http/support.acer.com/us/en/product/default.aspx