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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2184233" data-attributes="member: 3649">The other night I was getting ready to log off from World of Warcraft when all of a sudden the game lags and locks for a bit, and my sound starts repeating the last little chunk of sound it got from the game. This happens a couple more times before I can log off. OK, it was near patch time and I was in a city. Lag happens.  Then I go back into the game and the lag is gone but the snapcracklepop on the speakers is really noticeable. I leave, and reboot. Then I notice my machine is really, really slow to boot up. To the point where I don't think it even is. It's been that way ever since. Now the sounds crackles, though not nearly as badly, when Windows plays the opening music, or when I play an audio file. Nothing shows up in event viewer. Direct X diagnostics check out fine. I tried dropping the audio acceleration but that didn't help. I have the latest drivers. I have an updated Norton's and Microsofts antispyware; both report I'm clean. I used MSCONFIG to look at my startup programs and I don't see anything in there I recognize as a bad thing. My hard drive is defragged. The attachment shows my startup programs.  Any ideas on the sudden slow bootup? What could possible cause that? I have:  Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)System Manufacturer: INTEL_System Model: D865GBF_Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale-G i865GBIOS: BIOS Date: 03/07/05 16:05:05 Ver: 08.00.10Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs)Memory: 1022MB RAMPage File: 247MB used, 4772MB availableDirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Sound Card: SB Audigy 2 ZS Audio [B800]</blockquote>

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