Disc Drive Problem!!

The Thank You: :drool

First off id like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone and everything that has to do with this site. i just discovered MajorGeeks a few days ago. I had a lot of software problems, but they are all solved! thanks to all the forum threads and free wear hosted by MajorGeeks.com.


THE PROBLEM: :cry

Whenever i play a DVD or CD on my laptop drive im getting a skippy sound, as if my comp was lagging over the volume. the graphics on dvd are fine, but the sound is distorted and unusable. This only happens when i play a disc (audio cd or dvd) otherwise my sound is absolutely fine, games and all. Ive tried playing cds with itunes and ive played DVD with power dvd, media center, and dells media direct, all give the same result of a skipping audio. Funny thing is, when i download audio from a CD, this downloaded audio will contain no skipping in the sound at all. But while playing this same CD during this same download process, i will get a lag or skipping in the audio. This sound distortion only comes when my cd drive is spinning a disc, while playing audio from that disc. Im on a Dell inspiron e1505 with windows xp media center edition.

p.s: i do not posses geek power even close to anyone else's on these forums. lets just say im a wannabe, so if you could please make the answers simple enough for a wannabe that would be great.

help, anyone?


*edit*: sorry to anyone who already read this post in hardware section. ive reposted it here because i wasn't getting any response at all, and, ive noticed more people tend to view this section of the forum over the hardware section.