Sorry, i am not very good in english: what do you mean with: ..."The "reinstall" many times takes care of flakey problems." eh?? should i un/install them many times?! ... Oh, and the last question was not about which driver but which update from the "dell downloads".

thanks for the fast reply

One of the "stuttering" problem can be what is being loaded at startup and where the sound card is being loaded. 

Whatever "experimentation" apparently caused the problem.  The first thing to do is uninstall the sound card in the Windows Device Manager, then restart Windows and it will find the souind card and reinstall it.  The "reinstall" many times takes care of flakey problems. 

I can't answer which driver to download.

The Windows hardware detection and installation, is a common troubleshooting procedure for many hardware device problems. 

You only have to do this once, not "many times". 

The Windows hardware detection and installation, is a common troubleshooting procedure for many hardware device problems. 

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The Windows hardware detection and installation, is a common troubleshooting procedure for many hardware device problems. 

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g'day mate,

Unfortunately, your problem could be a direct result of downloading Audigy2 drivers from Creative. You may find that the information here and here, and then the subsequent links (and advice) from SI8300 (another poster within those threads, but on a separate matter) are far more relevant to your problem than anything else.

I believe SI8300 would be your best advisor. To the best of my knowledge, he is the first person to have drawn a direct relationship between the stuttering,... between the Audigy2 soundcard, and the two different sets of drivers. Although he was able to correct for his other problem (referenced here), the "stuttering" was a direct result of his tampering with Creative, and with Dell's OEM. It has been my understanding that SBI8300 abandoned his desire to correct the Windows Startup stuttering, but elected rather to correct for the "volume increases" problem.

I think that it is interesting to note that everyone involved in the stuttering problem has similar computer specs, and that the problem may be the combination of the Dimension 8300 with the Creative Audigy2 soundcard.

ThSQ

wow, really thanks friend, i really didn't know where i ran into, man  i have all of those strange behaviors, it really seems that Dell must release an update. Dear forum moderator, could you please see if this issue is a known issue to the Dell technicians, this would be very nice.

I have a second thread about drivers, strange coincidence isn't it. 

Thanks, now it is good to know that it is a common problem not any specific single mistake.But i am not sure if i should try the creative web drivers, someone in your linked threads sayd that it helped?!

sorry for the bad english i am in a hurry now.