Hi,
Thanks for the comment rthompson, but the vista is the laptop's original os.
Carlos Medrano, tried that but to with no joy. I'm using an external usb soundcard so speakers shouldn't be a problem.
It seems like ram but I'm sure there are people out there running vista on 1gb and able to watch videos & movies online.
If there is a video playing, such as youtube, It cackles and stutters but when i scroll down or minimise the page the sound is fine. Some sort of video card/ram problem?
THanks again