everything played through windows media player is spead up just enough to be annoying and just wrong. cd's as well as everything on the internet. it's not as bad as the chipmunks, but it makes men sound like women. i've deleted media player and re-installed it without any luck. please help

If you're running Media Player 11, there's an adjustment control for this. It might be there in earlier version too. Go to View > Enhancements > Play Speed Settings.

Let us know if that helps

thanks or the attenetion to this matter DJ. i made an error though. a CD playes fine, but if i play any videos or music from an online source it speads up. like on helium. this is windows 2000 and media player 9. windows 2000 won't take 11 and i'd consider real player or 10, but for the CD's playing fine i'm not sure it would matter. i did not have *enhancements* in the *view*either. or anything that looked similiar

There is setting in start Run... dxdiag | Sound

Hardware Sound Acceleration Level

dxdiag did not work, thanks though. direct x had a *more help* section that suggested that removing the sound card and placing it in another slot might work. i'm not going to try it if i'm wasting my time or if someone knows a better solution. what do you people think?

Do you mean that DXDIAG wouldn't run or that it did run and you changed the Hardware Sound Acceleration Level setting but it made no difference?

yes, it ran and i did adjust the *accelerating* setting, once to the low setting and then all the way off. either way was the same as before. no change at all.

Do you have a PCI Sound Card?

If so is there any difference if you plug into the motherboard audio ports?