Problem with sound card

I have an Asus F8sv running Vista32 and about 2 days ago the sound became staticy and everything from playing music to watching videos became slow and unbearable to watch or listen to.

I downloaded the newest driver codec from Realtek for the HD audio, R.219, and it fixed the problem for about a day, and then it started all over again. So then I reinstalled the driver on the Asus website for the F8sv, which is waaaayyy out dated, and that didn't really work at all.

I didn't DL anything new to make this happen and have had to constantly reinstall R.219 just to get my notebook to work properly, but why doesn't it stay working? I really don't understand why it seems the installation just doesn't continue to work. Any and all help is really appreciated. Thanks.

I bought new from ExcaliberPC about 1 year ago. Never had a problem with the sound or graphic cards or their drivers, but have had multiple blue screens of death and have done a reset to the default factory install once. That fixed it for a while but have gotten 1 or 2 since then especially after or during heavy gaming. I don't know if it's Asus I shouldn't be impressed with, or if it's just more reason to hate Vista.

But if you have any ideas on what I should do I'd appreciate it.

I just took AVG Free edition off and am now using Avast home 4.8, and I also reinstalled a registry fix program I had. After running the registry fix and scanning everything (no viruses but over 1000 different things found in the reg scan) everything seems to be working properly for now.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hopefully tomorrow it will still be that way.

Happening again and only after a few hours. I've been noticing the interference happens a lot while listening to music and surfing the web, and especially while playing a game online. This never happened before and I have no idea how to fix it.

I called Asus tech support. The first guy, who didn't really speak English very well and I had some trouble understanding him (even when he spelled out words phonetically), told me to flash the new bios and if the problem persisted call back. I flashed the newest bios and lo-an-behold the problem persisted. So I called back. It was Saturday night and I just got in from drinking so I decided to call at 3 a.m. It still took about 20-30 minutes to get someone, which isn't all that bad I guess, and he was American and very helpful. He had me go into the device manager and delete the Realtek HD Audio all together and then restarted the pc. Upon restart the new driver that I had already downloaded reinstalled automatically and everything was once again working properly.

I had explained to him...possibly with a slur...that this is what had happened before and after a few hours the problem has always returned. He then had me shutdown, unplug the notebook and take out the battery for 30 mins. He said that by doing this is sets the OS to its current settings. I figured it couldn't hurt so that's what I did.

Well, it's been about a whole day now and everything seems to be running smoothly so far. While listening to iTunes and surfing the web at the same time the music can get disrupted during page loadup. Usually when the page has a lot of java running on it. I don't remember this happening before, or if it is usual and I'm now just super sensitive to the subject. While playing a game online everything ran just as smoothly as before. Hopefully this is it for this problem and this can help someone else if it ever happens to them and they don't want to do a system restore just like I didn't.