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OK here's this nice new 1400mz athlon system w/60 gig, and onboard video/sound ..problem is even after many clean loads of win me, the sound stutters on windows media player and freezes the system. tried installing a standard pci sound card, same problem? any suggestions on what to test next..this is really frustrating!

Try a real OS... go back to 98se or go to win2k/XP. winME is a POS

Yeah, Kak is right you should probably dump the ME and go for Win2k or 98se.

my computer did that on win xp and win98se what happen was defective video card it was nvidia i got that and torched it since it did not work it would freeze sound and stutter while playing real player or windows media player or playing video games but when on regular desktop sound worked.

Actually, IMHO the OS probably isn't the problem and shouldn't matter in itself. I doubt it'll be fixed by reformatting and installing another OS w/o first figuring out what's really going on. I have ME on my new laptop and it's doing fine as is, no problems.
There can be MANY causes for what's described as I've been there too over the years on several different PCs, different Windows OSs.
If it's bootable into Windows, go into device manager and be sure that there's no driver related problems, like yellow !s associated with any device.
I'd also double check all your bios settings making sure that nothing's OCd or set at anything over default specs. Hopefully you have a manual that describes the specs if changed from default in any way.
If still nothing, remove (delete) all un-necessary devices from the device manger such as cd-rom (or DVD), burner, modem, NIC, soundcard but NOT video card (need it) and see if it's then stable. If so, add each device with drivers one at a time. Sometimes too, some devices are very fussy about which PCI slot they're in on some mobos. For example, on my main PC, the SB Live card has given me many a headache (caused problems) because it didn't work correctly in some PCI slots and required playing card "swap-around" until I found a slot that wasn't problematic.
That also reminds me of yet another SB Live related problem with my mobo (Abit KT7-Raid), at a site specifically about that mobo, I found specific known issues mentioned with the SB Live and a altered bios setting needed to cure a problem with it too. If there's any website info specifically about your mobo, I'd highly advise looking into researching there too because there may be tips on known device stabilty problems and listed cures as to how to fix them.