John32118

I had that problem on my new xp from dell. It occured when i played an mp3 and had nothing to do with web surfing.

It turns out that the computer was set to run in PIO mode rather than DMA which meant that I was losing about 99% of my processing power.

I went to device manager and reset the proper controls from pio to dam and the problem was solved.

I post this in case it helps somebody with a similar xp problem.

I have no idea if this is relevant to vista.