<human>: My computer is "skipping," in the sense that when I have video or music playing, it gets stuck. But it doesn't stop playing, it just makes annoying jittering noises on whatever slice of audio it happens to get stuck upon. The whole screen freezes up with it as well, so that the mouse will not come unstuck until the audio catches again. It happens even when nothing is playing (the mouse just freezes) but it is superbly annoying and noticeable whenever sound is coming out. It has nothing to do with how many programs I am running, memory usage, stuff like that. And to top it all off, many times this will occur when I am not even attempting anything - I will be watching a video, not touching the mouse at all, and randomly in the middle it will start to skip. I cannot watch anything longer than ten minutes without this happening.

I'm running vista, which yea, i know it sucks, whatever... But this is the only real problem it's giving me. If it's even vista (which I think it is). I've tried running this problem through google and stuff to see what I could find in the way of tech support, but all of it went over my head. I know my way around a computer but not like many of you do.

here's the system info:
vista home premium, 32 bit
HP compaq 6830s
intel core 2 duo
4 gigs of RAM (and it skips like this? WTFF)

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: my computer is driving me nuts help me fix it, if not for me then for the machine because if I don't get help soon, I WILL KILL IT DEAD.