All me music has turned in to ....... Soundin like its in a bog
Ya know like theys in a cave
I noticed that no one has addressed this particular problem. It's usually caused by jacking with the audio profile settings. In the case of Creative cards, use the EAX control panel to disable all reverb effects. The same goes for other brands of audio controllers. They all seem to have sound effects these days.
Murphy, does anyone else mess with your machine? Might want to check those sound settings. Otherwise, virus, spyware, malware, etc. Or maybe that cheapo onboard is dying. I know that the other day the wifes machine was making weird sounds, did a reboot and it all went away, had loaded the sound driver weird or something, was getting an echo.
On the router issue, my linksys didn't like the power around here, bumped a bit sometimes. I put it on the UPS with the computer and haven't had a bit of trouble since, might try that.