My daughter purchased a Compaq Presario V242NR laptop. Recently, it has stopped playing CD's correctly. They all stutter and skip as though the disk is bad. This is true for commercially produced disks and disks that we have burned ourself (on other computers).

She uses it to play disks all the time, so I am at a bit of a loss as to where to look for this problem.

The only thing we changed this weekend was to re-configure her wireless connection so that she could share my wireless access while she is home this weekend.

I haven't had this problem in so long, I honestly don't remember where I should start looking for a solution.

The unit seems to read audio disks fine (we copied the CD contents onto the HD and the files play find from there) - so, I'm guessing that some driver or TSR might be interfering - but what to look for?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Del