More on stuttering?

[gibs]

Finally started to lay down a multi track on my pc after weeks of reading this site. Got Power tracks, recorded some guitar just to see how the thing worked, everything was fine, so I erased it and recorded a drum track (on track 1) using Alesis SR 16. So now I record the guitar track on track 2. When I play it back, the drum track does fine for about 2 minutes, then starts making Mamamamamamamaax Headroom stuttering sounds. I left click the mouse, the stuttering stops and about 10 seconds later, the drums start missing whole beats, as though a stylus was being removed and put back down on a vinyl. All the while, the guitar on track two was playing consistently with no problems....Remembering a post on stuttering (10-21, COMPUTER RECORDING AND SOUNDCARDS) I read everybody's ideas. The ctrl/alt/delete thing from emeric I can't figure out how to do. I know what ctrl/alt/delete does, but what should I apply it to? Emeric said background, which left me still in the dark.
I have 4.76 GB free.
I have an el cheapo Magicsound 16 Bit full duplex sound card, which replaces the generic on board one that came with the pc.
Before I replaced the original sound card, I had some stuttering on playback, but not on record (using cool edit)although, I didn't do a drum track, just re-do's of some old analogue.
I obviously need to get rid of all stuttering, but the loss of drum sounds really confuses too. I even tried using a drum pattern from my Yamaha keyboard, to see if maybe the Alesis was screwy, but to no avail.
I ran scandisk.
I defragged.
Help?
I hope I gave anyone who can help enough information...this is depressing, 'cause I was so jazzed to record all weekend....gibs

 

[Dragon]

If you have at least a 133 MHz Pentium and decent hard drives, you should be able to record/play back at least 4 tracks I would think.

The CTRL-ALT-DEL idea was to show you what background processes were running on your machine. Why don't you try this and post what it says for us, unless there's something really obvious that's sucking down all your spare CPU cycles, like a screen saver (especially like the SETI screen saver