HELP my HDTV System has noise and sudden pause


Help, guys, I've been struggling with this for a long time, and still can't get it solved.

The music play back (and movie audio) will have random (not always) electrical noise in there, it's very short, normallly 0.1-0.2 second. Also, it will pause (no sound at all) for 0.1-0.2 second, and keep on playing. It only happends with my HDTV-PC, but doesn't come up with my DVD player.

I use to have this problem with my old system, though it was the anmp, then though it was the PC, maybe the sound card?

After replaced everything, I am still haveing this problem, now I really have no idea what's going on, can someone please help to think what's the reason? Thanks.

Current system:
PC: Shuttle PC SG33G5M, Intel Q4 6600 CUP, 4GB ram, 500GB SATA Hard Dirve,
Realtek High-Definition Sound Card,
Connection: Optical digital (Toslink) to receiver.
Receiver: Onkyo Sr805
Power: Belkin PF30 PureAV power Conditioner

Old System:
PC: Dell Inspion 510,4GB Ram, 250 GB hard drive,
Sound card: X-Fi Music sound card.
Connection: Co-Axale to receiver
Receiver: Onkyo Sr-505
jaguarcondor

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Thanks for the reply.

I have a latest qunt-core CPU, so it should be fine.

For the DTS recoginition, it only happens at the begining, which I am aware.

What I'm talking about is the crack and pop (really load) and pause during the moving play (video part is fine).

I digged around, and found that Onkyo receivers are fulty with DTS playback.

It's said that it could be solved by a firmware update, but it's not officially announced yet. So I am still trying to figure this out.
Just an update for everyone here, the firmware update DID the trick, and the sound bomb is gone.
Just to add a little bit more information.

I tested all possible senarios, and it seems like if I put Defaul audio output format as "2 Channels", and disable all the effects (e.g. DTS output, etc).all the problems are gone. If I put the DTS Live or DTS interactive back, the problem appears. Guess there is some special configurations need to be done.

However, if I use 2 Channels as default, I won't be able to do any 7.1 simulation, or expand any 2 channels to surround sound.

Anyone can offer any suggestions?

thanks.
Reading around found that Onkyo and Yamaha receivers can't play DTS MA correctly seems like.

Does anyone has similar problems?