Sound skipping problem; Asus A8V-X w/ VIA VT8251/8237A on-board HDA (sound)

[wa4geg at netscape.net]

Help, I've googled my fingers off up to the elbow and no luck:o)
Sound works but skips or has gaps at about 1 second intervals.
I'm running a fresh install of FreeBSD 7.0 Release (AMD64.)

/boot/loader.conf contains:

snd_hda_load="YES"


Other info:

Main board = Asus A8V-X AMD64 w/ on-board sound: VIA VT8251/8237A
High Definition Audio Controller

$ cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2007061600/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <VIA VT8251/8237A High Definition Audio Controller>
at memory 0xff5fc000 irq 17 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050]
[MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)

Any help?

Thanks, Byron C