I have a similar thing that happens in AH (the only game I play
) where I'll be flying along and suddenly the outside wind noise becomes super-amplified for like a half of a second, which can sometimes cause me to jump three feet out of my chair. It started happening after I changed to my current system. But the sound doesn't loop and there aren't any other ill-effects that I've seen so far. It's just weird.
AMD 2700 Athlon XP 2.0GHz
512DDR RAM
Asus A7N8X nForce chipset
GeF4 Ti4600 128MB
Onboard nForce sound (with acceleration turned down a notch)