Sound Problems after boot: On a Dell laptop Inspiron 8600.

After rebooting I get this error message about the sound card
can someone tell me, What gives?

Vendor: Intel corp
Model: 82801DB AC'97 audio controller
Module: i810_audio


Error Message: 

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
can't set requested samplingrate (requested rate 44100, got rate 3683)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
can't set requested samplingrate (requested rate 44100, got rate 3683)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Jim Tate