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phil
Hi,
I hope you can help. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, which has an AMD
Turion 64 Processor and 1GB Ram, running Windows Vista Home Basic. The
machine is about 1 month old and has all the latest patches appleid
via windows update.
When I playback DVDs using WinDVD that shipped with the laptop, the
playback is intermittantly frozen, whilst the sounds often continues.
Often, after a few seconds, the video catches up by playing the
missing video in a sort of high speed, fast-forward mode, until the
video and sound catch up. At times, even the sound freezes, and the PC
struggles to respond to mouse clicks like the processor is being
hammered. The interruptions occur about every 20-30 seconds.
I have also installed BBC iPlayer (had to do a little registry hack to
get it to play before you ask about Vista support, but it seems okay -
DVD skipped prior to iPlayer install), and this has exactly the same
problem.
I have tried to improve it by turning off wireless networking, Anti-
virus (AVG Free), Windows Defender etc, it still doesn't improve. I
don't have much other software installed.
I have also installed the latest Video Drivers for the ATI card that
is installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Phil
I hope you can help. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, which has an AMD
Turion 64 Processor and 1GB Ram, running Windows Vista Home Basic. The
machine is about 1 month old and has all the latest patches appleid
via windows update.
When I playback DVDs using WinDVD that shipped with the laptop, the
playback is intermittantly frozen, whilst the sounds often continues.
Often, after a few seconds, the video catches up by playing the
missing video in a sort of high speed, fast-forward mode, until the
video and sound catch up. At times, even the sound freezes, and the PC
struggles to respond to mouse clicks like the processor is being
hammered. The interruptions occur about every 20-30 seconds.
I have also installed BBC iPlayer (had to do a little registry hack to
get it to play before you ask about Vista support, but it seems okay -
DVD skipped prior to iPlayer install), and this has exactly the same
problem.
I have tried to improve it by turning off wireless networking, Anti-
virus (AVG Free), Windows Defender etc, it still doesn't improve. I
don't have much other software installed.
I have also installed the latest Video Drivers for the ATI card that
is installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Phil