Problems

[Jaymo]

Hi,

I have an acer aspire 3660 with a few minor (but major to me) problems. Right, when i go to login or play music it struggles to play a song any type of sound. It tends to play them but incredibly reduce the speed of the song so it slows down to a very anoying pace. Anyone know how i would fix this?

I have been to the acer website and re-installed the audio drivers and this done nothing. I have also checked the device manager for any conflicts and all my audio drivers are working properly.

 

[Computer Head]

How much crap do you have running in the background? Check your processes, defrag, disk cleanup, and also check antivirus and antispyware scans for good faith.

 

[Jaymo]

Hardly any processes are running in the background.

already scanned for viruses, spyware, malware, adware etc come up clean. I've also done a system restore to near enough beginning of laptops life. I have also run disk cleanup and defragged the hdd.

I'm seriously starting to run out of ideas.

 

[Computer Head]

Does anything else run slow on the computer?

 

[Jaymo]

only sometimes, for example: once the computer has just started up everything seems to open very slowly.

I opened up the bottom and removed the ram and then placed it back it (fearing it could have become loose) and everything seems to be running a little quicker.

But the sound still screws up if im playing a song and i then open IE or something it will cause it to go slow. Even running a video on youtube the sound with seem to stutter for a short while before sorting itself out.

Could it be down to a possible memory leak or something?

 

[Computer Head]

It's possible, what are your specs?

 

[Atomic Rooster]

My question was going to be how much RAM do you have in the thing?

 

[Jaymo]

512mb ram
Intel Celeron M 420 @ 1.60Ghz
64mb ati radeon gfx (integrated)
xp media edition 2005
80gb hdd

 

[Atomic Rooster]

Hmm. . .
That's looks OK. What player are you using to play your songs with? Do you have anything like Rhapsody or iTunes installed?

 

[Cabbs]

Try using more than one music program and see if anything different happens.