M17x Stutter

[Rockwell B1]

My sound only stutters when I'm changing the volume in the volume mixer.... but not in iTunes or any games. It's not like everyone elses problems where the sound stutters on a regular basis.
Does anyone else have this issue?

Mine is sort of like what you are experiencing. I've never had any stutters during games or movies, only when I'm listening to music in Zune since I'm normally doing other things as well. And it is when I am doing those other things that seem to make it stutter, if I just let it be it doesn't seem to stutter. Though I do have VERY bad dps latency in both Vista and 7, so I'm sure that is the main cause of mine. And XP is not an option for me so I can't see if that helps any.

Are you using the touch strip to adjust your music or the actual mixer? I ask because I have this issue where if I eject a disc with the touch strip my whole system stutters, not just my audio like normal. I had to download a yahoo widget to handle ejecting my discs or go into Computer and right-click eject all the time.

[dondadah88]

i'm having stutters when playing music. and my mouse also jumps when it stutters. it's very annoying. it happens every 20-40 secs. and since music has to be perfect to me to listen to, i have to load them to my phone and then play it.

[Lord_Zath]

Agreed. My wife keeps saying she doesn't notice the stutter, but I sure as hell do. Annoying as _____!

[dondadah88]

yeah but the thing is we hhave dual cores.

I need more hdd space and time to test it out.

the good news is that I am taking some time off work soon so I can relax(more time with all powerful. )

[dondadah88]

one thing I do notice is the hdd light blinks for no reason. On win 7 more then vista. And when it does, the stuttering starts going crazy. Please everyone check your hdd light when you start to stutter.

it's weird. I disabled everything thhat requires the hdd light to blink so I don't know why it does it.

need more testing.

[BatBoy]

one thing I do notice is the hdd light blinks for no reason. On win 7 more then vista. And when it does, the stuttering starts going crazy. Please everyone check your hdd light when you start to stutter.

it's weird. I disabled everything thhat requires the hdd light to blink so I don't know why it does it.

need more testing.

Did you disable the Windows Search service? This is what indexes your drive. On a recent OS install, its going to produce quite a bit of drive activity.

Suggest disabling it as its pointless unless you frequently misplace docs, emails, etc on your drive and have to use the CTRL-F keys.

Services.msc ----> Windows Search ----> Stop Service ----> Disabled option in pulldown.

[Aristotelhs2060]

My sound only stutters when I'm changing the volume in the volume mixer.... but not in iTunes or any games. It's not like everyone elses problems where the sound stutters on a regular basis.
Does anyone else have this issue?

thats true for me as well. the sound stutters when i am doing certain things or it does it by itself without reason but after long time periods. generally you have to be patient and careful to notice.

[dondadah88]

Did you disable the Windows Search service? This is what indexes your drive. On a recent OS install, its going to produce quite a bit of drive activity.

Suggest disabling it as its pointless unless you frequently misplace docs, emails, etc on your drive and have to use the CTRL-F keys.

Services.msc ----> Windows Search ----> Stop Service ----> Disabled option in pulldown.

i just did it. for some reason i missed that one in my win7 installation but my vista one it is disabled.

i did however right click the hdd and uncheck indexing but i'll watch how the sound quality is today and tomorrow and see what happens.

[Draekz]

The stuttering problem should be obvious for everyone that owns this laptop, I've seen it on 3 different ones now all the same.

Turning off PowerMizer stops the stutters, but idles at 55c instead of 40c.

Apparently long term this is bad.

Draekz

[dondadah88]

it's still happening to me but I need more hdd space before I go testing crazy. I don't have the free space to do what I would like to.