Acer Aspire 5670 Frustrations

Ok, i was having some issues with the wifi on my Aspire 5670 and after troubleshooting for a couple days just got fed up and used ther ecovery disk to wipe everything, figured it was about time to do so anyways.

Well after updating and such I noticed that #1 any program i ran took forever to start up, the first time i ran it, but then afterwards would start up in a flash as long as i didnt reboot. and then i also noticed that if there was really any cpu load going on while there was sound playing the sound would become extremely garbbled or skip a bit, as long as nothing but windows media player ( or any other program i've tried for sound ) was running it would be.. okay, but still sometimes skip or pause a second, which is really annoying.

Also when extracting things with winrar or the such, the mouse becomes very sluggish till its finished. it's weird, it never ran like this before..

Any and all help would be appreciated, Thanks in advance.
Joe

 

update all the drivers, including the intel chpset drivers, ati and realtek (sound)

 

I've had no problems what so ever with my 5672 under xp home / xp pro / vista 32 bit / linux when it comes to the default programs or getting them to run properly.


Alex is on the right track, make sure what is running properly on the fresh install. Also look at what is in startup under msconfig.

--ssx--

 

Uninstall acer enet and uninstall qos

update the drivers for intel card


is this wpa network you connecting too?

 

Did what you guys suggested, updated bios, intel chipset, sound, video, all that and still same issues.

 

how much memory do you have (RAM) in your system?
and under XP was always working fine?

 

2gigs of RAM, yes always been running fine before i did the restore.. am about to grab an XP pro disk wipe the drive and install XP on its own without all of acer's crap.. this is getting really frustrating

 

Have you removed the acer enetwork mangment?

also uninstall qos what type wireless router
?

 

yes i removed thewhat is enet manager, it depends on if i'm at work or at home, at home its a lynksys at work i forget what type it is, but this happens with programs that dont connect to the net.. my inet connection has no speed issues or anything that i can tell.

 

basically i've the same configuration as you, we both have a 5670 and 2G ram.
i'm using Vista ultimate RTM, follow these steps and see if gets better:

1. right-click on Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Disk Drives
Right-click on your HD -> properties -> Policies
enable BOTH check-boxes for Performance and Advanced Performance

2. go in the CP -> Program and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off
disable Remote Differential Compression

3. go to http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
and download the latest drivers for vista (R1.63) for the sound card and install them.

4. when done reboot.

 

When i go there it doesnt give me thoes options, i am running WinXP home not Vista.