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    Studio XPS 13 - programs crash when streaming video/audio off internet

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by HitokiriX, Nov 19, 2009.

  1. HitokiriX

    HitokiriX Notebook Consultant

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    I'm using a Studio XPS 13 with Windows 7 professional 64-bit. I just installed the OS clean along with drivers, and have recently seen that whenever I try to stream audio or video from the internet the program that is trying to stream the information crashes. I have tried going to websites like hulu, youtube, and last.fm with both IE and firefox; everytime I try to load a video the program becomes non-responsive and I have to force shut it down and restart the program. This also happens whenever I try to webcam using MSN, gTalk, skype, and oovoo. However, playing audio and video directly from my computer such as in iTunes works fine.

    the backup extension "FEBE" in firefox also causes crashes whenever it tries to create a backup file. I am assuming this is due to a related upload streaming issue, but I dont' know enough about the FEBE add-on to make any conclusions.

    the only reason I can think of behind these issues is that there is either a problem with a driver I have installed, or I am missing a critical driver that has something to do with streaming information from the internet. Has anyone else had this problem? What can I do to correct it? Hoping for something less than clean install! :)
     
    HitokiriX, Nov 19, 2009
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  2. igoramadas

    igoramadas Newbie

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    I have EXACTLY the same issue. And it was working before, just started yesterday and tried rebooting and changing display settings and nothing works.

    Do you have any external displays attached? Are you using Performance mode or Balanced/Power Saving (I think it could be something related to Hybrid SLI).

    Didn't test Spotify or streaming audio to see if it's a general or video only problem.
     
    igoramadas, Nov 20, 2009
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