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    Audio stutter : Latency issue or bad wireless driver ?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by gemadouble, Dec 22, 2007.

  1. gemadouble

    gemadouble Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello, I've had this problem since I reinstalled windows, the audio stutters every time but if I disable the wireless, it works fine. The wireless provided at the Acer website didn't work, I have to find a driver from driverguide that wasn't for my laptop but it works. I googled and found out it has something to do with the PCI Latency. I play around with the latency but it still stutters but not as much. I hope there isn't anything wrong with my latency.

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    Emailed Acer, they didn't help much, I'm kinda disappointed as the audio stutter will affect me tremendously as I do alot of audio mastering and video editing. I hope you guys could help me on this one, I've been so stressful trying to fixing this. Tried everything, reinstalling in different order. Nothing helped.

    Laptop : Acer Aspire 4710Z

    Thanks!
     
  2. KrieGLoCK

    KrieGLoCK Notebook Evangelist

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    The latency being connection?
     
  3. gemadouble

    gemadouble Notebook Enthusiast

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    I didn't see any connection latency in PCI Latency Tool, I guess the PCI Bridge is connected to both audio and wireless. No individual settings.

    Acer replied, they asked me to come down to their HQ and they can't help me throught the internet as I have invalid serial number.
     
  4. Silvr6

    Silvr6 Notebook Evangelist

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    Try going into the

    "Device manager"

    Then look for the "primary" and "secondary" ide controllers.

    Once you open those up click on the "adavanced settings" tab

    Make sure that they are in DMA mode, if they are in PIO mode change them to DMA and reboot your computer.

    I"ve seen the problem you've described, and this fix did the trick and solved the audio problems.
     
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    lokster Notebook Deity

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    if your on wifi and vista and wmp 11 listening to music AND youve detected other media laptops that you can share with, the music will stutter a bit every now and then, make sure to turn the sharing off, thats the simplest answer i can think of coz it happened to me too
     
  6. gemadouble

    gemadouble Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm on XP by the way.

    Silvr6, the laptop is already in DMA mode. I played around with the latency abit but it still stutter alot. Acer doesn't want to help me on this, I'm really out of idea this time.