Hel-80 acting wierd

I'm beginning to feel like I've had nothing but problems out windows since I got this laptop.

Well, I booted into windows today because I wanted to play some games. Something is really wrong with my sound. It keeps skipping and popping no matter what the source. I have tried different mp3's and media players. It does it in games. It does it to the @#$% startup sound. A sound that should be a booooop or something when windows starts up ends up being a boozzzzzaaatttt*pop*ooooooooo*pop* . It was working fine yesterday.The only thing that I have changed is I installed that last windows update. I feel like I'm getting some mouse lag even when I'm just on the desktop too. I'll uninstall the update and see what happens.

EDIT: well I uninstalled the update and nothing changed. I also noticed that my startup times are like 4X longer than they should be. Its like someone replaced my core 2 duo with a 486

 

I think the best way to handle this issue is to give your reseller's support team a call. They can probably pinpoint the problem a lot faster than the forum will.

 

Call your vendor for help. This sort of problem usually occurs when you have either conflicting hardware, or missing hardware level interfaces, and your system is falling back to software compatible mode... (Lack of hardware acceleration)

Have you tried running Ad-Aware? Tried running the free virus scanner at bitdefender.com? Tried disabling any virus scanning software you have?

All you people having problems makes me want to turn my web server back on and start repairing systems via remote connections again =P

 

Its all fixed now. I haven't the slightest what was wrong with it. A call to Powernotebooks got it all sorted out. We ended up system restoring to yesteday and its fixed. I have a feeling that it was that last windows update doing something.

EDIT: Yea I had scanned it with pretty much everything under the moon E.G. Spybot, AVG etc. I spend so much time maintaining this windows install and all I use it for is games.

 

Great News! Happen to have the update name / number?

Good Job PowerNoteBooks!

 

I'm glad to hear it's better now. When you said you'd uninstalled the update in your first post, I thought you meant you did a system restore. Handy little tool it is if something goes screwy and you don't know why.

But Powernotebooks is there to help, so don't be shy when you have questions. They're very good about that.