Media Center BROKEN in Vista Ultimate

I have a new Dell M90 laptop with 2meg Mem and a 2meg boost drive and ever
since I got this thing VISTA Ultimate Media Center has worked real bad

1. Audio is below par of other players I have.
2. Music skips
3. Music overlaps - Even when you close or try to close music it keeps
playing
4. Video skips.

I've turned off all enhancements, turned off the features that are supposed
to work in VISTA like the desktop tools and gadgets (they don't work too)
and my music and video performance in VISTA ultimate is just plain bad.

If someone could look at my setup and offer some advice that would be great.
I'm very frustrated after all the money I spent and perhaps there is an
expert here. Thanks

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name TONY-LAPTOP
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Precision M90
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2
Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A07, 7/31/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.20500"
User Name Tony-Laptop\Tony
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,045.53 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.06 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.21 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.06 GB
Page File Space 2.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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0x0000002C-0x0000002D Programmable interrupt controller OK
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0x0000003C-0x0000003D Programmable interrupt controller OK
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Keyboard OK
0x00000061-0x00000061 System speaker OK
0x00000062-0x00000062 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2
Keyboard OK
0x00000063-0x00000063 System speaker OK
0x00000064-0x00000064 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2
Keyboard OK
0x00000065-0x00000065 System speaker OK
0x00000066-0x00000066 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2
Keyboard OK
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27DA OK
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Controller - 27CB OK
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c:\windows\system32\imaadp32.acm Microsoft
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c:\windows\system32\l3codeca.acm Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen
IIS Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3
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c:\windows\system32\msg711.acm Microsoft
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c:\windows\system32\msgsm32.acm Microsoft
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c:\windows\system32\sirenacm.dll Microsoft Corp. Messenger Audio
Codec OK C:\Windows\system32\SIRENACM.DLL 8.1.178.0 49.86 KB (51,056
bytes) 1/19/2007 11:53 AM

c:\windows\system32\3ivxvf~1.dll 3ivx.com 3ivx D4
4.5.1 OK C:\Windows\system32\3IVXVFWCODEC.DLL 4.5.1.30 280.00 KB (286,720
bytes) 1/27/2004 7:48 AM
c:\windows\system32\divx.dll DivX, Inc. DivX 6.6.1
Codec OK C:\Windows\system32\DIVX.DLL 6.6.1.4 723.09 KB (740,442
bytes) 5/31/2007 2:44 AM
c:\windows\system32\iccvid.dll Radius
Inc. OK C:\Windows\system32\ICCVID.DLL 1.10.0.12 80.00 KB (81,920
bytes) 11/2/2006 8:32 AM
c:\windows\system32\iyuv_32.dll Microsoft
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c:\windows\system32\msrle32.dll Microsoft
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(12,800 bytes) 8/30/2007 12:37 AM
c:\windows\system32\msvidc32.dll Microsoft
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c:\windows\system32\msyuv.dll Microsoft
Corporation OK C:\Windows\system32\MSYUV.DLL 6.0.6000.16386 22.00 KB
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c:\windows\system32\tsbyuv.dll Microsoft
Corporation OK C:\Windows\system32\TSBYUV.DLL 6.0.6000.16386 11.50 KB
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Name SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC
Manufacturer SigmaTel
Status OK
PNP Device
ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7690&SUBSYS_102801CF&REV_1022\4&17C8FC6C&0&0001
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\stwrt.sys (6.10.5343.1, 632.50 KB
(647,680 bytes), 4/6/2007 8:09 PM)

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_029A&SUBSYS_019B1028&REV_A1\4&18B336D&0&0008
Adapter Type Quadro FX 2500M, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version 7.15.10.9746
INF File oem46.inf (nv_G71 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1680 x 1050 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
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IRQ Channel IRQ 16
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I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (7.15.10.9746, 4.25 MB
(4,456,416 bytes), 4/7/2007 3:48 AM)


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<peter@stjohns.com> wrote
> I've turned off all enhancements, turned off the features that are
> supposed
> to work in VISTA like the desktop tools and gadgets (they don't work too)
> and my music and video performance in VISTA ultimate is just plain bad.

Wow, lots of detail. That's great, but I have a question. Based on what you
are saying here, I read this as your gadgets don't work either? In addition
you are saying music and video within the vista desktop is bad as well?

What I'm trying to say is if your performance is bad only in the Media
Centre, you are in the right place. If you are also having problem outside
of Media Centre, then you should probably try the windows vista group as you
have a better chance to find more knowledgeable help there.

The only other thing I would suggest is remove the "boost drive", whatever
that is. If its slower memory than your onboard RAM, it could be messing up
the system performance as it swap files back and forth.

Brian

The drive is part of VISTA and it speeds things up. As for Areo it seems
that everyone is having trouble with it so I tuned it off too but the issues
in my original post hold true.

Any help with the WMC issues would be of great help....

Unless everyone is waiting for Microsoft to come out with a fix? ;)

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:42:03 GMT, peter@stjohns.com wrote:

>I have a new Dell M90 laptop with 2meg Mem and a 2meg boost drive and ever
>since I got this thing VISTA Ultimate Media Center has worked real bad
>
>1. Audio is below par of other players I have.
>2. Music skips
>3. Music overlaps - Even when you close or try to close music it keeps
>playing
>4. Video skips.
>
>I've turned off all enhancements, turned off the features that are supposed
>to work in VISTA like the desktop tools and gadgets (they don't work too)
>and my music and video performance in VISTA ultimate is just plain bad.
>
>If someone could look at my setup and offer some advice that would be great.
> I'm very frustrated after all the money I spent and perhaps there is an
>expert here. Thanks

If it's brand new your remedy is to get Dell to fix it or refund your money.
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP