ACPI setting

[George]

Playback offset may be fine for minor changes but the best method if the audio is out of sync is to change the hardware accelleration setting. It's a more permanent fix(if that's the problem)

Click START

Click RUN

Type DXDIAG, O.K

At the top of the page, click on SOUND 1

About the middle of the page there's a HARDWARE ACCELLERATION slider.

Move it two clicks to the left, and exit.

No harm done if it doesn't solve the problem, you can easily put it back.

[alaskatazdvl]

OK, here goes. Yes I changed the virutal memory settings. As far as the "Rollback" option on the driver it is not available. I already had tried to do that. Here is the latest on my system information.

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name TOLSONA-PC
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 1520
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz, 1462 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A09, 7/11/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name Tolsona-PC\christines
Time Zone Alaskan Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.75 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.41 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.61 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.37 GB
Page File Space 2.98 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

I have downloaded the latest update and am having the skipping issue. I will try the acceleration suggestion tomorrow. I dont' have my external hard drive with me at the moment. Thanks again for all the suggestions. I really just want to get this fixed.

Christine

[marklwood]

After you try the hardware acceleration, if that doesn't do the trick, try going here http://www.blackviper.com/ and start trimming your system down. I would suggest going with the "Tweaked" list.

Also you could post your task manager list of running processes and we can see if we can help you trim that down too. Hit alt+ctrl+del and select Start Task Manager to see the list of running processes.

[alaskatazdvl]

Ok I went into the DirectX tool and there is no adjustments available under Sound 1. Secondly, I went through the Blackviper's list of tweaks. I did most of them but did not touch the services because I am afraid that if something else screws up I won't know where to fix it. I tried to copy my task manager but there is not a way to do that. I really need to know how to reverse the computer driver setting back to original. If I get out the original discs and reload drivers from there would that do it? thanks.

[ddouglass]

That may or may not work. I am not sure that those drivers will be on the disk though.