Finally - this thing causes all the problems (M6400)

Hi guys,

i'm just installing a clean version of vista x64.

I guess I now know what causes all that hickup annoying sound problem. ;-)

All went fine till that thingy called "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" got installed. After every step of installing the dell drivers I checked the system. Nothing fancy. Startup sound was fine, no mouse lagging, process "system" was max. about 2% in taskmanager.
As soon "the matrix" was installed, all went to already known behaviour, like it was with the preinstalled vista. Everytime after startup the process "system" was demanding till up to 15% of cpu - combined with sound problems and mouse lagging. After about half an hour the process went down to 0-2% and everything was fine again.

So here's the question. For what exactly do I need that Intel Matrix Storage Manager? Can I just ignore installing it and live without that problem?


Please give me a hint...

 

Hah, now it works like it should.

I loaded the latest Matrix Manager directly from Intel. Works like a charm. Now I can use the "special functions" - on the other hand soundcard and mouse work without any problems. ;-)

 

Congrats on good detective work. I'll remember this post if I run into the same problem.

 

Can you post the link to the version you downlaoded? Thanks!

 

Here we go:

http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/treiber/mainboards/intel/intel_matrix_storage_manager/


P.S well it's not directly from intel, but it's not that "old" version you can load from dell

 

Woops, that one says "file cannot be found"...

 

Woops, sorry. I had the exact problem so I loaded it from there:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101&lang=deu

much luck

 

Much better! Thanks!

 

@Pirx:
So, do you have any problems with your covet? If so, could you solve them after installing the latest matrix manager?

 

This is strange. I seem to remember reading that the Intel Matrix Manager from Dell FIXED the sound issues.

Maybe I will try uninstalling and try out the one on Intel site.

Are you using the Default Vista HD audio driver or IDT?