Messed up sound on M4400...keeps skipping

hi guys, just got my precision today, installed 64 bit vista and all the drivers on it....

but when i play music (i use wmp) it keeps skipping....i tried both headphones and internal speakers. its really bugging me...

i tried reinstalling the audio drivers twice, it dint make a difference....please help

 

Try uninstalling the audio drivers. They aren't necessary in Vista, the default drivers work fine.

Greg

 

its not working...its still skipping....is this a hardware issue?

 

Thats strange...sound is workin fine here. No preinstall from Dell?

 

You need to install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
Sometimes a clean install, cleaner than clean will cause new problems

 

Good luck with this one.

You can TRY disabling audio enhancements in the sound properties, but last gen Dells (Vostro/Inspiron/XPS) all had this problem. Dell simply installs a crappy sound chip with an even crappier driver.

My best solution for you is to use Ubuntu Never had sound problems there!

 

thanks man, it worked. what does this driver do? i was wondering why my computer was so slow lol....

dont know how i missed this when reinstalling all the drivers...i installed all of them on the list except this one.

 

I had the same problem after a vista clean install but I knew that it worked with the original installation. The Matrix Storage Manager installs a tool that is called Intel application accelerator and contains a driver, I don't know what it exactly does, but without it the harddisk doesn't work well.

 

the darn resource cd is so confusing...it has items of the same name, but with different revisions...so at first i only installed the ones with the higher revision number, only to realise that one was a driver, one was the app.....