Dell
My WMP takes a good 30 seconds to play a song and also most of them skip. I had a Dell XPS with Widows XP before, and WMP was perfect. I recently bought another XPS with Vista and it's on this computer that I have the problems.
Please help!!!
Skipping of tracks on Dell machines is common if they have the Sigmatel audio chipset (sound card) installed, because Dell ship them with defective audio driver software.
- Right-click on the Speaker icon in the system tray,
- select Playback Devices,
- right-click Speakers in that new dialog,
- go to Properties, then go to
- Enhancements - choose "Disable All Enhancements"
and you should be fixed up.
Source: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-music-video/737568.htm
Another option is to remove all third party drivers and use Vista core audio drivers only
© Vincent Kars 2008