Vista x64 unusable on decent rig

Nope, I'm starting to think its something to do with overlays etc. All the bits appear to work fine, video just works for a bit then stuters, pauses and stops in VLC, media center, and media player. Anyone know about overlays and settings etc?

Its even doing it in ATI catalist center graphics option - video stutters on test!
 
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ok I'm running a vista 64 ultimate rig using an inbuilt nvidia 6150 card (christ its a slow card for games and it takes ram from the system etc) but it can manage everything in vista smooth enough. I have admittedly got 4gig of ram and an x2 4200+ though.

Media centre is just a tad sluggish in my view but I think its more to with the software than my system.

I'd say take a look at your memory usage and possibly any additionally installed codecs - in my experience some codecs can play silly buggers in wmp11.
 
Tried it with no codecs on a clean install and it does the same, system idle process the the most cpu as per normal. Have noticed the Hdd seems to be active a lot when it pauses on the video - could that be it. Its a standard pata drive?

In fact now that I listen closely, the Hdd seems very active all the time! How do I stop this or minimise this as this may be what is killing all video!
 
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Defrag tool - cant find anything except scheduled defrag so guess its not that, unless its somewhere else, buffer settings in wmp are on auto, tried 5 secs and no change. Any other ideas - think I may end up getting a SATA Hdd!

Is there something in the BIOS i should change - never had this problem before and think it may be the Mobo settings - its an ASUS A8r32 MVP - deluxe
 
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I just dont understand how it can play it fine for a while and then get all the jumps and pauses, and how random it is - sometimes 10 secs, sometimes 3 mins - what is going on????
 
Anyone got any other ideas with this - am thinking I may have to revert to windows XP MCE, but I would rather not! I suppose I could pop in an NVIDIA card but I really wanted to use the ATI for the HDMI out (my TV will only PIP with HDMI and Scart, not vga!)

Tested as much as possible -
prime 95 to test CPU
3dmark06 for GPU
Memtest for RAM

All components seem ok, just video playback is rubbish!
 
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well, sorted it - seems it was a BIOS problem, did latest update and its now played for 30 mins no problems. Nothing anywhere on numerous websites said it may need an update - I think most assumed you had the latest! D'oh, learnt a lesson there then!
 
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