F buttions and Media lags? plz help!

SweepeRSweepeR
edited January 2008 in Science & Tech
ok guys, when i play a video my computer seems to stutter evrey other few seconds. This also happens when I play music. For instance...it'll play 10 seconds, then on the next second itll stutter and play again a sec later.

Also, my keyboards F button functions seem to not work out of no where. can someone plz help me?

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  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Please tell us about your computer:

    motherboard
    CPU
    memory
    video card

    If you don't know, give the brand and model.

    Also, you didn't state whether this problem is just recent, or if it's been present since you first received the computer.

    Sorry, there's too little information given to go on.
  • SweepeRSweepeR
    edited January 2008
    Leonardo wrote:
    Please tell us about your computer:

    motherboard
    CPU
    memory
    video card

    If you don't know, give the brand and model.

    Also, you didn't state whether this problem is just recent, or if it's been present since you first received the computer.

    Sorry, there's too little information given to go on.

    sorry bout that no problem. actually Ive had this computer for a long time maybe 3-5 yrs. The problems actually just occured the past week or so while i was getting my computer fixed due to virus/maleware. As for the items u requested i will have that hopefully within the next 15 min
  • SweepeRSweepeR
    edited January 2008
    soyo p4i865pe plus, pent 4 2.66Ghz 800 FSB hyper threading, geforce fx5600, 1Gb of memory
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Have you run any antispyware or antivirus scans?
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Also, are you running an anti-spyware program. If so, which one?
  • SweepeRSweepeR
    edited January 2008
    yea i ran all the stuff...i just got finished with the anit virus male ware issue about 2 hrs ago. Someone on this forum was helping me out and they said my system appears to be completely clean so he directed me ot this part of the forum for help regarding the issues stated.

    I have Kaspersky 7.0 Int. Security and Spy Sweeper.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2008
    Make sure that indexing is turned off (Open up Windows Explorer> right click on your drive>left click properties>remove the checkmark in the indexing box). Also defrag your harddrive.

    Next are all your codecs up to date, could be they are old or possibly broken. I'd suggest getting K Lite mega Codec Pack. Those steps will ensure that things are where they should be.
  • SweepeRSweepeR
    edited January 2008
    i defragged all 4 of my HD's about a month ago. waht does that index one do?
  • SweepeRSweepeR
    edited January 2008
    thats a media player and i d/led it and it still has the problem jsut not as bad. Even wehn im on ESPN.com watchign the videos on that the stuttering occurs.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Indexing is - to use simple terminology - a Windows file cataloging system. With indexing turned turned on, Windows keeps track of all the files on a hard drive. This can be beneficial as the computer may have less lag time as Windows searches for particular files that you might call up, since the files are 'indexed' and the operating system instantly (supposedly) knows their hard drive location. If hard drives are loaded down with thousands of files, Indexing can though, slow things down. Every time you make a file change, be it renaming or changing time stamps or so forth, Windows performs a fresh cataloging operation.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2008
    Furthermore the index has a tendency to get corrupt and that can bog everything down even more.

    Now if your watching video that's streaming off the net - that could also be an internet connection issue.
  • SweepeRSweepeR
    edited January 2008
    kryyst wrote:
    Furthermore the index has a tendency to get corrupt and that can bog everything down even more.

    Now if your watching video that's streaming off the net - that could also be an internet connection issue.

    no, it d/ls the entire video and as ur watchign it it stutters it is the same issue i have on videos ALREADY d/led on my computer. Has ntn to do wi6th internet. its even like that wiht music on Winamp or whatveer program i use.

    Now here...maybe i should reformat my HD but i have about 350 GBs of spcae used...neone i can keep that stuff somewhere, format my 2 HD's and start fresh? woudl i need an external HD or waht?
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