S5M stutter problem

[Mattuk]

The problem is that the laptop intermittently, could be 5 minute, could be 30 minutes, will stutter, the screen goes black for 2 to 5 seconds and any sound playing at the time will loop the current soundcard’s buffer like a stuck record. When the screen comes back the sound continues from where it left off and I can continue to use window.

This seems to happen at random and doesn’t seem to be linked to any one piece of software I am using; also the laptop has been freezing completely and not coming back to windows in the same style.

I have formatted and run the recovery disc but the problem persists.


any ideas?

thanks

Matt

[Blencogo]

Hi Matt and welcome to Club Vaio.

I would check to see if your Vaio is overheating as this is a possible cause.

Download Mobilemeter and check your CPU temperature to see if your processor is shutting down due to excess temperatures.

If you let us know what temperature your CPU runs at under load we may be able to offer some advice.

[Mattuk]

The CPU runs at 800Mhz and temperature is 48*C to 50*C while idle.

When forcing heavy disk access throught comand prompt 'dir/s'
the CPU goes to 1.73Ghz and the temperature goes to 60*C to 64*C

thanks

Matt

[Blencogo]

Hi Matt,

Those temps seem OK so it's probably not an overheating problem.

I'm not sure what else would cause an intermittent freezing of the Vaio except a driver conflict of some sort.