My Dell Studio XPS 1640 is having significant issues streaming online video. The fan will ramp up, and performance become sluggish, with video becoming choppy/stuttering. This happens at random video progress times, but very, very regularly.
Basic specs: (2.66 GHz Centrino Duo, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200RPM HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 (1GB) GPU) running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit.
The issue has been recently replicated when running Ubuntu 14.04 in a dual-boot config. As far as I remember, it seems this problem would also regularly occur on this laptop when it was running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and Windows 8 Pro 64-bit.
Symptoms are same whether using Chrome, IE or Firefox (all up-to-date versions).
The RAM does not seem to get full during these periods, usually staying around 40-60%. Occasionally, but not always, Shockwave Flash will report to have crashed (in Chrome).
I have other devices to use in troubleshooting, but the laptop in question is an important daily device, so I'm eager to sniff out and resolve this issue.
Thank you.
Edited by High_Tech_Redneck, 02 April 2015 - 02:14 PM.