20-25% DPCs CPU usage.

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  1. zanxion

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    Hi,
    I have bought an AAO751h. A real bargain for 260 euros. It looks great, works great, but there is something that troubles me. When I launch foobar2000 or media player to listen to an mp3 I get the DPCs using up to 25% of the CPU. Is that normal. Has something gone wrong with the installation of certain codecs (I have installed the latest k-lite codec pack).
    My OS is XP home.
     
    zanxion, Jan 10, 2011
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    O.k. Here it goes. After rounds of running around DPCs and high CPU usage, and after re-installing almost any driver on my AAO751h, I have discovered that the damn avast free, with its auto updates was killing my entire sessions when booting with the wireless on.
    I have disabled the auto-updates and now the DPCs never get past 5%.
    Any ideas with what to replace avast?
     
    zanxion, Jan 10, 2011
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    Try using Norton, it never causes me DPC's, or any other problems as a mater of fact.
     
    Indie, Jan 23, 2011
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    I have installed Win 7 Ultimate and now I have better perfomance and rarely any DPCs spikes. :)
    Unfortunately avast! is a good free solution. Works better in Win 7 than in XP.
     
    zanxion, Jan 24, 2011
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