I've done everything. Latency mon is pointing out all kinds of severe latency between ACPI and the processor (probably stepping in frequency). I'm using an acer, and I swore that I'd never buy an acer again and, I'm swearing it again now. I'm running the latest bios, intel drivers for the mainboard.... In fact everything is as current as I could make it. I already disabled everything I could in the device manager to no avail. The problem is in apci, which would be even more frustrating to have to disable on a laptop. Anyone have any ideas short of disabling ACPI? I could reinstall windows 7 to see if I can figure out where the problem starts, but I really, really don't want to have to reinstall everything else along the way. Yeah, listening to music (esp pandora) causes massive stutters. The only audio driver that works with the dolby speakers is the one on the acer website. The microsoft ones sound awful with the dolby boost. Yeah, I'm pretty F**ing annoyed right now. Seems like a total dead end. What a waste of a new laptop. Oh yeah, its a sandy bridge core i5 @ 2.5ghz. Its also an optimus laptop with a nvidia 540. I'd prefer to find some solution that works than have to sell this laptop and find a new one. I installed windows 7 to get rid of the acer bloatware install. Also...wtf are my pagefault resolution times so off the charts??? Something fishy is going on here. Oh yeah, disabling the battery didn't fix the acpi issue.
