Kmixer.sys CPU usage and choppy video play

[Persian Pride]

Hello guys, I just joined this forum since I was having problems with my Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Intel Pentium M processor (1.8 GHz) and 2GB RAM. I have a Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics card.

I just recently reformatted my laptop and couldn't help but notice the horrible video playback. I did a few things such as installing DirectX, updating flash player, and unchecking all non-microsoft related startup processes (msconfig).
My laptop sometimes does great and plays my game at 20-30 FPS, but then after a few minutes, the FPS drops to about 3.
Same with watching videos. It's like looking at pictures really. Thats how bad the choppiness is.

So I decided to do some investigation and installed Process Explorer to look into detail. Turns out that under the System process, there is a thread called kmixer.sys which is a driver for a soundcard I guess. This one thing has spikes in CPU usage up to 70% sometimes.
Another thread to look at under Svchost is krnl or kernel something. Also uses quite a bit sometimes.

I wanted to see if anyone could possibly help me as I would greatly appreciate it. I looked at just about every forum there is about my problems, and still haven't gotten a solid solution yet.

Thank you in advance,
SK

 

[Matan Eldan]

Please try to install this Microsoft update for XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8C2E44A5-6A28-4888-93A7-6A6C6A87BE7F&displaylang=en

*can you see where kmixer.sys is located? It should be in C:\windows\system32\drivers

If it is located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 it might be a camouflaged trojan, virus or other malware.

 

[Persian Pride]

Yes that is where it is located.
I downloaded it but since I have SP3, it just said there was no need for installation, and it cancelled out.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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[Mousemonkey]

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