![]() So just by accident I stumbled upon a thread describing DMA vs PIO on disk drives. It fixed my memory and start up problems immediately, but my audio still stuttered. I had finally resorted to the idea of building a new pc, but figured I may as well start by trying a new psu in my old pc. So the problem turned out to be the power supply. ![]() Thought I should resurrect this thread to say problem solved, finally! Though I havent actually tried any audio yet, Dpclat is showing a drastic improvement. hehe I guess that must reset something? Worth a try for sure. Interesting, so you just pulled the battery, and then put it back in, and rebooted? Or left the battery out entirely? And we are talking about the motherboard battery? Not the wireless mouse battery ? sorry, I know that sounds like a stupid question. ![]() Then got a message that my interface could run faster, then started to bring up the USB ports and played my track.CPU usage drastically downaround 15% Plugin down from 60% to 24%.started bring it all back up with the latency checker on.the onlytime I red lined latency checker is when I hot plugged in the outboard backup lf induced spike but then down to good levels. Shut down the system and pulled the Battery.booted back up. Got rid of the wireless mouse.can't get rid of much more. Everything in start up, all unused USB ports, webcam, dvd/player, wireless, still not much progress.Threw a set of headphones across the room, still no progress.out $100. With the help of dpclat latency checker and others on the forum, started to shut down everything on the computer. unplayable with pops and clicks throughout the track. suddenly it was running at 105%, individual pulgins were running at 2x. Recently, I was playing a track that has 15 tracks, 10 plugins, and usually runs about 50% of CPU usage. Until know I have not done any special to my computer for audio other than to optimize. Inspiron 1520, Vista optimized for audio, 4g of ram, record at 96k ,and a tascam 1641. I have a thread posted "pops and Clicks" and have been working on the issue for a couple of days with the help of folks on the forum. You could check it pretty well for bad capacitors, but I would try other solutions first. Unless it's got very unstable voltage readings, I wouldn't even think about replacing that. It doesn't sound like your computer is very power hungry, in fact, it's really not, so even 380W is a lot for that machine. It can help you, and make all your problems go away, or it can make problems drastically worse. This is a touchy subject because it can go in two directions. I would also point out that maybe you should check for a BIOS update. Past that, I would try a somewhat faster AGP card if you're able to find one (not sure what you have, but it is a hard to find type at this point). You might also look around Asus' website, to see if there are updated drivers available, as that could help you as well. I would first try to disable any networking when working in Reaper (ethernet or wireless) and seeing if that makes a difference. ![]() A power supply recommendations? Or am I totally off track?Īs long as the unit isn't old as the hills, I would say you have no reason to suspect the power supply. I'm thinking of trying a new psu, and if that does not sort it out, possibly a new video card(is AGP still recommended?) From there if I still have issues I guess I just build a new system. Next on my list might be the video card like you suggest, but that wouldn't cause these initial start up problems would it? What makes me suspect a psu, is that it seems I can't shut this pc down without having these start up issues. ![]() Turned the switch on the back on and off a few times, and eventually got it to run, but did not have any video, restarted again, more than once, eventually got a video feed, but boot time was at least two or three times longer than normal. When I tried to restart the pc, I got absolutely nothing. I tried reseating those components like you said but the problem still persists. Reseat that and while you're in there reseat the memory sticks too. The most suspected component would be your graphics card. If the motherboard has an on-board graphics controller, but you are using a higher end graphics card instead, you could pull the card out and use the on-board chip to see if it makes any difference. Most likely candidate would be the graphics card. There really is no way to test the motherboard other than the on board tests when the problems are as you describe. ![]()
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