still having skipping issues....just ordered a gigaport AG

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It so sounds like a software......does rebooting the laptop correct the issue?

I'd do one of 2 things:

1) reformat...I think the problem will go away

2) take the laptop out of service; use it for non critical tasks (hey use it for lighting and as a back up) and buy a new one.....$700.00
 
thatmusicguy said:
It so sounds like a software......does rebooting the laptop correct the issue?

I'd do one of 2 things:

1) reformat...I think the problem will go away

2) take the laptop out of service; use it for non critical tasks (hey use it for lighting and as a back up) and buy a new one.....$700.00
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Can't really tell if rebooting helps or not because it will go for a few gigs without a hitch, then have a few problems the next one. I hate to not use it since I spent about $1700 on it just a year ago.

I may have it wiped clean and go from there....?
 
I spoke with Kris at length. Inclined to agree with Hank's assessment. Kris's USB bus demands are pretty heavy.

His intention is to reformat, reinstall OS and go with VDJ only. If after that, and with the GigaPortAG, should the problem recur, would be cause for that laptop to be squarely plopped in the trash; no rim, just the bottom of the net.
 
What can I say......



....Cap is da man!



I'm wiping this bad boy clean today, installing Windows XP SP3 (NOT Vista again)....organizing my hard drive a bit. I'm going to continue using my two turtle micro's just to see what happens - but will buy the gigaport late July when they are off back order. Thanks for all the advice.

fingers crossed
 
Kris: If after all that, if you'd like to try a GigaPortAG anyway, I have a spare I can loan you. Load the ASIO drivers file, get WinXP to recognize and accept the device, set it up in VDJ, and give it a whirl.
 
Cap Capello said:
Kris: If after all that, if you'd like to try a GigaPortAG anyway, I have a spare I can loan you. Load the ASIO drivers file, get WinXP to recognize and accept the device, set it up in VDJ, and give it a whirl.
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Cap, that would be great! I would love to try it out before I buy it - I'll PM you my details and of course pay all shipping costs.

I posed a question in the computer forum, but is there a big difference between the service pack 2 and 3 for XP? There is a substantial price difference for the two.
 
Kris : From various techie site reports, here's what it seems to be boiling down to.

When SP3 is installed fresh and complete, there doesn't seem to be issues.

When SP3 is installed over the top of SP2 as an upgrade/update, a myriad of complaints and issues arise, in fact more than if upgraded to SP3 from SP1a.

Why?

I have no idea.
 
As we speak I'm having my poor Dell stripped clean of Vista and all it's henchmen and XP reinstalled. The whole thing is costing me $300, but it'll be done right and hopefully will fix the issue?

More to come. I should know from this Friday and Saturday's gigs if it's working correctly or not.
 
What is really going to be sad about this whole incident is when all is said and done he finds out he has a bunch of bad rips! LOL
 
Cap Capello said:
Steve: Glad duals work for you.
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Just an FYI...

When it comes to the USB bus, everything is virtualized, so there is generally no problem with identical cards (I've had up to 4 of the same, with no issues). The reason I say "generally", is because if you use the card's drivers, and they are not designed to comply with Window's USB driver model -- they may attempt to claim the same real estate internally.

With internal cards, yes, it is many times an issue, because identical cards, will use the same resources, and attempt to claim the same memory space.

Windows will allocate virtual IRQs and memory space, on a first come, first served basis, on the USB bus -- and will work fine if you use the built in Windows drivers.
 
I'm happy to report that somehow I finally got rid of the crackling, pop noises, skipping etc. I sat down and dug deeper into Vista and turned off EVERYTHING in the operating system that I could especially files that had anything to do with networking or the network card. Also, now there is no anti virus, no windows defender, no nothing. It doesn't look for a network connection and wifi of any kind is not enabled.

I shut the computer down and miraculously the next day everything sounded fine with all of the programs I use and even with two or three of them running at the same time. I don't know which processes that I turned off finally did the trick, but things are hunky dory now as far as I can tell. Even running off the internal Sigma Tel sound card it sounds great with no popping or crackling. I was a hair away from ordering a Vostro with XP before this.

What surprised me is that the Sigma Tel internal sound is quite decent sounding and so far without extensive testing it sounds about as good as the external sound cards I have. If I had followed my instincts and gone with XP I wouldn't have had to go through this long ordeal and some of programs I tried out would have worked just fine that didn't work on Vista. I hope this is behind me . . .
 
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