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Feb 26 2010, 09:01 AM |
The light of your hard drive blinks when it's working storing/moving data. And that's when the skipping happens. That points to the hard drive.
As you have enough processor and RAM, once again it makes me think of the HD. I guess it might be too old/over burdened or just too slow. Check that there aren't any extra apps running in the background that make your hard drive do an extra job, if you have something auto-updating, or your antivirus running an scan, or whatever that is an extra load to the HD. -------------------- Guitars:
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Feb 26 2010, 10:40 AM |
Make sure you're using the ASIO sound driver and not the one from your soundblaster card. That Soundblaster hardware maybe you even could turn off?
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Feb 26 2010, 12:29 PM |
If the skips are happening at the rate of the HDD LED, there is definitely a connection there. I would check the HDD first. What is your HDD configuration, and what is their current state?
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Feb 26 2010, 06:21 PM |
What's the RPM speed of those drives? Are they 5400rpm or 7200 or 10k or what?
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Feb 26 2010, 07:14 PM |
A lot of HD activity is sometimes a sign that the platter is about to fail. Again, it may be an indication that there is not sufficient room on the HD for the swop file. However HD isn't the only possible cause here - just the most likely. Another is that your pc is struggling to stream the data across the FSB. Just to be on the safe side back up any essential stuff on your HDs asap.
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Feb 28 2010, 04:55 PM |
5400rpm is relatively slow, and if you are doing audio projects, HDD must perform many read & write functions simultaneously. To simply put, for your current use, it's not going to cut it, upgrade is needed very soon.
My advice to you would be to buy bigger HDD unit that has at least 7200rpm. They are very cheap these days, I believe 500GB internal one can be found for ~50$. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Mar 1 2010, 05:29 AM |
Ok guys thanks for your advice. I'll probably get a new hard drive. I really need to give in and build/buy a complete new desktop and start my home recording rig
5400rpm is relatively slow, and if you are doing audio projects, HDD must perform many read & write functions simultaneously. To simply put, for your current use, it's not going to cut it, upgrade is needed very soon. My advice to you would be to buy bigger HDD unit that has at least 7200rpm. They are very cheap these days, I believe 500GB internal one can be found for ~50$. actually Ivan I think I'm running at 7200RPM on this hard drive. Here's a link to it on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822135106 I guess the next step up would be a 10,000 RPM one. While I know it would increase my overall performance, I'd be really upset to spend ~$80 and this not fix my problem. I'm wondering if I should invest in an internal soundcard interface or EMU box.. -------------------- "That's alright I still got my guitar, look out now!" -Hendrix
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Mar 1 2010, 12:45 PM |
I'd say that 7200 rpm should be enough. I have no problem running it on 7200 HDs.
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Mar 1 2010, 02:00 PM |
If it is 7200rpm, you shouldn't have any problems. If the discs are full (less than 15% of space available on them), and if you run system files, vst processes and audio files from same discs, this is where the problems occur.
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Mar 3 2010, 09:49 PM |
Ah so you have an Audigy, this completely changes the problem!
As a matter of fact, I had very similar problem with both of these devices before. The solution for me was to remove the Audigy from the system completely, and removing all the drivers. Also, make sure the POD is working on 44.1 or 48K resolution, because Audigy works on 96 by default. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Mar 4 2010, 12:01 AM |
Have you deinstalled the drivers for Audigy completely?
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Mar 4 2010, 12:33 AM |
What is TeaTimer.exe ?? Its eating A LOT of ram!
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Mar 4 2010, 02:04 AM |
It's Spybot - Search and Destroy's background process that scans for spyware and stuff from what I understand. It is eating up a ton of ram though. It appears that teatimer has a checkered (or chequered) history with some updates including poor performance. I'm also getting the impression from the SB forums that it may be monitoring your temp space for potential threats. If your temp space has some large audio files, or many small files of any kind getting left in there, it may be best to clear that out. This is also a process I wouldn't even want running if I'm going to tax my machine with audio and video software at the same time. -------------------- ::jafomatic
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