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p4, intel 850, 512 rdram.

i know you all (and me too) have bumped into this question a whole lot of times but i just can't find an explanation anywhere.
i recently bought a wdc 80gb 8mb cache hdd on which i installed winxp pro in acpi mode.
i have a luna2 and a pulsar 2 which doesn't share irq with anything. when in logic i hear occasional clicks like, every 25 seconds.

if i listen to recorded material the clicks are not regular as in clicking at the same place in the song, it's just random clicks so i've excluded that the clicks gets recorded.
when it clicks it affects the recorded sound, the sound kind of "ducks" when the click sounds..

SFP works flawlessly on t h i s (wdc 100 gb 2mg cache) hdd that i use for internet, gaming etc and i have NOT tweaked this os at all..

i've tweaked the os on that other hdd to the max, installed intel application accellerator, reinstalled SFP several times, set it to "background services", updated my graphics drivers bla bla, you name it.

anyone got a clue?

thanks.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: siberiansun on 2003-06-10 16:07 ]</font>

I also use a I850 board, and found that i got better performance and stability with standard PC rather than ACPI...

I suggest you reinstall xp if you decide to switch to standard pc.

yes i suppose standard pc is the way to go.
what bothers me though is that XP with acpi works smooth as hell on my slower hdd, while the same exact configuration on my new "fast" hdd feels a bit unstable, slower startup, random clicks in logic for example.

i use "nicklock" to choose between the hdd's, which makes my computer believe that any hdd i choose (with the flick of a key) at startup is IDE "primary 0".

wonder what the heck it could be...

I understand '...the sound kind of "ducks" when the click sounds.. ' as an analog effect on playback, not the data value recorded, right ?
Then I'd suspect the powersupply, but I can't make any sense of what should be causing such a load (?)

cheers, Tom

yes Tom, the clicks causes a slight micro-short studder on the recorded audio. regarding your power supply theory, the thing is that the other hdd runs perfectly. with an untweaked os (!).
i think i remember something like this happened back when i was using SBLive, i believe the intel app acc was the cause back then.. does that make any sense?

by the way, i had MAJOR problems a minute ago when i added a 2nd amplitube to a 2nd track. logic refused to run and the "audio meter" in logic went bananas. (i've worked on projects with 6-7 amplitubes and loads of other plugs).
i only had 2 tracks running (!!!).

when i ctrl+alt+deleted logic was on roughly 115000kb and while that window was open there was "click and pop and scratch" mayhem.

what's up with that?

'slight micro-short studder' doesn't read analog, so forget about the PSU.
I'd suspect the cache handling, which must be significantly different on the 2 drives.
Possibly it confused Logic as well, but I'm really no expert for this app.

cheers, tom

I get clicks too, but they seem to come from my Yamaha 01V's ADAT connection....

Perhaps you've tweaked it too far? Go through the tweaks you did and test it after you do each one. A pain in the ass, I know, but it will have a good chance of isolating the problem.

peace

Tweaked what? The 01V? I only sync it to my Pulsar.

Sorry my post was directed at siberiansun

peace

Problem solved. At0mic told me to slave my pulsars to the 01V: no more clicks!