clicks and pops / big Ram

[gigagagga]

Hello everyone!

AMD Athlon DDR 1.0 GHz
AMD 760 chipset (200 MHz bus)
384 meg DDR RAM
XP Professional
40 gig ATA-66 IDE sample hard drive
20 gig ATA -100 IDE Application drive
Delta 1010 using XP drivers 10.0.0.26


does anyone have a recommendation on using large amounts of ram with windows XP?

I have 384 meg right now and i am getting clicks and pops in the audio. I am not sure if it is related to the RAM or not but i have tried everything else and i am at a loss for what to do.

when I load the new Bardstown Audio giga instrument it takes up 62% of my availlable RAM. Is this the problem?

What percent of ram useage should i be running at?


Any info on how to best setup XP for audio would be greatly appreciated also. I have turned most fancy things off but perhaps there is something else that i can do to stop the problem. I never had clicks when i was running this same system under ME but the new drivers for my Delta 1010 are multiclient and allow a better latency ratio so i would like to keep working in XP if possible

Thanks
Giga...

[pendragon]

Definately HD related, perhaps a videocard or soundcard that is fighting with interrupts or IDE channel that\'s fighting as a slave.

Hard to tell how to solve it really.

Try this to start:

Install the Piano that pops/clicks on your normal system Harddisk (instead of audio) does it pop/click now??? if not the GS HD is the one that should be put on a different IDE of something.

DID YOU ENABLED DMA on the HD?

Peace,
PDG