Another Cure for Clicks and Pops

[estring]

Just discovered another cause/cure for these little buggers.

I'm sure most of you know that you need to set your IDE Channels to "DMA if Available" in the Device Manager.
The one thing I found out is that the window "Current Transfer Mode" needs to display the Ultra DMA Mode your unit is using.

Sometimes, even though we have toggled to "DMA if Available" in the transfer mode window, the "Current Transfer Mode" window will say "PIO Mode" this is bad.

Example: Device type Auto Detection
Transfer Mode DMA if available
Current transfer Mode PIO MODE

We need to change that PIO Mode to an Ultra DMA mode. If you can use the drop down box to do this, great, if not ...
You do this by going back to the Primary or Secondary IDE Channel and right clicking to uninstall this. Reboot your PC and let Windows re-install this the right way. Hopefully when you check this again it will have an Ultra DMA Mode assigned to your DMA.

I had all kinds of noise during playback and tried everything, I mean everything. And I have a pretty powerful DAW, but I stumbled across this cure on a movie making website and it did the trick.

Just wanted to add this to the long list of Clicks and Pops cures.

 

[Robert D]

Thanks for posting this. There can never be too much info available on this subject.

-RD