HELP!! CPU slow down (Cubase SX user)

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I have a AMD 2.01 with a VIA KT333 chipset

On and off for 5 months ive been getting this error message in the bootup screen

WARNING! CPU Clock Failure
Reset host CPU Ratio

i took it to the tech who originally built the PC for me, he reset the jumpers then re tweeked the BIOS options to optimize it's performance for audio (The same settings as before). I take it back home and I still get the same message ..this time only once.

Whats more....I was making a song with only 5 audio tracks running with 2 or 3 plug in effects each. The VST performance reader said my CPU pushing at 90% percent! WTF?!?

My tech said he tested and ran Cubase when he originally built the system and said that it was ruuning 24 tracks with heavy effects on it just fine. Also said the 32 audio tracks with light effects should be fine too. What's going on?

Saving songs is taking forever whereas before..it would save and load up songs in the blick of an eye! I check out the cpu performance in the task manager window, with no progams running..just the desktop, and the cpu performace is jumping from 1% to 11% to 14% to 33%....when i load up Cubase..it then jumps up from 34% to 68% to 93% to 100% back n forth....there's no consistency in it's behavoir.

IS my cpu damaged? Is it a buggy chipset? should I reformat and start fresh or go all out and spend more money that i cant afford on an all new motherboard?

HELP!!! I'm a musician not a damn Tech, man! I dont have time for this hassle!
 
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damn...no love for the newbie,aye?

C'mon guys ...cant somebody point me in the right direction?..i know i'm not a regular but you guys were new here once too. Help me out here..this is frustrating me to death. I cant even record tunes cuz i have to waste time trying to figure all this technical stuff out.
 
Welcome aboard, Blues!

And bummer of a first post to have to make. :(

I don't have any advice for your processor situation, unfortunately, but I did want you to know that you're very welcome here- the lack of answers isn't because you are new but that its a tough question to answer unless you have experience with it.

Personally, that among the wierdest random errors I've heard of. I wouldn't even have a clue where to start problemsolving that one.

Sorry- but welcome to the BBS.

take care,
Chris
 
It could be any numbers of things.

For some reason AMD and VIA often don't go well together in audio applications.

Maybe your registry has got all bloated.
Assuming you've done all the obvious stuff like defragged your drives, a reformat and reload of your OS might be best option. I have an Athlon/VIA chipset and upgraded from 98 to XP recently and things are now a lot better.

If that doesn't work, maybe a new motherboard
 
thx guys...

glad someone responded..

Yea, i defragged both drives and the slow down was even MORE noticeable than before....is defragging the ONLY way to say, clean up a bloated registry?

Yea, i'll try a reformat and OS re-install but if all these things of mine are pointed towards a faulty cpu, i dont see how it's gonna help..but hey..maybe it will....

if anybody'd interested...1 of my songs is up here for stream or download:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/bluesmusic.htm


thx for the advice guys......anyone know the best chipsets/cpu's for audio?
 
A defrag won't clean up your registry. The registry grows over time whenever you install a new prog or utility, even a demo of some plugins. Sometimes the uninstall processes don't clean up properly.

For my next system I'm going Intel/Intel
 
i've got an epox kt400 system that does this every third boot or so, it's a bios bug, you need to flash the bios which i haven't done on the system in question yet :) lame as that is, heh, go to the cpu ratio setup in the bios and set the multi to what ever your cpu mhz is suppose to be, 12 - 12.5 etc etc, that will fix the issue but you'll see it again, for help go to www.amdmb.com under your main boards section of the fourm....
 
I don't know if you fixed the problem or not yet, but I've had that problem and it was due to bad ram... Try a different ram stick, and see if that does the trick, it did for me.

~Sound
 
Try new bios. Then put everything to default except change the bus to 133. In the integrated peripherals disable all deivces not being used. LTP ports, com ports ect.

tweaking windows. This is a link to a gamers tweak guide, but it will help your recording rig too. I'd keep the swap file though. Hard set it to be 700 MB or so.

Also get Adaware once installed check for updates and scan. when done right click and select all if it didn't already. Nuke everything it finds...
 
Have you checked whether the battery on your mobo was OK? if it's flat, your bios settings won't be kept, equivalent to resetting the bios each time you turn your puter down.

a bios flash can be cool too.
 
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