how do i stop this glitching?

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ok, i have been running cool edit 2.1 on windows xp for a while now, no problems at all. i recently had to change out my hard drive and put on windows 98 s.e. and now in cool edit whenever i have more than one track going i start getting glitches, especially during recording. i cant even do one overdub, it glitches in the same spots on every track i load in there, its very frustrating. i'm currently re-formatting my hard drive and re-installing windows to see if that helps at all, damn computers. anyone know what i need to do? could it just be that windows 98 se sucks? it ran smooth with xp. only reason i didnt re-install it was because i couldnt find the cdrom.
 
That was exactly my experience with 98SE.

It also describes my experience when the power supply was failing. I changed out to a more robust [expensive] unit and all is roses again (XP machine).
 
98 is not a very efficient OS for music creation. I would recommend XP or at least 2000.

It also describes my experience when the power supply was failing. I changed out to a more robust [expensive] unit and all is roses again (XP machine).
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I also lost my powersupply a couple weeks ago. Before it totally self destructed my computer couldn't do anything right....
 
This was the second power supply to fail that way. The first time, I was a lot greener, and I thought maybe I was setting up CEP wrong when it started freezing and crashing. When the power supply went and took out two hard drives, the motherboard, the floppy drive, the CD burner and the sound card, I figured out what it was trying to tell me.

This time around, when the box started acting up, I installed a Thermaltake PSU of around 480W to replace the old 300W (if I remember). It occured to me that I had been adding stuff (two hard drives, a CD burner and a DVD burner) without ever asking the PSU if it still felt OK.

Back when I was just a little bitty user, I was told "power supplies NEVER fail!" This happened just before the power supply failed in a month-old computer.

Now I appreciate spending some extra bucks on better PSUs.
 
problem solved. i moved the sound card to a different slot, no more glitching, i even tested it by running like 30 tracks simutaniously and it didnt glitch once. interesting.
 
a27thletter said:
up, what does this mean?
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"i moved the sound card to a different slot"

Did you move it in the direction of the processor, or no?
 
It is important to install a soundcard away from all other cards (especially graphic cards). The interference can cause some weird playback problems.
 
Spaztic said:
It is important to install a soundcard away from all other cards (especially graphic cards). The interference can cause some weird playback problems.
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Which makes me wonder if this would effect a firewire card as well... Using a breakout box like my M-Audio Firewire 410.... hmmm....

to the original threadstarter: I've read (years ago) that the closer the card is to the chipset, the higher the priority in routing and better overall performance... But this other problem is obviously an issue as well...
 
peritus said:
Which makes me wonder if this would effect a firewire card as well... Using a breakout box like my M-Audio Firewire 410.... hmmm....

to the original threadstarter: I've read (years ago) that the closer the card is to the chipset, the higher the priority in routing and better overall performance... But this other problem is obviously an issue as well...
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Well this is true with older computers but not so much now with the faster pc's.
I don't know much about the firewire soundcards. You might want to swap some stuff around inside you computer and give it a try! If interference was prominent in your soundcard, I feel the firewire could be having similar issues.

Also you might want to try:
-Make sure anti-virus, spyware, or any other backround apps are not running.
-Disconnect from the internet
-Have the most updated drivers for the firewire soundcard and the firewire pci card.
-Make sure your 2000 or XP service packs are up-to-date
-Check latency settings on card
-Check magnetic interfearance (IE is you monitor sitting next to or on top of your pc?)
-Some really stupid stuff like USB mice and keyboards have caused me issues (switching to ps2 compatible units fixed an issue I was having)
-Make sure PC is up to specs....
-Make sure you are not getting interference from the firewire wire (newer wires should be shielded)
 
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