I keep speaking (posting) too soon
Problem NOT solved. Instead of re-typing all this stuff, here's a copy of my E-mail to Aardvark. There's a little tidbit at the end that seems like it could be the key to all this but I'm obviously not a very good computer geek so I don't know.
Ben
After the fix listed below, I got several good playbacks out of what I had originally recorded (8trk 24/96) Then problems cropped back up. At first it was just a hiccup here and there that would cause one track to be out of sync but it quickly degenerated into the playback being 8 tracks of out of sync, stuttering mayhem. And finally to the point where I hit play, it waits 10-20 seconds and then goes through the motions, but no sound. This is pretty much what happened before. It started out O.K. and quickly (over the space of 4-6 attempted playbacks) degenerated into chaos. I can play the song I recorded in 16/44 but it's gibberish.
Here's some of the info you requested:
From Fresh Diagnose: Drv C: (OS and APPS) Write Speed avg 20.44 MB/s Read speed avg 38.57 Mb/s
Drv D: (Second Partition on master Drv): WSA 21.62 Mb/s
RSA 27.89 Mb/s
Drv G: (slave HD) WSA 20.62 RSA 29.15
From Aardvark advanced: PCI bus efficiency %100
sample rate 96.00xxx kHz
Driver version: 7.04
DSP version 7.20
Cakewalk is setup according to the quickstart in the manual
One thing I forgot to mention, and may be very important is in Cakewalk Options>Audio>driver bit depth if I select 24, I get a message that the Q10 does not support this.
Also, when the problems first re-appeared I tried increasing latency. This just made things worse. I then put the slider all the way to fast and it actually seemed to help, but only briefly. I've set it back in the middle but it doesn't do anything.
Ptron