It has to be my Hard Drive....RIGHT???

[estring]

Heres the problem.....
I run Cubasis.
3.0ghz
512 ram
800 FSB
My hard drive is a Samsung 802 7200 80gig

everything runs fine for a while then all of a sudden for no reason, all my playback drags and screeches..... not really pops and clicks but annoying "digital" type screeching.
So I reload XP. Again everything starts out fine. then a few days and a few recordings later it happens again.
I have demo/trials of Ableton, Sonar and SX and it happens within those as well.
The only thing I can think of is that is has to be this crappy Samsung hard drive.

Thanks for your thoughts!

 

[ecktronic]

I am getting some mad digital screeching at the moment actually even in Windows media player. Sounds like it would work well in an Aphex twin song! Im thinking its something to do with the soundcard or maybe something linked to the soundcard. My soundcard is just new, its a Soundblaster Audigy2. Thats all i have to help, sorry.

 

[legionserial]

Hi,

I have an SB Audigy 2 aswell and I have had the odd squeak and pop, although saying that it hasnt been to bad of late, and I think I may know why.

I first noticed it when I would be listening to winamp while doing whatever I was doing. After asking one of my friends who is a walking encyclopedia of all things computer related, he told me it could actually be to do with the keyboard.

You keyboard is one of, if not the, part of your computer that receives the most priority resource-wise of anything on the computer. So if you are frantically typing away, with the resources going to the keyboard, it is going to cause some kind of latency with other peripherals/hardware.

Basically the squeaking and popping you hear is how latency on your soundcard manifests itself. Wheras on a graphics card the animation slows, on a sound card, the sound jumps and gets lost causing the squeak or chirp where it cant keep up with the information going into it.

After what my friend had told me, it occured to me that it was indeed happening mostly when I was typing. Normally chatting to people on MSN whilst listening to music.

It doesnt happen to me anymore mostly because I barely do any typing on my music pc as its for music.
I have also started using a 15 year old PS/2 keyboard with no frills on it, as opposed to my 1 year old fancy USB keyboard with all the email and volume buttons. Which broke. (The old stuff is always the best...they dont make things like they used to etc etc) I'm guessing it may have been the fact that I was using a USB keyboard therefore requiring more power that was a contributing factor.

I dont know if this will solve the lockup problem, never had that problem myself, in fact it wont solve any problems, its just some info, but it sounds to me that its not your hard drive, and more like your soundcard crashing. Could be remedied by dropping the sample rate, or the hardware acceleration of your sound card.
You may also want to check that your power supply unit is kicking out an adequate wattage for the kit you have in your pc. 550 watt should do the job if you have lots of uber cards.

Sorry if this info is totally useless......