New PC... New Problems.. ::sigh::

[scarboro78]

So I got my brand spankin new Dell P4 yesterday.. 3.0 ghz(800fsb), 512 ram, 80 gig hd, built in sound, WIN XP.. etc.. etc.. I plug in my Aardvark soundcard and my extra 80 gig drive from my old computer and everything seems to working fine UNTIL I install my Nuendo. I open up an existing project.. no sound. Check my settings, everything was pointing to the internal soundcard.. ok.. so I switch everything to my Aardvark. now I get sound. BUT the song clips like a mofo! You would think I was running a 200mhz system on windows 95 or something. My old machine worked fine running XP and only started clipping when I started messing with a bunch of tracks with effects/automation. I figure maybe the soundcard and the internal soundcard crap were conflicting so I go into my device manager and disable anything that isn't an aardvark driver and nothing, same problem. I tried other software as well thinking maybe it was a problem internal to Nuendo and it happened there as well.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what this may be??

 

[Carter]

Is the DMA enabled on both hard drives?

 

[Carter]

A1004 How Do I get rid of “Clicks and Pops?

Answer
To get rid of clicks and pops, make sure you do the following:

• Make sure Cubase/Nuendo, the control panel of your audio hardware, and your converters are all set to the same sample rate.

• Try different buffer settings in your audio hardware’s control panel to find the best performance. Using extremely low buffer settings will yield very low latency, but may also introduce clicks and pops, depending on your computer system.

• Make sure unnecessary background applications are not running when using Cubase/Nuendo. Anti-virus and disk utility programs have been known to introduce clicks and pops.

• If using multiple hard drives, try recording to a different hard drive entirely. If the hard drive controller (SCSI, IDE, USB, Firewire, etc) is sharing resources with your audio hardware or video card, clicks and pops may occur.

• If using PCI based audio hardware, move the PCI card further away from the video card (AGP slot)

• If using a PC, reduce the graphic acceleration by going to Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced>Troubleshoot

• If using a PC, make sure your USB host controller isn’t sharing resources with your audio hardware, hard disk controller, or video card.

• If using Word Clock, make sure your audio hardware and converters are properly set to sync to incoming Work Clock.
• Run a disk diagnostics utility to determine if your hard disk needs defragmenting. If so, then defragment.


this might help.

 

[scarboro78]

WOW... Thats ALOT! lol. Well i could answer a few of those questions. I did close out all of the background programs before running the app. The PC has an onboard video, and the Aardvark card is actually the only card utilizing a PCI slot.. but I'll try moving it to the last slot. I always record to my second hard drive in case of hard drive failure... The computer as I said is brand new so I wouldn't think it would need to be defragmented, not yet at least. The graphics accelaration may be set very high due to the flat screen it came with so I'll try that as well.

I have a couple questions though:
1) On the "DMA" being enabled on the hard drives.. what exactly is that and where is it set?
2) On the USB host controller sharing resources with your audio hardware, hard disk controller, or video card. Where do I check this and how do I change it?

Thanks a milion!

 

[scarboro78]

Another question... was my assumption about my aardvark soundcard having conflict with the onboard sound correct? Or can they co-exist without any problems?

 

[Carter]

To check your DMA, control panel, system, device manager. click on your hard drives and run through the tabs until you find a DMA checkbox.

Not to keen on USB because I dont use any but if you do the same as above you can see and change what IRQ it is using and also it will tell you if their is a conflict between devices. The two cards should be allright just disable the on board card.

anymore questions just holla!


By the way, Merry Christmas

 

[scarboro78]

To check your DMA, control panel, system, device manager. click on your hard drives and run through the tabs until you find a DMA checkbox.

Not to keen on USB because I dont use any but if you do the same as above you can see and change what IRQ it is using and also it will tell you if their is a conflict between devices. The two cards should be allright just disable the on board card.

anymore questions just holla!


By the way, Merry Christmas

Thanks man! I'll try this stuff tonight.. I want to play with my new toy already !!!
Oh and merry xmas to you too..

 

[scarboro78]

Still Have Issues!!

Dammit man... I've basically tried everything on the list of stuff suggested.. plus everything on the list of XP tweaks on musicxp.net.. and NADA... ZIP... ZILCH. Actually the ONE thing I didn't do because I just don't know how to do. is messing with the IRQ settings. I actually went into the bios and disables my parallel port, joystick port(forget what it's really called), and the onboard sound... but I didn't see anything for IRQ settings. At this point I doubt this is the problem anyway because I installed my fruity loops and It worked beuatifully although I'm sure fruity loops is nowhere near as much of a ram hungry program as nuendo & cubase are. So if ANYONE has any other suggestions.. PLEASE help.. thanks! !

 

[warble]

Does your new P4 by chance have Hyper-Threading enabled? How about Nuendo - do you have the last update? Not sure what version you're running. I'd take a guess that P4 HT may not work completely properly with Nuendo - depending on the version of course. Only a guess because I don't use the P4 platform, but I've been using Cubase SX 2 and now 3 and have seen some posts at Cubase.net regarding the P4 and Hyper-Threading.

Also, which Aardvark card are you using?

 

[scarboro78]

Does your new P4 by chance have Hyper-Threading enabled? How about Nuendo - do you have the last update? Not sure what version you're running. I'd take a guess that P4 HT may not work completely properly with Nuendo - depending on the version of course. Only a guess because I don't use the P4 platform, but I've been using Cubase SX 2 and now 3 and have seen some posts at Cubase.net regarding the P4 and Hyper-Threading.

Also, which Aardvark card are you using?

Hey.. I actually tried disabling the Hyper Threading through bios and it got even worse.. so that's out of the question. I'm using an old version of Nuendo but the lastest Cubase and both give me the same problem. Only thing that worked fine is Fruity Loops. I'm using the Aardvark LX6 card. I really have no idea what else to try man.. kinda sucks..

 

[warble]

How bout the Aardvark card - latest drivers I assume? Have you tried searching the Cubase or Nuendo forums?

Seems like you've covered a bit of ground already attempting to troubleshoot. Hopefully you can get this figured out. Hate buying new toys and not being able to play

 

[scarboro78]

How bout the Aardvark card - latest drivers I assume? Have you tried searching the Cubase or Nuendo forums?

Seems like you've covered a bit of ground already attempting to troubleshoot. Hopefully you can get this figured out. Hate buying new toys and not being able to play

Yup... Latest drivers.. whole bit. i just looked at the Nuendo.net site. Saw something I haven't quite tried with the IRQ settings. They basically tell you to play around with different PCI slots and see what works so I'ma do that. Otherwise im screwed. If I do find the card is sharing an IRQ.. how do I switch it?? Just move to another slot? What if all slots are shared IRQ's?? I dunno man.. new computers overrated!

 

[warble]

I'd think there would be one slot that would grab it's own IRQ. On my system, I have my soundcard in slot 3 and it managed to grab it's own IRQ.

Let us know if moving around helps you.

 

[Carter]

Yup... Latest drivers.. whole bit. i just looked at the Nuendo.net site. Saw something I haven't quite tried with the IRQ settings. They basically tell you to play around with different PCI slots and see what works so I'ma do that. Otherwise im screwed. If I do find the card is sharing an IRQ.. how do I switch it?? Just move to another slot? What if all slots are shared IRQ's?? I dunno man.. new computers overrated!

Read my third post again

 

[scarboro78]

Well Fella's.. my troubles continue... I checked alll my IRQ settings and there was no conflict.. it actually grabbed it's own IRQ on each PCI slot. Only thing is that it ends up being a very high(low priority) number like IRQ 17. However it's not sharing it with anything else. I went to the nuendo message board and alot of people were talking about how the hyperthreading technology didn't agree with Nuendo as well as the service pack 2 (of which I have both). So their fix was to reinstall windows without hyperthreading.. So I was like F it... don't have anything to lose.. So I went ahead... disabled it in my bios settings, and reinstalled windows. And guess what.. same problem! Then again I reinstalled everything using Dell's system recovery so I'm not sure if it installed windows with Hyperthreading enabled anyway, even though I disabled it in my bios. (noticing the book this is turning into.. sorry). I go into bios.. Enable hyperthreading again, just to see if it works.. and sure enough it did. So I guess the windows reinstall did nothing (using the dell system recovery). Anyways so I'm toying around with Nuendo one last time and I go into my Task Manager.. right click on nuendo.exe and see this option called "Set Affinity".. clicked on it out of curiousity.. and it show's two cpu's. I'm guessing one os the real cpu and the other is the virtual. I Unclick the second cpu and guess what.. NO CLICKING. NO POPPING! Only thing I did notice was that now when I scroll back and forth the Disk bar goes up and clips... though it doesn't seem to cause as much trouble.. ::and breath:: any thoughts on this one!? (sorry bout the book)