Techie Question

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I built a computer and everything is working great for the most part. I am running into a problem that is very frustrating and I was wonder if someone could help me figure it out.

I built this PC to record music on and speed and storage and everything is right but if I try to record through USB with a USB device (POD XT) I get this horrible popping and clicking problem. I though it was the device so I plugged it into another computer and everything sounded excellent, so I have ruled out the device. I have updated all drivers on this machine (almost 100% sure, but I could be overlooking one) and have updated all the drivers for the device. Still no change. I started digging a little deeper and have found something that I think might be the problem but I am not sure. On my system information it says that IRQ 5,10, and 11 are all being shared but the status says ok. What these all have in common is that 5 & 10 share a Standard openHCD USB Host Controller and 11 shares a Enhanced PCI to Host USB Controller. Could it be possible that the noise is coming from a device sharing the same IRQ? I have an Asus A7N8X-X board with an AMD Barton 2500+, Win XP, 512 Ram. Is it possible to move these devices to another IRQ address? What is the standard address for USB? Any clarification on the sharing or any ideas where I can start to debug this problem would be great!
 
Manning1

I see what you mean. I think I will just stop using USB. I am thinking of buying a M-Audio Delta 44. I guess I will plug my PODXT directly into the breakout box and record that way. I'm sure it will sound just as good as USB right (with out the popping & clicking of course)? My sound card I have now is an old SB Live!. That is why I don't plug directly into it, it sounds chincey. Anyway thanks for the advice, I'll get over the USB thing.
 
before you spend more money.
read some more of my tips. 2 drives etc . dont put anything else in pci slots etc etc if you can other than the sound card.
also run diskbench from prorec.com on your hard drives.
if it reports 100 plus tracks you should be good.
you have a great pc there. just make sure its configured properly for multitracking. in particular make sure dma is enabled on your HD's.
sometimes win xp can get snarky in some situations and run the drives
at not the optimum rate for audio.
 
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