Techies ? Can I pick your brains ?

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Hi all, long time no post. I don’t get much web-time these days unfortunately, hope this finds everybody well. Heres my problem:

I was running out of disk space for recording projects, so I started planning a tidy up operation.. After some thought I decided to rebuild my machine. I had a dual boot setup with 98 and Win2000, and hardly ever used 2000. CD burning applications were refusing to work, so backing up was a problem. Then I managed to get my hands on an old SCSI 4GB disk with a SCSI card, from an old Pentium Pro. This gave me the space I needed to do a bit of rearranging. Most of the space was taken up with 32-bit WAV files, many not needed, so I reclaimed about 12-15GB fairly quickly, and started rebuilding my system disk.

What’s different in the new setup:

The SCSI Card and Disk
Iomega ZIP 650 CD-Writer
Iomegaware software
Windows 98 SE instead of the previous Windows 98 Plus (and 2000)
New Delta 44 98 driver from the M-Audio site.
Don’t have the drivers for the onboard soundcard
Different Virus Checker

What’s the same:

Cool.ini is there from the previous setup NOTE: Even with my dual-boot CEPro was only installed under 98 Plus.
Cool Edits Temp directories are on my two old IDE disks

Symptoms:

So far ? (All intermittent) Crashes, weird (very LOUD) crackles when recording and monitoring with CEP, just about everything CEP does is about 3 times slower than before, lots of skips, hanging, general frustration. I must stress that this is intermittant, but some of the noises are are ending up on the track that’s recording.


Questions:

1: Is the mere presence of that SCSI disk possibly the cause of some of this ?
2: Maybe it’s M-Audios new driver, anybody got any experience with that ?
3: Is taking a cool.ini file from a 98 Plus setup (plus w2k dual-boot) a bad idea ?


More Information (if needed):

DMA is not enabled.
RAM : Thought I had two 128s but the system tells me 192 or something, and not 256.
Pentium 111 833 or 733 (not sure)
3 hard disks: System 10GB, Audio 20GB, new backup SCSI disk 4GB
Anti-virus is always shut down when attempting audio work.



Maybe there is something here that would jump out at someone with the relevant knowledge and\or experience, heres hoping...

pAp
 
DMA should be enabled...

It's certainly possible the ini file is wrong.
 
Pull out the SCSI card, drink lots of fluids, and call me in the morning....

Seriously, have you tried removing that SCSI card and seeing if it changes anything? -> process of elimination?

and what kinda SCSI card is it?...

Nothing jumps out at me really... just the introduction to new hardware... which you've already stated.

Let me know anyways...
 
Alchuck: DMA now enabled..., I'm gonna put that .ini file somewhere and try a fresh one as well. Cheers.

Wildfire: SCSI card now removed. I won't really know if it's worked until I do some tracking, but I have a session tommorow evening. Thanks.


I'll post the results.


pAp
 
I just thought of something...I should be trying these things one at a time, process of elimination stylee.

I've got some suggestions from other site too, so I'll try and do each one separately and test them then.

I'll get back to you in about three days :)


Thanks again.

pAp
 
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