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Hi fellas,
help needed here, I've moved recently from a p3 500 mhz running win98 to a p4 running Xp, man I can't believe how many times I have to restart it. Damn!! with my p3 I didn't experience any thing like this!!
I'ma layout muy setup so you can tell how to set it up properly.

the setup goes like this:

p4 northwood, Ht disabled
intel mainboard D875pbz
matrox p650 set at 16 bit colour
seagate 7200 rpm and 80 gb
Win xp home...
SteinbergWavelab4 (I'm having trouble with, under win 98 se there were no problems)

any help will be appreciated and again thanks in advance for your feed back..

Hello,

Well, if anything under XP it should be even more stable than before. The set-up shouldn't be any different in terms of how it was done before with 98. Perhaps you have a hardware problem such as faulty RAM.
I don't know for sure. Just a thought.

Good Luck in solving it!!!

i would set the matrox to 32bit, but the wavelab problem, i don't know....

what are the exact symptoms?

hi,
forgotten to add some more stuff at muy set up, I've got 1gb of kingston ram, the problem with Walelab occurs when playing with the 5000 sts sampler, all of the sudden every thing freezes, consequently I have to restart not even the option of ctrl+alt+del is available, since I'm not accustomed with dunno if that's the way of doing that, however I shall try to fix it.

PS: setting the graphic card to 32 bits it's not a good idea according to what people say, I my self have experiences flawness when set to 32 bits, again with Win Xp there's only two options : 16 bits or 32 bits.

cheers..

I think you will benefit from running the Matrox at 32 bit. There's actually less system stress with video at 24/32 bit than at 16 bit. I been using an old Matrox G400 dual monitor at 32 bit res for years, no problems. Wavelab definitely prefers the higher res.
Make sure you DISable bus mastering in the Matrox setup.

/dave

hi,
I think wavelab is the matter here, when playing solely with Scope, I mean minimax, samplers etc, every thing runs smooth , so could any one help me sort that out, I mean what's the optimal configuration. Crackles occur during playback and recording, so there's something I not doing well here, anyway help will be appreciated, thanks in advance for your feedback...

Wavelab has always been dodgy for me under XP. I haven't tried the newer version if any, but 3 and 4 never worked well hereé

Don't know Wavelab at all, but just as a test have you tried switching from ASIO to Wave drivers etc ?

hi,
yes indeed I did that, from ASIO to wave etc.., same problem, thanks all for your feedback anyway, I'll try to sort that out and I'll tell you what went wrong, cheers..