please help me!

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1. i attached a screen shot of the processes from task manager. sorry, I couldn't figure out how to copy it into this reply window. 2. Would disabling the wifi driver in the BIOS be different than just disabling it through right click then disable? thanks...Seth

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I have attached two more screen shots...sorry that they are attachments. when i copy and paste nothing shows up in the window. (pipelineaudio, i tried to use stashbox but their server was not responding) the one with asio4all in the title is the reaper device screen with the asio4all driver chosen the one with tascam in the title is with the tascam interface asio driver being used thanks to all of you for you're help pipelineaudio, I think I was just listening to you on reaperradio, cool song

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Just a thought Go to the Windows Device Manager and look at your Primary IDE Channel. Make sure this is set to 'DMA if Available' rather than 'PIO Only' This caught me out once and paralysed my system. OTOH I might be completely off base! Cheers Jed

Hi Seth, having all sorts of stuff running on your computer (obviously a HP in its hopelessly overloaded factory condition) may not be the culprit but it contributes to the problems in many cases. When I look on your Taskmanager process list screenshot, I see quite some stuff that shouldn't be running on an audio PC. It also shows only the processes running for your user account, if you click on "show processes from all users" the list will become even longer since all the system processes aren't even shown yet. There are at least 2 things running that are prone to cause trouble with realtime applications, namely Norton and Spybot's Teatimer. Most of the stuff with the HP prefix is not essential either and so you should really clean out your autostart entries. Alas I don't know if good old "msconfig" is still in Vista, that's what I would use to turn off most of that stuff (Start->Run->type 'msconfig'->go to the "Startup" tab and uncheck tons of stuff). Turn off "Indexing" and "Superfetch" as well. I personally would go even further and do a fresh install of XP (maybe use Dux' XP from this thread download link ) instead, with only the stuff you really need for DAW purposes. Vista isn't the first choice for a DAW and especially not with all the Vista/Aero/Office/Norton/Super-Duper-Tools that comes with a new computer.

Maybe try and not use your Tascam interface and just use the ASIO4ALL as your playback ouput for now. Play back a Reaper sample song, or a little piece that you already made, and see if the pops and clicks are gone... If they are, then it would be some settings in the Tascam interface.

I went through this a few years ago. One thing you should check is if you are using a cheapy built-in graphics adapter that uses your regular RAM instead of dedicated VRAM. I have a Compaq Presario and this was precisely the problem I had. I reconfigured with a generic AGP graphics adapter and everything is smooth as silk now. One way to check for this is to perform operations that cause a lot of graphics updates, such as dragging a window around the screen quickly while playing. If the glitches increase then there may be some contention with the graphics adapter. Randy