Hi Telstar,

Thanks for your suggestions. I am working again with taskmanager. Processor duty only ecceeds the 5% barrier for XXengine3 and XXengine3.exe.
All the other processes about never pass the 2% line wile the average of the rest of the processes is a fraction of a percent.
I'll concentrate on disc activities and and prioryties. See what it delivers..

Ed

Hi All,

Before I started this thread, and after installation the OS, I did not install any anti-virusprogram. Switched off Defender too. First time I did Yesterday because of a rongish understanding of Telstar's reply. After the install , of the A-virusprogram, I did a total scan and uninstalled the program again.
Yes Peter, sorry I did not tell you about the virtual memory. I had switched it off already before I started this thread, some two weeks ago.
I have to leave the house now, and will send some screenshots and loggings, no, no leggings, later in the evening.
Thanks all for the compassion,

Ed

Hi Ivo,

All ideas are welcome.
Think I did already 97% of all the things I can do, but who knows.
 Checking again and again will bring hopely the solution!

Telstar,

I did a complete viruscheck. Nada!
No infections whatsoever found.
Thanks for the help,

Ed

Hi Telstar,

Thanks for your remarks!. Asus drivers are reasonable weak, the 64bit drivers, the very latest though still beta, exelled over the vista 32 drivers. The exe update utillity works smooth, but prone to virusses of course. I wil do a thorough viruscheck tonight, hopen to find some bug or whatever. I must say, I had the same problems with the former Vista-setup. The dropout thing....
The computer is not online and not connected to my network or the internet. But it has been for a short time for updating W7 after the istall!
Most of the drivers and stuf I needed was brought into the cumputer with a USB-stick.
The sevices-list changes in a weird way, it grows and get smaller all the time with a lot of doubles. Looks like infection indeed. I dive in it right away and let you know what I find.
Thanks for your advice,

Ed

Hi Johan, Hi Peter,

I did kill vista/w7 like peter advised. In fact, it is one of the first things I do after a good working fresh install. In my case I have eventually put some more disc-activities from automatic to manually.
Yesterday late night I did put the latest bios in my little Intel-board, fiddeld with the PCI latency settings, switched on Hpet in the bios, and some more crazy things. But no gain! Too much disc activity still! Causing stops. I tried without Hyperthreading as well. No effect!
Johan, my new setup is one 2.5 inch sata disc with both XXhi-end and W7 Ultimate 64bits on sata 0. A second sata-disc with the music on it on the second sata connection on the board. So both intern!
My momentary dac , 24/192, is the PCI audiocard from ASUS, the Xonar essence st, works pretty good, even with the four times upsampling and Arc Prediction.
Today I even played with a seperate USB mediaplayer as extern musiccontainer disc, made regrettably no difference in the dropout behaviour.
In the meantime I have forgotten what I did more, instead of getting to bed on a reasonable time. But I fancy playing around with the toys, so.....
Hope you(and I) will find a solution eventually.
Keep your ears open!!!
Regards,
Ed

 

Hi Peter,

..and forget about the ticks. I am affraid they were not related to the stops. They didn't show up the last two days or so.

Ed

Hi Peter,
Maybe good to know.....
The dropout behaviour is unchanged when I uncheck double and quad.
Strength!

Ed

Hi Peter,

The problem , halts (half- to five and more seconds) in the middle of tracks, is still there. It happens on a very irregular base, sometimes one halt per track, another time three or four stops. It is very random.
I would however advice you not to bother anymore, i'll just wait for y5, and see what happens then.
Somehow I feel it will solve itselves.

Thanks so far,

Ed


 

Hi Peter,

Keep your beer in the fridge for the coming four hours or so.
Dont ruin your brains by thinking about stops or glitches!
I think I am getting warm by having changed my priority settings from low to below normal and from realtime to high.
Went with split setting back to 125. 75 was not the solution afterall.
Life goes on...

Nice Sunday evening and thanks again for the effort,

Ed

Peter,

I am sorry, it is still there, the stopping, even at setting 50mb.
We move on..

ED

Hi Peter ,

I went a lot further with the : "split file" setting.
Put it on 75! I had only played with settings between 100 and 200.
I think it is a solution for me.(until now?)
I checked running time OSD text and OSD text again and it still works. No stops for about a whole hour! And what about ticks? I am not shure yet.
I keep you informed,

Ed

Hi Peter,
Yes, I had it (the stops) on my Vista PC on Y3. Ididn't have Y4 on it! I took it apart for that reason..
My Vista PC is momentarely spread in parts all over my table. I am looking for solutions first on my W7 thing. If that one will not end up working properly think about building a faster computer, again mini-ITX(I like the size)with a Pentium Core2 duo 7000 or 8000 line.
Although I am affraid not to get it cooled without a lot of fuzz! Passive cooling can be perfecly done with the Atoms.
BUT, it has always worked flawlessly soundwise, though a bit slowish, and I was happy with that.
I toggled with split file size without succes.
I did not have the stops with the dddac, I used that one before the Y versions.
We just move on..

Ed

Hi Peter,
Update.....
Unfortunately I had some more halts from about one second during the last hour.
My music is stored in FLAC.
Gr,

Ed

Hi Johan,

I work with WD caviar blue, 5400 speed, 8MBcash. Higher is more noise in starting, stopping, running, parking and seek. The caviars don,t park on zero( I think) so there is less movement of the head mechanisme. And if you want realy dead quiet discs, than choose for the 2.5 inches, the laptop ones. You will not be aware the is a disc(discs) in your computer! Negative thing is, the smaller ones are more expensive than their bigger brothers. But if you can live with 320gig ones, they are quite affordable.

Ed