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« Reply #225 on: October 11, 2010, 10:37:26 pm »

So I was lucky to be able to boot eh ? Well, that's what I thought.
But Brian, or you may be able to boot in safe mode (with Command Prompt !) and then apply Always Off, or you hopefully can restore things to boot into "last settings that worked" (similar).

For evrybody : don't do these things unless you feel you are comfortable with it. Do like me, and Google for whatever it is you may be unsure about. Read stuff about "not being able to boot", and next decide whether you take your chances. I didn't say it without a reason (let's see whether I can still boot"). I just read about it, and thought "oh well" (a complete reinstall in my mind). But still, I would have hated myself if it would have gone wrong. But at least I knew what could happen.

I can only repeat it : when you are not comfortable with this, just sit it out, and wait for all had been determined as a good thing to do.

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PS: Might you be able to boot in Safe Mode ... that bcdedit.exe is in c:\windows\system32\. You have to go there when no "paths" hve been defined,and you do this by the CD command (Change Directory).
Good luck for now !
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« Reply #226 on: October 11, 2010, 11:10:34 pm »

Thanks Mani. Am working on a fresh install now. Did I say something earlier today about being educable?

Anyway, its good for me to learn, however marginally, this sh*t!

You see, today is Columbus day here in the US, so I had too much time on my hands.....

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« Reply #227 on: October 12, 2010, 12:14:47 am »

I tried everything you suggested in your last post, I even had my wife, a former DOS programmer give it a try, all to no avail. Am reinstalling now. Really, this is good experience for when I partition the desktop with a Roy inspired version of things.

Anyway, until this happened, all the "Nick and Marcin" tweaks I had applied from this thread improved SQ quite substantially........ now what the hell was it that I did?????  Happy
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« Reply #228 on: October 12, 2010, 12:42:54 am »

Sorry to hear that boleary. As you said, take it as a learning experience.

Without meaning to rub things in, I'm close to heaven right now. I still have my W7 SSD attached and can easily switch between W7 and W2008 (essentially Vista) via the BIOS. The W7 SSD has all the tweaks applied, up to and including RAMDisk, but not the latest tweaks suggested by Nick. The W2008 SSD has pretty much everything.

I cannot believe that up until this weekend I had been putting up with such second-rate sound from the W7 SSD. What really surprises me though is the difference in clarity between W7 and W2008. The latter is much tighter and clearer, and just sounds real. I am convinced this was not the case before applying Nick's latest tweaks. I strongly advise anyone who feels Vista is giving them too much bass to try these tweaks.

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« Reply #229 on: October 12, 2010, 01:34:34 am »

Mani, do you use 64-bit or 32-bit W2008? And for W7?
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« Reply #230 on: October 12, 2010, 09:35:30 am »

I strongly advise anyone who feels Vista is giving them too much bass to try these tweaks.
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Can you mani please explain it again with some screenshots?

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« Reply #231 on: October 12, 2010, 09:55:22 am »

Mani, do you use 64-bit or 32-bit W2008? And for W7?

Hi Josef. 64-bit in both cases. The rationale here is that I want to use 8GB of RAM and allocate 4GB to RAMDisk. (I have a few hires albums that take ~3.5GB with all tracks loaded.)

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« Reply #232 on: October 12, 2010, 09:58:05 am »

Can you mani please explain it again with some screenshots?

Hi Gerard. Do you mean how to use the MS Interrupt-Affinity Policy Tool? If so, I'd be happy to do this when I'm back home this evening. It's pretty straight forward, and Nick's document helps a lot.

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« Reply #233 on: October 12, 2010, 10:06:20 am »

Can you mani please explain it again with some screenshots?

Hi Gerard. Do you mean how to use the MS Interrupt-Affinity Policy Tool? If so, I'd be happy to do this when I'm back home this evening. It's pretty straight forward, and Nick's document helps a lot.

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   For others who are thinking of doing this, Telstar's suggestion worked for me - "bcdedit.exe /set nx AlwaysOff” 



If you would like to do that and also this thing that Nick came up with. Do not now what to do with this.


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« Reply #234 on: October 12, 2010, 10:19:36 am »

Ah, OK. The latter (switching DEP off) is pretty straight forward also:

1. Make sure you're running in Administrator mode.
2. click the Windows Start button and type 'cmd' in the search field - a black command line box should appear
3. now type bcdedit.exe /set nx AlwaysOff in the command line and press enter

That's it! It worked for me on both W7 and W2008.

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« Reply #235 on: October 12, 2010, 10:21:32 am »

Sorry to hear that boleary. As you said, take it as a learning experience.

Without meaning to rub things in, I'm close to heaven right now. I still have my W7 SSD attached and can easily switch between W7 and W2008 (essentially Vista) via the BIOS. The W7 SSD has all the tweaks applied, up to and including RAMDisk, but not the latest tweaks suggested by Nick. The W2008 SSD has pretty much everything.

I cannot believe that up until this weekend I had been putting up with such second-rate sound from the W7 SSD. What really surprises me though is the difference in clarity between W7 and W2008. The latter is much tighter and clearer, and just sounds real. I am convinced this was not the case before applying Nick's latest tweaks. I strongly advise anyone who feels Vista is giving them too much bass to try these tweaks.

Mani.

Hi Mani,

Jealous !  Happy  Wanna  know how close you are to the heaven. Can you please share with us on how you set RAMDISK up in a dummy version. I am a basic PC user   sign0144qp7

I know it takes time but I will wait.


Thanks in advance.
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« Reply #236 on: October 12, 2010, 11:24:45 am »

I've turned DEP off, and implemented most of the tweaks in this thread, and the SFS still has an affect on the sound! When someone can explain why this is the case, I'll be happy.
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Yes, I can confirm that SFS matters a lot! This is still the most influential factor! I noticed during optimisations, that I needed greater SFS values, while my system was becoming faster and faster. Finally, after all optimisations, I need SFS at 350 MB (even 450MB). Anything lower than 300 MB is harsh, edgy, dry, just wrong! Yes, there is slightly better control, but you lose timbre, great depth of soundstage, dynamics and sound is, like my girlfriend said, buzzy. So according to my experiences, I assume that large SFS values are the best once your system is very fast. I think that on a regular OS installation, without optimisations, big SFS values sounded clumsy, because system wasn't able to process big chunks of data fast enough. That's not the case now. I'd really appreciate if someone could perform full optimisation (I'm writing tutorial in a moment) and try large SFS. But nothing is perfect and with that high SFS values, playback stops after few minutes with message - 'OutOfMemory Exception'. Peter, is it possible for XXHE to release some memory while playing? Does it have to consume more and more memory during playback? I mean the memory that was needed for previous track.

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« Reply #237 on: October 12, 2010, 11:38:56 am »

Notice though this does not count for things you start during playback, because at that moment this is not under my control.

This is where setting IRQ affinities might prove useful. And not just what you start during playback, but what gets started automatically without your knowing, e.g. RAMDisk making calls.

Just a thought...

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« Reply #238 on: October 12, 2010, 11:44:06 am »

I noticed during optimisations, that I needed greater SFS values, while my system was becoming faster and faster. Finally, after all optimisations, I need SFS at 350 MB (even 450MB). Anything lower than 300 MB is harsh, edgy, dry, just wrong!

Interesting. But again, this is no doubt very system-dependent. As you know, I'm tuning my system by comparing playback of recorded 24/192 to the original vinyl (also being fed through the ADC/DAC). And here the sweetspot is 50 now.

But I agree - the SFS still plays a big factor in sound. Surely it shouldn't, now that XX sits in RAM (and 'Copy to XX-drive' is active). Someone, anyone, please. please offer at least an explanation of what might be causing this!

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« Reply #239 on: October 12, 2010, 11:44:43 am »

Notice though this does not count for things you start during playback, because at that moment this is not under my control.

This is where setting IRQ affinities might prove useful. And not just what you start during playback, but what gets started automatically without your knowing, e.g. RAMDisk making calls.

Mani - True. But still, if this were under program control (hence looking at the running processes and all), I'd still miss the not-yet-running processes.
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A: W-Y-R-G, B: *W-G* USB 1m00 -> Phisolator 24/768 Phasure NOS1a/G3 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (16ms) -> B'ASS Current Amplifier -> Blaxius*^2.5* A:B-G, B:B-G Interlink -> Orelo MKII Active Open Baffle Horn Speakers. ET^2 Ethernet from Mach III to Music Server PC (RDC Control).
Removed Switching Supplies from everywhere (also from the PC).

For a general PC :
W10-10586.0 - May 2016 (2.05+)
*XXHighEnd PC -> I7 3930k with Hyperthreading On (12 cores)* @~500MHz, 16GB, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit build 10586.0 from RAM, music on LAN / Engine#4 Adaptive Mode / Q1/-/3/4/5 = 14/-/1/1/1 / Q1Factor = 1 / Dev.Buffer = 4096 / ClockRes = 1ms / Memory = Straight Contiguous / Include Garbage Collect / SFS = 0.10  (max 60) / not Invert / Phase Alignment Off / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Realtime / Scheme = Core 3-5 / Not Switch Processors during Playback = Off/ Playback Drive none (see OS from RAM) / UnAttended (Just Start) / Always Copy to XX Drive (see OS from RAM) / All Services Off / Keep LAN - Not Persist / WallPaper On / OSD On / Running Time Off / Minimize OS / XTweaks : Balanced Load = *43* / Nervous Rate = 1 / Cool when Idle = 1 / Provide Stable Power = 1 / Utilize Cores always = 1 / Time Performance Index = *Optimal* / Time Stability = *Stable* / Custom Filter *Low* 705600 / -> USB3 *from MoBo* -> Clairixa USB 15cm -> Intona Isolator -> Clairixa USB 1m80 -> 24/768 Phasure NOS1a 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (4ms) -> Blaxius BNC interlink *-> B'ASS Current Amplifier /w Level4 -> Blaxius Interlink* -> Orelo MKII Active Open Baffle Horn Speakers.
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