Cubase SX + SFP 3.1a fiability problem

[bigdave]

Hardware:
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- MSI K766 Pro2
- All integrated perpherals desactived (Game,Music,Parrallel,Serials)
- ACPI and PNP OS desactived.
- Athlon XP 1800+
- 512 Mb DDRAM
- SCSI Adaptec 19160 on slot 2
- 2 SCSI Drives Ultra160 FAT32
- ATI Radeon 8500 with last certified driver.
- Netgear Ethernet controler on slot 3
- Luna II on slot 4
- Pulsar Pro I on slot 5 (linked to Luna II of course).
- SB Live 5.1 on slot 6.
- Patch Midi Edirol UM-880 on USB port.

Software:
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- XP Home with All Updates in Standard Mode (No ACPI).
- All optimisations of XP done (go to http://www.musicxp.net/)
- SFP 3.1a (XTC Mode not actived and Lower ULLI Latency Mode)
- Cubase SX 1.02

Creamware Project :
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- Luna Analog source on ASIO 24bit Dest 1L&1R
- Sequencer Midi Source on miniscope Linked to ASIO 2L
- Pulsar Midi A source on Sequence Midi Dest 1
- Asio 24 bit Source linked on Pulsar Analog dest.

Cubase Project :
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- 2 Audio tracks with Compressor and DaTube.
- 1 Midi Track

Problem :
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When Cycling on 4 bars i've got a lot of pop,clicks and fucking loss of sync. Worth if i add a VSTi (a1 for example).
I Think I tried all possibilities of tuning numbers and length of buffers, even expert tuning of Asio drivers.
Problem is still the same

[Eurocide]

Just to be very sure:
Does your HD really run in DMA mode?

Although you set "DMA if possible", XP likes to change it back to "PIO only" on certain mainboards.
Maybe your mobo is one of them?

EC-HQ

[bigdave]

Thanx for reading and helping !

DMA : where do u tune this ? I've got only to SCSI drives. (DMA isn't only for IDE ? )

[subhuman]

There is a problem with SCSI under WinXP. This will be fixed in the upcoming Service Pack 1. (<a href=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4152>links in this article for fixes and more info</a>)

[subhuman]

And if your problem isn't related to that, it is more than likely related to your motherboard: unfortunately, you miss the most important letter of the model number for your board - is it a Via or an Nforce?

Via+scsi=bad (up until KT400 at least), as the VIA has a low performing PCI bus.

nForce+MSI ... nforce also had PCI bus issues that ASUS have released an updated bios to fix on thier nForce boards. Not sure if MSI did, but you may want to download the latest bios for your motherboard, and flash it.

Finally... make sure you have the latest chipset/motherboard drivers for your board! For nvidia/nforce get these from http://www.nvidia.com - for via from http://www.viaarena.com