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#1

Ladies and gentlemen,

I hope that Bachido has brought some light into your life, and maybe makes your Christmas a little brighter.

My friends, Christmas is tomorrow, and if you have the capabilities, you can make my Christmas bright and cheerful.

I present to you the following.

Windows 7 64 bit. Very few programs running (just some background things like Dropbox, etc) and a latency that makes my audio screech to a hault. I am completely baffled.

So, that’s where I’m at. Completely out of ideas, and the next course I’m thinking of is reinstalling with the 32 bit version. This is probably what I’ll end up doing for Christmas tomorrow, so if anyone has any ideas, you might make a profound difference on the course of my holiday.

Thanks to all! :slight_smile:
Kyle

#2

The things missing in the post:
PC specs, including audio hardware.
Drivers versions (are they obtained from manufacturers site?)
Programs not running

#3

I think you’ve got some bad drivers. You said you have audio issues when just listening to music, which is strange. Usually problems arise when you try to make music using a sequencer.

In any case, try disconnecting any accessories you have like the mouse and keyboard. Mice will always cause an amount of DPC when used and if yours is bad, it could be the source.

I have a laptop and it was behaving very strange so that I got 1 FPS in games. Turns out it had a very strange function for the fan control. Whenever you hit the threshold in temperature, it started generating lots of DPC which caused the computer to suffocate. I had lowered the threshold to get the fan going at a lower temperature. In any case I had to change back.

Just sayin that some of your hardware is doing this, not 64 bit Windows 7.

#4

6 a.m. Christmas morning.
No shadows,
No reflections here.
Starin’ burned out eyes
at this red stained app.

ahem well, it’s actually 9am, but MarilynM came to mind. :stuck_out_tongue:

Though I just tried disconnecting the exterior peripherals to no avail, it’s somewhat heartening to know that it’s hardware. Of course, I already installed drivers for the GPU and sound card, but actually, I didn’t consider drivers for the CPU 'n such. Gonna see if there are any out there now.

KH: Ah yes, my mistake

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MH
Gigabyte EP45-UD3z
1024MB GeForce GTX 285
SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio

#5

I had similar problems when migrating to 7 64 a couple of years ago.
My SB X-Fi xtreme audio was producing strange echoed squeezing effect on volume starting at a bit above minimum.
No luck with SB Live series either. It had another effect, like a slight overdrive all the time.
So I gave up with any Sound Blaster and had to turn on internal Realtek HD.

So… I wish you good luck :smiley:

#6

Hmmm… very odd. Nothing changes when I disable SB audio. :-S

Updated the CPU and other mobo stuff, absolutely no difference. Changed ACHI to IDE and back, all the same.

The final thing I’m thinking of is updating the BIOS (On F5, and latest safe/stable version is F11). Not sure if that’ll open another can of worms… Thoughts?

#7

The general thumb rule is that if you have some unexplainable problem, update BIOS.

If everything is working fine you don’t need to, unless told so specifically.

You might wanna try out this site: http://www.blackviper.com/

I always use his tips. Scroll down to Windows 7. Make note of what services you change, because you might turn off something that is required by something later.

You might even find your own problem there.

#8

Oooh, I see, I see. That is enlightening.

Alrighty, here I go! Flashing away! (with pants on, of course) :slight_smile:

#9

Whew!! Well, it only took about 3 hours to get the bloody BIOS update bootable, but the deed has been done. Latency does spike up at times, but I can’t hear any pop/click or lag in audio (Only once just now). Because the audio problems was the only sign of latency (everything else is smooth), if that is squared away, I’ll declare victory and let the real Christmas start!

Many thanks Karl and KH! :slight_smile:

… and hopefully I didn’t jinx things with this post. :wink:

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