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Hello,

I have searched all the forum topics on this and found that there was not a post on the specific problem I'm experiencing. Everything works fine for about 20 min then the crackling starts. these are relatively small songs, 8-10 clips maybe 5 seconds each with some effects (avoiding reverb). I have tried a few optimizations to my os, "XP home", turned off graphic effects, turned off unnecessary services. The cpu meter seems around 10 - 40 % during the songs. The stuttering will stay even if I switch live "als" (songs) files. I can get it to stop by turning off live and starting a new instance. I have 2 instances running both will crackle until I shut them all down and start a new one.

SPECS: HP pavilion ze 1201 Laptop.

CPU: Athlon xp1400, 1.2 gz
RAM: 256mb not ddr
Sound Card: standard on board hp via
OS: XP Home
LIVE VERSION: 2.0.3

Thanks,
Brian

I assume you don't get a hd drive "overload" flickering red 'D' in the top r8 hand corner ? This would indicate your hd can't cope ... when have you last defragmented your hd ?

It does some times. This is probably an issue as well, but this happens even when I dont stress it enough for the "D" light.

Mbazzy wrote:I assume you don't get a hd drive "overload" flickering red 'D' in the top r8 hand corner ? This would indicate your hd can't cope ... when have you last defragmented your hd ?

ATTN: Brainputty
well the first problem is the VIA chipset, i myself having a HP b4 upgrading to a P4, the VIA chipset cannot handle much of the load, as i found out, if you kan try defragging and maybe purchasing a sound card, anything but the VIA is better, then going into BIOS and disabling it,
hope this helps
matias