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This is a really weird time consuming problem and I can't seem to narrow it down since i did to much to my lappy in a short amount of time. But any help would be great lads!

Specs: Windows XP Pro w/ Most Services Disabled - Only 13 Running at Startup
HP Pavilion dv8210us AMD64 1.8GHz 2GB RAM Haven't Updated all Drivers
Live 7.0.3
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra w/ Newest Drivers
Pluggo Runtime 3.6.1 running Ms. Pinky VST's

After installing the updated M-Audio Driver, my lappy crashed and I decided to reboot then iron out the kinks. I installed XP Pro and removed all the unnecessary services. Installed M-Audio Driver and Live 7.0.2. All was fine. Installed 7.0.3 and Pluggo. I cant say if this set up was fine because within two days I was working on Vinyl w/ Ms. Pinky.

A couple times already, If I let my computer 1. Reach 80% CPU 2. Idle for just a while: My computer goes unresponsive I have to restart bt holding down the power button. Turn it back on and the screen is completely blank!!

I contacted HP about it. Has something to do with the RAM not clearing. Told me to reseat my RAM [http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... 372748_doc] and that should take care of it. It did, but this issue keeps coming up.

I've also had 3 Buffer Overruns so far. 2 using Ms. Pinky to load the root folder. One Windows didn't tell me.

And I've had the Blue Screen of Death once. M-Audio Driver. Just to let you know. Though I hold to think that was an Effect and not a Cause.

Any help or If you guys want mt to post something else up... Let me know! I'm going to see ig any of the other forums have something about this... Though Live's has always been the best with me!![/b]

It seems like the BSOD was useful this time.

There seems to be a lag between Live and the M-Audio Interface. The Interface trying to catch up.

Also, when connecting the Interface after Windows starts up [after Installing it of course], it replaces the working driver with a M-Audio Runtime DF driver. That does absolutely nothing!!

I'll be heading with them to see if we can figure anything out.

If anyone else has this or a related Hangup problem; Let me know.

And if not, well: The post is here for reference. If I get anything else, i'll post it up!

phatcrazesk8er wrote:Specs: Windows XP Pro w/ Most Services Disabled - Only 13 Running at Startup

I'll bet that's the root of your problem right there. Most of the "optimizations" aren't necessary, and in some cases can cause serious problems.

There's only four optimizations I recommend for a Windows box;

1) Set your page file to a fixed size (1.5 x your physical RAM), and move it off your OS drive/partition if possible
2) Change processor scheduling (Control panel/system/advanced/advanced) to background services
3) Turn off indexing on all drives
4) Turn off any power conservation or power management schemes

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