Mike - What DPC numbers are you seeing? There are several knowledge base articles on the Flex site that get pretty detained on various things to look at.
When you find the troublemaker it will look so simple, "of course" is the usual thought that I have. I am not a windows expert. I long for the sort of tools that we had when I was working (IBM mainframes), but they did cost tens of thousands of dollars each. Ken AC0HO On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Ruttenberg <mjruttenb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Ken > > It is a relatively clean install. I have PSDR, N1MM, VAC, MixW, JT65HF, > VE7CC ARUser. Windows Updates are off. > > AVG Free and ZoneAlarm. AVG is disabled manually for a bit of improvement. > > DPC is a bit better with wireless turned of but then I am flying blind. I > have a nano wireless USB adaptor (Edimax) but it turns out that if I turn > off the main (internal) wireless then the USB one doesn't work either so I > couldn't use the USB one without the internal one grabbing the signal > making the USB one redundant. > > On winXP I used to have Gboost but it seems to no longer be supported as I > installed it and dialling home fails and the forum on the Gboost site says > closed. > > Frustrated and missing CQWW :( 9 out of every 10 loads ups don't start > successfully and the 1 that does work usually bombs out with an error. > > Mike > G7TWC > > > On 26 Oct 2013, at 21:58, Ken Akin <kena...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Mike - > > > > What else is running on the PCs. Any bloat ware? Anti-virus packages? > Page file active? And so on. > > > > I took the simple way out, my radio PC is a clean build (from MS Disk) > so no extras. Running PSDR, VAC, FlDigi and Ham Call. I start Explorer only > when I need to fetch new software, Flex and FlDigi updates. I do not let > Microsoft (or anybody else) install updates automatically. > > > > It solves a lot of problems. My background included performance > measurement and planning (in IBM mainframes). I just prefer avoiding excess > tasks. > > > > 73 > > > > Ken AC0HO > > > > > >> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Michael Ruttenberg < > mjruttenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all > >> > >> Maybe someone can point me in the right direction. > >> > >> Using PSDR 2.6.4 with a Flex 3000. > >> VAC (full version) 4.12 > >> 4gb RAM Lenovo T420 laptop (with a relatively flimsy Firewire 800 port > >> installed, new Firewire 400 Expresscard on the way but not yet arrived). > >> Win7 Pro. > >> Same issue on Dell Latitude D630 (Firewire 800 port). WinXP SP3 with 1gb > >> RAM. Samsung SSD. > >> > >> The Line1 and Line 2 VAC lines playback and record are set in Sounds to > 2 > >> Channel 96000hz audio as per > >> http://kc.flexradio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50504.aspx. > >> > >> N1MM v13.10.1 > >> > >> My buffers are set as follows: > >> Flex measured Sampling rate: 48khz, buffer size 1024, safe mode 1 (low > >> latency was no different behaviour) > >> > >> PSDR Audio -> Primary: buffer size 1024, sample rate 48000 (was same > >> behaviour when 2048 / 96000) > >> PSDR Audio -> VAC1: Windows WDM-KS, buffer size 1024, 48000 > >> PSDR DSP -> Options: all 5 buffers set to 1024 > >> > >> PSDR runs on the win7 machine at around 9% CPU. > >> > >> Basically, when I click Buck on N1MM (or open any new browser window) I > get > >> crackly audio audible on the headphones, and sometimes PSDR crashes > >> entirely (can't remember the error but it says Continue/Quit and then I > >> need to reboot to restart PSDR). > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > >> Mike > >> G7TWC > >> _______________________________________________ > >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
