Help with DiO 2448 & Panasonic 3700

Yes this is the rigth newsgroup, welcome home Curt. Try to find an old
IVIE handheld octave band analyzer, it is a very practical tool. Next
time you drop by then we should have more time, it was great fun.

This is supposed to work. My 3800 and my DiO likes one another. The DiO
and my Sony dislikes one another.

Hmmm ....

No, something is too busy using bus time in the winputer. If it is a
marginal winputer, then you might want to make it a linputer instead,
someone recently reported flawless operation with a linputer and that
card. But that too could be an os config issue.

It is as good as their manuals. I have always ended up feeling I was
foolish in the first place and just had failed to understand the manual.
But then - I still do not know what EASI blah blah is, so perhaps
something is not explained all that good.

OK, time to go error searching. Install audiograbber, it is a great
benchmark software. You should have it grabbing flawlessly at X8 with 40
percent CPU or less, if it can not do that, then there is something that
is not well optimized.

Does the time of the transfered audio match the duration of the audio on
tape?

How is the machine configured? - CPU, number of harddisks, graphics card
and graphics mode, additional cards.

Things to try:

1) physically remove all expansion cards that are not needed, a
busmaster card by definition has right to access the bus without asking
the CPU, and not all busmaster cards release the bus properly. Basically
that is the cause of the problem.

2) disable USB.

3) if NIC present, then configure it to use minimum CPU via its own
setup software, windows defaults to configure nics for max performance.

4) you love 800 by 600 in 256 colours. Trust me.

5) have the windows swapfile - aka known as pagefile - on a different
physical drive than the one the OS is on. Toss tempfiles thataway too,
just add a temp-variable definition to autoexec.bat if win9x. If there
is only one physical drive in the machine, then insert another, there is
imo no such thing as a daw with less than two physical drives.

6) the windows swapfile - aka known as pagefile - should have a fixed
size. Twice the system ram is a good guess.

7) the system should have free physical ram under normal operation. It
may be required to tweak the vcache settings to ensure that and to keep
caching overhead low in case there is more than 128 megabytes physical
ram in the machine. A max setting of 96 megabytes and a min setting of
24 megabytes works well on a machine with 192 megabytes ram running Cool
Edit 2000. A large minimum size keeps the system fast in case it has to
swap anyway.

8) if the graphics card is a PCI card then it may be a good idea to
reduce hardware accelleration one step, but the main issue has already
been addressed by reducing the system bandwidth it will use in p

Aw, Shucks.  Good to hear form you Peter.  Yeah- that was fun running into
you over in Christiania.  The rest of the tour went smoothly.  Luckily, we
flew home on the 10th... Thru NYC!

The noises appear when monitoring Spdif in at Analog out- I haven't even
gotten to the point of running any software.

I have a 500 Mhz Celeron running Win98, 128 Meg. Only 2 pci slots in this
thing, one for Soundcard and one for CD-R.  USB for my Scanner & DSL.
Neither of which is on when trying to monitor the DAT.

I will print out your list and get to work and report back.  Thanks so much
for a starting point.

Curt.