Re: Computer Pops???
- From: Peter Larsen <SPAMSHIELD_plarsen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:38:20 +0100
Larry wrote:
> I picked up an older server that had never been put online from a
> business that went bankrupt. My idea was to set it up with
> Gigastudio to just run drum sounds.
> Pentium III 450 MHz.
Are you sure it is a p3, not that it matters as much as clock frequency
does, but 450 Mhz sounds like a p2 spec to me, I may be wrong.
> Rack for five SCSI drives, populated with two 9.5 gig Seagates
Thre questions:
is it a pci controller?
is it a raid controller?
how are the drives configured?
> one half gig memory
> Windows XP, service pack two, home edition
Why did you remove the NT4 it most probably came with?
> Aardvark Direct Pro LX-6 soundcard
Oh, that one, it is excellent
(== huh?- never heard about it ... O;-) .... )
> It does that chore well, but the sound is
> polluted with pops.
I would not call that well, unless of course I was in fear of
disouraging it. To put it kindly the machine may have alternative
abilities that are more pronounced in other fields of use.
> When you boot up the computer, there is one loud
> speaker shredding pop,
This is because it does, it is a problem for you because you have not
put an attenuator on the input of the power amp, 12 to 20 dB is a
probably useful range.
> then a much milder pop about every three to five seconds.
> This is without loading up any software at all except
> the OS. Any ideas what could be causing this?
For a first guess: the scsi controller polling the scsi bus perhaps
because the OS asked it to check for the existence of a CD-rom if the
CD-rom drive is scsi and because autoplay is enabled.
> I've updated all the drivers and the BIOS.
Updating the bios was the good idea, removing the OS it is asasumed to
have had was not. Do you have the option of re-installing it?
> I've heard clicks and pops can be caused by buffer size
> problems, so I've tried changing them without effect.
> It makes sense that this wouldn't solve the problem,
> since I don't have to load my music software
> to get the pops.
You are quite right. What you can do is to try removing the
scsi-controller, if pci, and put a disk on the assumed mobo IDE
controller, that is about the only way to ascertain whether it is the
scsi controller that causes the issue.
> Thanks for your time and your help.
For use as a musical instrument it will always be a waste of mains
power, if you want to use it, then set it up for what it is possibly
good at: file server with redundant storage. But if it has a hardware
raid 5 controller, and thus is worth using for it, if you can afford
three large scsi disks, then it is also possibly ebayable, at least the
controller is likely to be.
> Larry Bellinger
Kind regards
Peter Larsen
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