"dale" wrote in message roups.com...
XP is in its own seperate partition (10GB) and my audio +
Cubase are allocated to a second 80GB drive. Both drives are on
seperate IDE channels to the CD-Roms and are running in DMA mode. Both
drives are IDE.

doesn't the application and it's operating system need to be on the
same partition/drive???

this is how I set up my audio,,,seperate partition with stripped down
OS tweaked for audio with audio software only loaded on it with no
internet usage when using audio app's.

dale

I don't think so. It was on the same drive before and I still had the
popping problem. I tried disabling the network card, that did nothing.
I did have a bit more success with disabling AVG and all its
processes, I managed to run Cubase happily for half and hour without
any clicks whatsoever. If someone could please answer my question
about my chip - is it actually a 3 gig?

Cheers

Owen