Problem
I’ve got this annoying problem. I “bought” a Dell Dimension XPS Gen4 (through Employee Purchase Program). I slammed my Audiophile 24/96 into it and everything was fine until I turned ASIO on. Problem is that it’s fine except that it gets a hickup every two minutes or so for no apparent reason. Has nothing with CPU load to do since it has happened with as low as <10% CPU usage.
I don’t think there is any other guides out there that I haven’t tried. Funny thing is that the problem doesn’t get better or worse no matter what I try. I’ve tried 3 different drivers, I’ve tried multiple programs. Renoise, Winamp with ASIO plugin, z3ta+ standalone etc. etc. I’ve moved the card around to all available PCI slots, nothing changed. I turned off every service not being used, I tweaked the registry, I changed computer type to Standard PC and MPS Uniprocessor and through all that nothing changed. Which sounds really weird to me. (and I’m tech by day) I’ve reinstalled the OS multiple times.
BTW, M-audio doesn’t have a clue. They can’t even tell me if they have had problems with Intel 925XE chipsets before.
Answer (Haplo found a solution by himself… Do your benefit with it):
Found a solution to my problem. Funny thing is that RME has found something about the problem but apparently not M-audio. So maybe it’s an RME card next time.
Downloaded Intel Acceleration Application from Intel and the problem went away.