Next thing I would do is to exmine the IRQ table for my computer and see if there are some IRQ *shares* that may be causing interrupts or the like.

Don't take Window's work for it, it will report an OK if every single device on the computer were on the same IRQ number. What we are looking for here is something to do with your MIDI and possibly sound drivers sharing the same IRQ with another of your high bandwidth devices, such as the Video or Network card.

If you don't know how to check the IRQ table for your given OS, you can do a websearch to find out the routine. You can also copy and paste results reported into a post here if you need help analyzing (ok, John, "analysing") the report. Just don't include all those long lists of virtual hardware, just inlude the first part that has actual hardware devices listed.

Pay attention to shares, which are two or more devices on the same IRQ number.

And be advised that we can no longer manually change the IRQ settings as we could with some of the fine older windows operating systems. Sometimes it is necessary to move PCI cards around and see if ACPI puts something on another IRQ.


--Mac

PGmusic FAQs, Tutorials and Updates! click here

You must be Audiominds.
www.audiominds.com