Hey ninjagaijin, I have a very similar pc at home. My buffer is set to 5 ms, no dropouts and I always have antivirus running in the background - it's very stable.
The same processor, 1GB of RAM, so only a little more, but I have installed only SP2, never dealt with SP3. I'm on Win XP Pro.
My suggestions would be:
If it's possible, try uninstalling the SP3 and running the program with SP2 only. It's true that with a library as big as yours you need a lot of RAM, but maybe at first try to take a part from your library, put it in the program and see how it runs?

Hi Ninjagaijin,

Although more RAM can definitely help with a large library, it doesn't necessarily help with dropouts... As you are on XP, I suggest running a RATT report to see if you can identify problem drivers. Information on this is here: serato.com

Copy and paste the report into here when you are done.

Cheers

I'm assuming your running on mixed RAM chips if you are running a 256? You should always run matched pairs of RAM, not mix and match different sizes.

I have just bought 2x Kingston 1GB DDR333 PC2700 RAM for my wheezy puter (total 2GB matched RAM now) - seemed to be running everything a lot better but on first test today got 2x USB dropouts again within a 10 second time span. I did the RATT tool a while ago but will do a fresh run with new RAM now..

I am on XP SP3, I don't think SP2 vulnerabilities would really help with Serato!

I was on 20 ms buffer and just set to 5ms to test also..got instant drop out and another again a minute later now..set back to 20 ms buffer for RATT test.. will edit this when I get results in a minute

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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 9

Cumulative Histogram for: HTTP.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\HTTP.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 5
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 13
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 3
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 22

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 40, 0, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 35, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 5, 0
TOTALS, 40, 40, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 1
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 7

Cumulative Histogram for: ks.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ks.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: netbt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 13
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 28
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 28
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 73

Cumulative Histogram for: portcls.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\portcls.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 14095, 3, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 2063, 1, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1735, 4, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 544, 1, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 9, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 16, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 943, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 19, 9966, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 1, 17622, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 3581, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 201, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 3, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 6, 0, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 2899, 0, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 1139, 0, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 609, 0, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 601, 0, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 501, 0, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 490, 0, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 412, 0, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 389, 0, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 342, 0, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 310, 0, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 346, 0, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 332, 0, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 353, 0, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 357, 0, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 354, 0, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 379, 0, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 508, 0, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 485, 0, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 582, 0, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 659, 0, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 1021, 0, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 1778, 0, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 4285, 0, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 6222, 0, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 4259, 0, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 1677, 0, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 526, 0, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 205, 0, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 142, 0, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 92, 0, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 39, 0, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 27, 0, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 4, 0, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 4, 0, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 50801, 32341, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 282
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1341
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1274
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 205
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 105
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 33
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 5
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 3
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3252

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 9
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 3
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 18

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 33
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 729
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 423
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 155
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 150
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 35
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 92
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 4
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 1
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 0, 118
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 33
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 9
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 3
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 4
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 2
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 1
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1794

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 4
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 63
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 321
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 300
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 190
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 34
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 22
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 936

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 195
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1380
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 590
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 121
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 122
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2414

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 452, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 70, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 9, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 29264, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 17693, 369, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 5927, 11321, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 8024, 1361, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 2753, 493, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 374, 45, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 8, 71, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 89, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 12, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 5, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 5, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 1, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 64575, 13774, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 10
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 19, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 1812, 168
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 7717, 66
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 11369, 35
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 3235, 14
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1894, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 763, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 289, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 183, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 57, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 108, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 4, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 2
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 4
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 3
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 3
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 29
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 28
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 20
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 8
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 4
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 0, 7
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 16
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 0, 19
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 0, 19
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 0, 10
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 0, 2
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 0, 1
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 0, 2
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 0, 2
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 27450, 467

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 17, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 42, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 9, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 4, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 5, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 93
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 120
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 56
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 313
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 464
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 52
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 2, 0, 33
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1118, 0, 15
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1652, 0, 9
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 19, 1437, 3
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 288, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 26, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 12, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 371, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 156, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 46, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 22, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 20, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 47, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 107, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 108, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 56, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 5, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 27, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 25, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 10, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 13, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 8, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 1, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 2, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 1, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 3, 0
TOTALS, 2791, 2791, 1170

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 13
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 17
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 37

Cumulative Histogram for: spli.sys (spli.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 10, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 183, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 48, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 392, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 9, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 7, 0
TOTALS, 0, 649, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 15103, 2657, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 5066, 29790, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 2290, 6189, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 1547, 155, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 318, 1, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 9, 0, 60
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 7, 88
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 6034, 331, 80
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 2740, 502, 37
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 31117, 3653, 215
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 3334, 1617, 734
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 143, 3304, 178
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 8, 1420, 16
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1, 1883, 1
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1712, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 1063, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 2038, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 1383, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 1330, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 880, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 957, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 561, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 219, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 99, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 81, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 57, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 2, 70, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 129, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 167, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 223, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 275, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 263, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 244, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 261, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 396, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 553, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 665, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 632, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 555, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 562, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 601, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 800, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 1062, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 1494, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 1437, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 1082, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 828, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 595, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 536, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 517, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 448, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 410, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 421, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 473, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 511, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 465, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 461, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 517, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 591, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 683, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 721, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 679, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 681, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 567, 0
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 448, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 320, 0
67, 580.00us to 589.99us, <590.00us, 0, 239, 0
68, 590.00us to 599.99us, <600.00us, 0, 176, 0
69, 600.00us to 609.99us, <610.00us, 0, 129, 0
70, 610.00us to 619.99us, <620.00us, 0, 98, 0
71, 620.00us to 629.99us, <630.00us, 0, 83, 0
72, 630.00us to 639.99us, <640.00us, 0, 61, 0
73, 640.00us to 649.99us, <650.00us, 0, 48, 0
74, 650.00us to 659.99us, <660.00us, 0, 38, 0
75, 660.00us to 669.99us, <670.00us, 0, 28, 0
76, 670.00us to 679.99us, <680.00us, 0, 16, 0
77, 680.00us to 689.99us, <690.00us, 0, 7, 0
78, 690.00us to 699.99us, <700.00us, 0, 4, 0
79, 700.00us to 709.99us, <710.00us, 0, 4, 0
80, 710.00us to 719.99us, <720.00us, 0, 3, 0
81, 720.00us to 729.99us, <730.00us, 0, 1, 0
82, 730.00us to 739.99us, <740.00us, 0, 4, 0
83, 740.00us to 749.99us, <750.00us, 0, 2, 0
84, 750.00us to 759.99us, <760.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 67712, 85174, 1411

Okay I checked for chipset updates, there was one USB update from last year I might have missed so installed, turned off a bunch of windows services I didn't need and edited my startup down to nothing at all really, now at 5 ms usb buffer and not really having as much problems.. only had one usb dropout so far in 10 minutes which is awesome ..

i will try at 10ms and push up until i get dropouts, but here at 5ms is a RATT report:

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
|
| From: WED APR-29-2009 12:23:56.51
| To: WED APR-29-2009 12:24:2.12
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 12, 0, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 12, 0
TOTALS, 12, 12, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 4

Cumulative Histogram for: netbt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 11
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 24
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 7
TOTALS, 0, 0, 42

Cumulative Histogram for: portcls.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\portcls.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 1679, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 15138, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 2550, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 301, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 6, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 9, 0, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 98, 0, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 254, 0, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 634, 0, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 778, 0, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 1171, 0, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 4464, 0, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 6140, 0, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 4099, 0, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 1538, 0, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 397, 0, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 65, 0, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 17, 0, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 7, 0, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 1, 0, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 2, 0, 0
TOTALS, 19674, 19674, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 92
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 966
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 759
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 57
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 12
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 8
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 5
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 1
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1902

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 12
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 719
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 207
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 53
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 16
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 3
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 21
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 1
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 0, 11
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1046

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 205
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 5
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 4
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 94
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 141
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 72
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 21
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 544

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 760, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 214, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 6, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 49724, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 33190, 9, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 3661, 5996, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 4627, 1184, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1591, 596, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 163, 92, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 12, 22, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 63, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 6, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 3, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 4, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 10, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 3, 0
TOTALS, 93948, 7988, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 10
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 8
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 22

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 1151, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 26074, 107
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 7436, 38
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 5740, 90
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 1416, 7
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 635, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 170, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 25, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 9, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 5, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 76, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 2, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 2, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 1
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 19
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 32
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 6
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 1
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 4
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 19
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 16
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 4
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 2
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 42741, 348

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 15, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 25, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 5, 0, 0
TOTALS, 45, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 54
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 5
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 63
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 44
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 379
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 129
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 6
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 128, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 151, 0, 3
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 146, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 33, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 6, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 40, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 17, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 7, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 11, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 6, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 8, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 5, 0
TOTALS, 280, 280, 684

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 6
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 15
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 22

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 286, 17675, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 128, 65471, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 138, 2125, 203
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 4, 121, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 3, 2, 23
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 97
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 1, 56
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 119, 32, 36
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 29797, 49, 61
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 55532, 1915, 282
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 2989, 182, 56
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 181, 171, 8
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 10, 125, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 4, 100, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 96, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 86, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 42, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 1361, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 5414, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 5555, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 3239, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 4689, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 4563, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 5844, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 5774, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 6251, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 5684, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 4965, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 4004, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 3640, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 3617, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 3361, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 3030, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 2561, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 2261, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 2034, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 1854, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 1472, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 1102, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 851, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 561, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 463, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 354, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 280, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 238, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 149, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 132, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 94, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 91, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 59, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 41, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 27, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 21, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 18, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 10, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 12, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 7, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 3, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 2, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 89191, 173882, 824

also i forgot to mention the MAIN things I fixed that I think had drastic improvement:

1) VIA chipset ASUS A7V400-MX has onboard audio, I had this enabled in bios even though have PCI sound card, so had uninstalled device 'multimedia audio controller', disabling in bios my onboard ac97 sound got rid of this and seemed to help a lot..

2) unplugging other USB devices (4 USB all up) so only mouse + serato are on USB

3) messing around with USB + IRQ settings in bios and disabling game controller + secondary slave IDE and mobo enhancements for sec slave IDE, as I only have one device on Sec master IDE

I'm hoping my one USB dropout experienced so far since changing these can be attributed to something minor.. going to try a mix now and see how it treats me :)

trying with 3x USB devices now as I need the external HDD plugged. fingers crossed

Hi ninjagaijin,

Sounds like you're on the right track with all the disabling you've done :)

Looking at your RATT report shows two items of concern:


Apparently this driver is used by soundcards, so do you have any other soundcards active at all? I'd suggest disabling it too if you can.


Now this one is going to be harder to track down as there is no info on what the process is. Try opening Task Manager and see if you can spot anything running that might relate to this.

well, I have *A* soundcard so having to TURN OFF my soundcard everytime I use Serato is a little silly. But I'll give it a shot.

Not sure about Unknown - processes running include ashdisp, ashserv, aswupdsv, 5x svchost.exe, explorer.exe, lsass.exe, services.exe, winlogin.exe + csrss.exe

ashdisp, ashserv + aswupdsv are my antivirus software

I have a crappy $25 Sound Blaster 5.1 card, i have disabled the midi + soundcard + will retest serato.. I think the unknown driver is something else though. I'll try uninstalling my other system protection stuff like spyware blaster, spybot & adaware (even though I dont like doing this! )

Unfortunately if the sound card is interferring you will need to disable it. The same goes for anti-virus software (which we always recommend you have turned off), however as you shouldn't be connected to the Internet it shouldn't be too much of a problem. You can always turn them back on when you're not using Scratch Live :)

The following is at 4ms usb buffer, hi fi resampler enabled, 30 seconds audio cache and 20 fps display refresh - I have disabled my sound card + midi. Unknown still popping up.. will next try uninstalling anti-malware stuffs like antimalware, ad-aware, spybot, spyware blaster + windows defender. I previously already had most if not all of their background services disabled through both services.msc + msconfig

Just looked at avast config, i have always disabled the on-access protection but cannot remove the base level services from services.msc or msconfig.. worst case will uninstall (but really dont like uninstalling antivirus!).. as you said tho probably not the anti virus as it should not be an unknown driver, and am not using the internet (disabling the network connection) or mail browser while using Serato.

I will uninstall some stuff now and hope it clears my unknown driver.. otherwise, can you see if this RATT report has cleared up issues with my PCI slot creative sound card?

I could easily go back to using the onboard VIA chip AC97 if required as I felt like a fool even buying the $25 creative - it really doesnt offer much advantage over mobo chipset sound

Anyway here is my report, I will post a follow up when I have deleted more programs

Tonight I will also be testing the program on my girlfriend's Dell laptop, 1.5ghz dual core with 1GB of RAM, hoping it won't have these issues so I will at least not have to worry as much when playing live about this sort of stuff

Perhaps the 'unknown' driver is actually Serato running? I'm a noob at this so I dont know tho

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
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| From: THR APR-30-2009 5:37:23.03
| To: THR APR-30-2009 5:37:28.79
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 5
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 273
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1913
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 926
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 101
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 34
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 6
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 6
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3263

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 5
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1104
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 476
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 167
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 28
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 4
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 9
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1794

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 19
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 227
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 121
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 21
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 6
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 395

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 581, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 174, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 4, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 55611, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 29559, 1076, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 8698, 9307, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 5983, 2691, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 2594, 366, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 622, 59, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 35, 61, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 76, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 15, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 7, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 6, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 15, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 3, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 103862, 13683, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 10538, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 69439, 160
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 12835, 70
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 9950, 19
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 2471, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1214, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 370, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 115, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 32, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 8, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 110, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 1, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 3
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 2
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 65
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 21
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 8
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 2
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 1
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 19
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 26
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 16
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 3
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 1
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 1
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 0, 2
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 9
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 107083, 431

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 7, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 57, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 10, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 76, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 8
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 90
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 59
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 26
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 6
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 183

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 7
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 26
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 93, 25909, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 227, 63118, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 25, 2396, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 4, 4, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1, 70, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 10011, 134, 2
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 82101, 3734, 935
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 5180, 222, 440
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 160, 487, 32
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 6, 269, 3
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 199, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 509, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 887, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 221, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 19, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 3, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 6, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 3552, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 10202, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 15448, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 6764, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 5413, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 6916, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 6734, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 3453, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 2190, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 2130, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 2061, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 2405, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 2304, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 2258, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 1843, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 1361, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 875, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 637, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 1027, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 1446, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 1255, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 949, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 936, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 1206, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 1376, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 1389, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 1147, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 904, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 640, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 446, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 231, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 129, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 130, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 88, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 49, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 45, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 37, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 19, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 8, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 1, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 4, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 97808, 188197, 1412

That RATT report looks much better. Since you've disabled your soundcard the portcls.sys is not there causing problems :) Actually even the Unknown (Unknown) process is giving lower values, which is good (also this process isn't Scratch Live :)

Are you still getting droputs now?

I unsintalled my antivirus services, all those apps I said before, and still got a 3-4 second yellow USB drop light. It didn't affect play however and was just at the start, hoping maybe RATT doing that?? doesnt seem likely though. Also last night for about 6 seconds both decks dropped out and disappeared entirely, only to come back playing where they should have been. 6 seconds of nothingness scared me a lot more than a USB dropout.. but both are getting to me a little. I'll do a hard test later tonight of this current setup but I still don't know what the unknown thing is. Hoping I don't have to format, but if I do, oh well. At least it might be a solution.. but it takes seriously 24 hours nowadays to update from SP1 or 2 to current XP version


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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
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| From: THR APR-30-2009 6:7:7.01
| To: THR APR-30-2009 6:7:10.21
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 2, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2, 0, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 4, 2, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: ks.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ks.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: netbt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 15
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 315
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1502
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1134
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 183
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 88
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 7
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 7
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 3
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3257

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 15
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 31
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 31
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1001
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 459
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 184
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 52
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 10
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 9
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1794

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 4
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 25
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 109
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 135
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 86
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 21
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 14
TOTALS, 0, 0, 395

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 153
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1433
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 285
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 25
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 27
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 3
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 2
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1929

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 319, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 98, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 30798, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 13894, 3413, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 10319, 7353, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 4924, 2058, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 2314, 650, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 890, 59, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 52, 77, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 63, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 7, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 2, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 10, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 21, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 2, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 63609, 13716, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 17
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 389, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 3054, 170
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 6440, 66
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 8257, 37
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 2053, 3
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 874, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 225, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 56, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 34, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 7, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 32, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 1, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 1
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 3
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 6
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 45
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 32
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 11
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 3
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 1
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 1
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 10
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 27
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 24
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 3
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 1
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 2
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 0, 1
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 6
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 21422, 456

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 17, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 47, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 7, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 3, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 3, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 6
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 90
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 40
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 35
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 13
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 183

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 11
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 18
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 4
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 37

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 4569, 13878, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 1682, 37950, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 542, 1614, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 107, 27, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 85, 16, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 2, 13, 2
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 21, 3
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 5540, 641, 7
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 8473, 557, 7
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 41576, 3708, 815
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 3558, 626, 507
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 98, 2980, 62
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 2, 2196, 5
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1546, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1849, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 2037, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 1012, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 166, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 67, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 59, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 44, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 19, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 92, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 595, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 737, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 1682, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 6654, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 5223, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 2709, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 1896, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 1485, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 996, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 656, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 585, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 709, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 725, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 733, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 693, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 810, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 868, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 848, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 759, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 594, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 387, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 312, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 361, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 497, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 735, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 904, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 878, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 699, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 645, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 761, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 1024, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 1222, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 1278, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 1035, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 754, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 408, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 276, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 190, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 162, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 103, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 39, 0
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 35, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 36, 0
67, 580.00us to 589.99us, <590.00us, 0, 30, 0
68, 590.00us to 599.99us, <600.00us, 0, 22, 0
69, 600.00us to 609.99us, <610.00us, 0, 12, 0
70, 610.00us to 619.99us, <620.00us, 0, 7, 0
71, 620.00us to 629.99us, <630.00us, 0, 2, 0
72, 630.00us to 639.99us, <640.00us, 0, 7, 0
73, 640.00us to 649.99us, <650.00us, 0, 5, 0
74, 650.00us to 659.99us, <660.00us, 0, 9, 0
75, 660.00us to 669.99us, <670.00us, 0, 3, 0
76, 670.00us to 679.99us, <680.00us, 0, 4, 0
77, 680.00us to 689.99us, <690.00us, 0, 3, 0
78, 690.00us to 699.99us, <700.00us, 0, 1, 0
79, 700.00us to 709.99us, <710.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 66234, 113922, 1409

Guessing that my fix will be finding that damn unknown entity.. argh! will test tonight however and if USB drops continue will do my best to find the culprit.. before warranting a format

I will try UNINSTALLING my soundcard now rather than disabling it, uninstall the driver etc..

This time I thought, it might be my USB mouse so I switched to an old port connecting ball wheel mouse. I also think maybe this could be my external hdd? this is connected by USB and is being accessed for most of the songs. Once again this test I got a long 4-6 second yellow USB drop light, however again no affect on the playback luckily.. still scares me a little seeing it tho lol. Possible my external hdd is unknown driver? Doesn't seem likely.. so, if I get affected by USB drops, is my only option now to format, or is there some way I could figure out what the culprit is? maybe hijackthis or other such program might find it?


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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
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| From: THR APR-30-2009 6:40:6.46
| To: THR APR-30-2009 6:40:10.64
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 5

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 21, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1553, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 960, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 778, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1482, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 93, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2532, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 30, 250, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 2077, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 154, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 7, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 7449, 2489, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 4

Cumulative Histogram for: ks.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ks.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 2
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 197
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1575
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 755
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 37
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 23
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 4
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2599

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 6
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 14
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 903
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 374
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 106
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 16
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 2
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 6
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1431

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 20
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 162
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 113
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 15
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 4
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 316

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 258
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1551
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 231
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 19
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 7
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 9
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2075

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 713, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 186, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 3, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 81824, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 27862, 1862, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 6625, 6541, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 3753, 1889, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1917, 429, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 171, 65, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 9, 57, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 58, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 5, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 1, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 11, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 16, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 1, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 123063, 10936, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 13
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 10
TOTALS, 0, 0, 28

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 4, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 1389, 135
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 5629, 42
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 7904, 13
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 1824, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 601, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 135, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 31, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 14, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 2, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 66, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 1, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 1, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 1
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 3
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 46
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 22
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 7
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 1
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 15
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 23
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 11
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 6
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 2
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 5
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 17601, 338

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 12, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 47, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 61, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 11

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 11
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 18
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 73
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 39
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 146

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 10
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 13
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 27

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 5845, 38965, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 1483, 71735, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 27, 1071, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 3, 2, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 10
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 1, 0, 140
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 6, 81
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 6016, 123, 40
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 45511, 143, 20
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 60852, 2874, 753
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 2228, 261, 68
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 67, 2616, 14
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 7, 1902, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 2311, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 818, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 293, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 48, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 6730, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 6345, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 12038, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 15025, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 6790, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 6038, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 7094, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 6630, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 6932, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 5894, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 4110, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 3548, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 2970, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 2880, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 2441, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 2026, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 1387, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 1021, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 877, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 919, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 1099, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 885, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 483, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 255, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 129, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 111, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 96, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 55, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 35, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 17, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 12, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 13, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 17, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 13, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 3, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 3, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 1, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 1, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 1, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 1, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 122040, 228094, 1127

Uninstalled my drivers for my crappy webcam and deleted a few more things. During RATT test no USB drop but as soon as pushing the windows button for the first time it gives USB yellow then dropout of actual audio. So looking a lot better now it seems but still can't find/get rid of the unknown thing. Perhaps it is because I'm on 4ms, I could try pushing it back but I'd rather have the lower latency. Maybe I just need to burn it in every time I use it, load it up and do a bunch of windows browsing and windows key button pressing to get rid of any issues,.,.

another thing, in a setup guide I read to set windows to allocate CPU priority to 'background services' over 'main application' .. maybe it would help if I switched it to 'main application'?

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
|
| From: THR APR-30-2009 7:0:3.09
| To: THR APR-30-2009 7:0:9.24
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 14, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1534, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 948, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 529, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1164, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 96, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2190, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 22, 318, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 1743, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 101, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 5, 0
TOTALS, 6497, 2167, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: ks.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ks.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 275
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1935
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 933
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 64
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 32
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 9
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3252

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 4
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 35
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1246
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 356
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 116
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 16
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 4
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 10
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1794

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 19
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 205
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 133
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 30
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 5
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 396

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 395
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1569
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 189
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 25
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 13
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 12
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 1
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 1
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2206

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 828, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 247, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 3, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 3, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 95233, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 33167, 2700, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 8011, 7982, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 4805, 2374, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 2398, 423, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 228, 51, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 8, 48, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 69, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 16, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 4, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 4, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 26, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 10, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 4, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 1, 0
80, 710.00us to 719.99us, <720.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 144932, 13713, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 13
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 46, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 3317, 174
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 7993, 54
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 10012, 18
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 2164, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 802, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 165, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 37, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 11, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 2, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 73, 1
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 3, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 9
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 55
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 26
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 9
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 3
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 3
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 10
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 30
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 15
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 10
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 6
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 0, 2
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 24625, 430

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 21, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 46, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 8, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 8
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 90
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 43
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 43
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 5
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 183

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 11
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 23
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 6204, 46681, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 1974, 82911, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 97, 867, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 106, 17, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 44, 5, 24
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 7, 175
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1, 22, 87
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 7258, 800, 46
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 45850, 627, 36
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 79076, 4675, 927
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 4913, 677, 101
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 198, 3212, 14
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 10, 2132, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 2493, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 854, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 372, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 106, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 6562, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 8622, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 16630, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 15942, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 7638, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 6948, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 8490, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 8672, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 8127, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 6678, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 4530, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 4288, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 3633, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 3281, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 2884, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 2043, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 1486, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 968, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 922, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 1176, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 1382, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 890, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 413, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 224, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 169, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 130, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 90, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 46, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 39, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 32, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 13, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 15, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 8, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 6, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 8, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 145731, 269444, 1410

Wow that's really not good. So the USB dropout light didn't come on when this happened?


Hmm it's possible, is your HDD USB powered or does it have an external power supply? Actually maybe try running Scratch Live with the SL 1 being the only USB device connected, does this make a difference?


I wouldn't recommend reformatting except as a last resort. If the problems is a Windows driver reinstalling won't help at all. We really need to figure out what that unknown process is :-/ I haven't heard of HijackThis but looking at it I don't think that would help.


I haven't heard of this option but if you can do I suggest you should, sounds like it could make a difference :)

Also one thing to try if you can is running the SL 1 using an external power supply.

a) yes when the 6 second gap, no USB or anything, the images disappeared from the wavedisplay and everything, then came back after 6 seconds.

b) I will try without the external hdd ASAP, it is powered itself however

c) I'm a bit stuck trying to find this unknown :( I understand that a forma

d) It seems to work a little better, a lot of places I read though for different things you should set it to background services but I think main application would work better. In Control Panel/System/Advanced tab/Performance settings/Advanced/Processor scheduling & Memory usage options

However this gets me thinking it's probably my crap power supply. It's really bad in many ways I would be embarrassed to admit putting up with. But perhaps an external power supply would really help! I'll head over to Jaycar on Tuesday / payday

Sounds like the CPU must have maxed out. Have you had this happen again since?

It definitely sounds like we're getting close to fixing your dropouts :) Let me know how it works out with the power supply.

dropout laden recent use:

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
|
| From: WED JUN-24-2009 13:40:8.34
| To: WED JUN-24-2009 13:40:12.05
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 4, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 1, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 2, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 4, 4, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 5
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 313
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1195
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1468
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 195
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 71
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 19
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3263

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 6
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 3
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 18

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 900
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 620
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 200
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 55
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 13
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1795

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 21
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 154
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 146
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 52
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 11
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 6
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 395

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 575, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 116, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 6, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 11270, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 52107, 12, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 8295, 9216, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 10950, 2162, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 3978, 1334, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 1245, 112, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 487, 3, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 145, 0, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 14, 1, 0
TOTALS, 89190, 12840, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 8
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 8
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 1705, 154
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 6531, 57
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 9081, 175
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 2814, 16
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1553, 10
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 442, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 123, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 38, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 9, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 47, 2
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 3, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 40
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 51
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 8
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 1
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 24
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 26
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 17
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 2
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 4
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 2
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 1
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 1
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 22346, 596

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 32, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 39, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 4, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 76, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 90
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 39
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 34
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 15
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 183

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 20
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 34

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 42756, 49231, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 20206, 26568, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 7184, 115, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 2551, 11, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1578, 6, 161
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 11, 3, 191
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 2, 29
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 4496, 107, 102
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 49857, 80, 146
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 22896, 601, 425
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 1196, 530, 337
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 55, 490, 15
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 249, 2
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 87, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 608, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 639, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 1308, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 7828, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 8582, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 7529, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 4135, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 1682, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 908, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 831, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 1420, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 1709, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 9140, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 6846, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 3246, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 2008, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 1717, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 1826, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 1747, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 1438, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 1058, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 1051, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 1196, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 1255, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 1071, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 781, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 608, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 529, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 482, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 417, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 302, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 228, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 174, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 160, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 135, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 191, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 171, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 165, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 152, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 166, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 117, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 130, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 106, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 64, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 33, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 21, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 17, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 14, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 7, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 2, 0
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 2, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 1, 0
69, 600.00us to 609.99us, <610.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 152786, 154034, 1408


I ditched my old sound card because it couldn't even play anything over a 48khz wave file, and since I needed to disable it anyway. I got a new sound blaster card, well an older one really and it is better for production but I still need something better eventually but can't afford yet. Regardless I am disabling this as well as internet and closing all apps i can in task manager and all those things. It happens randomly it is so annoying.

Had no problems with the unit on my girlfriends laptop playing live, but she uses this regularly at home and I can't use for practice. I got a new power supply for my PC so it no longer crashes when I touch the PSU or tap the case anywhere too hard, 600watt zalman HP so it's really more than necessary atm.

The 6 second gap thing hasn't happened again luckily, seemed a freak occurance. The new version of the program is a lot better I think. For that RATT report I also bumped my latency up to 7 ms and turned down the display refresh to 10 seconds. I got a power supply also, hasn't helped.

I'm assuming it must be this 'unknown' device. Thinking maybe my optical mouse driver, but would be weird that that was still happening even when I had my ball wheel mouse attached instead. I've just done the harrowing process of navigating the Dell website to find an updated driver for my $5 dell optical mouse. Not sure that this unknown thing would be that. I also cleaned CPU and heatsink for first time since purchase, applying new grease and some new cooling to get the temperature down so it wasn't shutting down due to extreme CPU temps. So the system is ready, it doesn't have any problems apart from the USB dropout now. I love the new history that saves everything, used to be annoying having to try to remember to notate them all down by hand before shutting down. But at a show, I don't really feel like transcribing immediately after my set lol.

I'll mess around and try uninstalling some more things, but I need a bunch of applications (not many that should have weird drivers though) otherwise my system doesn't have anything weird on it.

A little hairpulling when it happens! I can see the dream of Serato, but I can't record a mix successfully unless I can borrow my girls laptop.. not happening lol (watches digital TV and DVDs on it in the lounge room).

Also I'm not sure if I mentioned I upgraded to 2GB ram matched new Kingston sticks. I really don't know what else to do but format and see if it comes up on a fresh install, then check each app/device i install if it comes up on ratt. which would be super annoying? lol. I'd prefer anything but that really at this stage, with lots of production to work on and hdds full and everything

wow look at this RATT after I got rid of the microsoft 'Bonjour' service.

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
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| From: WED JUN-24-2009 14:30:49.49
| To: WED JUN-24-2009 14:30:50.64
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: Beep.SYS (\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Beep.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: netbt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 83
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 351
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 386
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 39
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 27
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 8
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 895

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 5

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 130
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 263
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 52
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 32
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 6
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 4
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 492

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 5
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 41
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 37
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 21
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 107

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 151, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 3, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2313, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 11589, 106, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 2649, 1879, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 3173, 1391, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 844, 123, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 385, 5, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 55, 0, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 4, 17, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 20, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 11, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 21168, 3554, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 5
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 10

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 1, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 1259, 52
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 2730, 17
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 2218, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 583, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 355, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 132, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 45, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 32, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 6, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 9, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 14
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 9
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 4
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 1
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 5
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 12
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 7370, 119

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 11, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 9, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 21, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 25
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 15
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 6
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 4
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 51

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 5
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 10

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 56, 10242, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 38, 7265, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 2, 39, 97
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 2, 5, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 2, 70
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 27
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 11, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 341, 434, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 9172, 199, 36
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 8892, 547, 125
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 577, 211, 26
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 29, 32, 6
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 12, 1
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 4, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 3, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 605, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 1732, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 1218, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 801, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 648, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 663, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 516, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 803, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 2184, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 1299, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 919, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 698, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 617, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 480, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 320, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 321, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 236, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 186, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 174, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 153, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 222, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 377, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 299, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 227, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 192, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 172, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 121, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 132, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 129, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 84, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 98, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 96, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 192, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 201, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 158, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 104, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 60, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 37, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 22, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 21, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 17, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 12, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 4, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 3, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 1, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 1, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 3, 0
TOTALS, 19110, 36566, 388


Is that not heaps better?? I was having high Unknown scores right before I uninstalled this

Gonna test now, hoping ftw!~!

by the way that is NOT while running Serato, just idling with windows.. but even just doing that before (and running RATT to see what its value was) would produce high result. I didn't feel like testing it with Serato each application I deleted.

I thought maybe it was Daemon Tools but thought this highly unlikely as I have it installed with no devices enabled and all settings disabled/off. I'll reinstall it again and hopefully without this bloody 'Bonjour' thing it will work!! Here is a link for the bonjour service to check out: - you should put this in the manual or something if it is a regular culprit as it was an update on the microsoft update site some time back. Not sure if regular or high priority update, but I like to get all the things they put out just for the sake of it. I guess this time it was a wrong move.

sorry link: en.wikipedia.org(software)

Hey ninjagaijin,

It still appears to be the Unknown process which is causing your dropouts. Everything you've been doing so far is good :) What might be a good idea is if you can open Device Manager, expand the following categories and take some screenshots:

Bluetooth
Network adapters
Sound, video & game controllers
System devices
Universal Serial Bus controllers

If you could then upload the screenshots here I'll see if anything stands out -> www.serato.com

Thanks mate, I tried another mix last night and had a couple of dropouts but more so now was skipping of tracks.. I had data loss and needed to recover my tunes so perhaps they are the tunes themselves, have to give them a thorough scanning but I think it might be Serato.. can't confirm yet though, but was happening on new tunes I ripped, bought, downloaded also so probably wouldn't be the lost data (also I defrag a lot so almost all the files were contigious upon recovery so they should be ok)

I don't have any wireless/bluetooth (wifi radiation not for me hehe)

here is the image:

i74.photobucket.com

oops i'll upload on form now ..

serato.com

Cool thanks for the image :) I'd recommend disabling the following while you are using Scratch Live:

VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
Creative SB Live! Value
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices

See if that helps out :)


So these aren't USB dropouts? Could you please explain more what is happening?

Hey Michael, each time I run serato i would disable the LAN connection, so instead I will try disabling the adaptor itself. I have been disabling the Creative SB Live each time, just re-enabling afterwards to playback audio once again, but thanks for advice I thought disabling the legacy might help - will get back to you later tonight

As for skipping, there was the USB dropouts, but also now 'skipping/slipping', where every 2nd or 3rd tune would skip a few hundred milliseconds forward randomly during a blend, sending me off on frantic fix-up. HOWEVER I just was trying some regular vinyl out while trying to fix serato and discovered sibilance on my records from one of my cartridges. So I am calibrating my cartridge to see if this could be the cause (technics headshell with Stanton 500v3 cart) .. I'm thinking atm that I had too much overhang and this might have been causing the slips? In the process of setting up my cartridge again I've broken one of the cart wires so I'll get some more today, along with some stylus cleaner (which I haven't been using, shame I know, just very broke and only had my Vestax decks a few months now) .. so i'm thinking the 'skipping' which is a relatively new phenomenon will hopefully be fixed when I fix up my cart.

So when I get that I'll test again and get back to you.. I will also perhaps try uninstalling some of those devices you mentioned in case I could notice in the RATT afterwards that the unknown was missing and work out what it is this way

I checked those 'legacy' devices again, no way to uninstall or disable, they have blank options in the properties - the seem to be mobo components I think, they have always been there since base windows install. I always check for new chipset drivers, I have latest and checked for new ones a couple of months ago to see if that would help.

I've also been using absolute mode so i'll go through my whole setup for problems that might be causing the 'skipping/slipping'

I uninstalled my ethernet adaptor in windows and disabled in bios (as it is onboard the mobo). Started up again and here is my RATT, idle at windows, still unknown :(

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
|
| From: FRI JUN-26-2009 5:35:14.55
| To: FRI JUN-26-2009 5:35:14.94
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: ctoss2k.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctoss2k.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 17, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 664, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 181, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 81, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 86, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 26, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 628, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 294, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 262, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 4, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 1683, 561, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: portcls.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\portcls.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 9, 0, 0
TOTALS, 9, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 21
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 66
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 51
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 16
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 9
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 2
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 168

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 7
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 58
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 26
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 7
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 101

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 5
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 7
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 6
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 2
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 22

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 9, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 31, 202, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 244, 281, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 87, 233, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 86, 23, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 205, 0, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 84, 0, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 2, 0, 0
TOTALS, 748, 739, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 86, 10
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 148, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 161, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 81, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 76, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 52, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 14, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 15, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 8, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 5, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 0, 1
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 3
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 1
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 1
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 1
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 2
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 646, 26

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 3, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 4, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 10

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: Unknown (Unknown)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 6, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 2, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 1, 19
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 2, 1
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 84, 3
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 3, 84, 7
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 203, 269, 13
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 704, 181, 15
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 20, 203, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 80, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 22, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 939, 927, 58

:(

it gives highest values even while idle :( I tried uninstalling mozilla firefox plugins in case any had drivers.

I tried deleting peer guardian and sandboxie, in case that had a driver but not luck either :(

Is it possible it is some software I installed for some app on my system, or def a device?

I'm just going through and getting rid of lots of apps now :(

still no luck with many apps deleted :(

I found this option in Device Manager for 'show hidden devices' so I enabled that and discovered this main new section to appear, 'non plug and play drivers'. I went through this and removed a few obvious things, like STARFORCE(??) that had somehow been installed without me knowing from some crap game probably.. darnit. So disabling a bunch but don't know if it will help, will keep trying. Here is the list of STARTED drivers, I went through the entire list and checked

serato.com

((Started)) non-plug and play drivers (with network card enabled for internet to post this):

AFD
Avast sync/self protection
Beep
cdenable
dmload
Fips
Generic Packet Classifier
giveio
IntelIde
IP Network Address Translator
IP Traffic Filter Driver
IPv6 Windows Firewall Driver
ksecdd
mnmdd
mountmgr
NDIS System Driver
NDIS Usermode I/O Protocol
NDProxy
NetBios over Tcpip
NetworkX
Null
ParVdm
PCIIde
PfModNT
pgfilter
RPDCDD
sptd
TCP/IP Protocol Driver
VgaSave
ViaIde
VolSnap

OMG I got rid of the unknown!!!!!!

Please make sure you let anyone else with similar problems to look at the following!!
link: oreilly.com/pub/h/3105

"Displaying ghosted or nonpresent devices takes a little more work. You'll set a systemwide environment variable that forces the Device Manager to display them. First, right-click My Computer and choose Properties → Advanced → Environment Variables. The Environment Variable dialog box opens. This dialog box lets you set system variables for the entire system or for individual users. Environment variables control a variety of XP features, such as the location of your Windows directory and TEMP directories and the filename and location of the command processor that will launch when you run the command prompt.

The Environment Variables dialog box contains two sections: "User variables" and "System variables." To apply the variable to a single user, use the "User variables" dialog box; to apply the variable to all users, use the "System variables" dialog box. In this case, you'll want to create the variable systemwide, so click New in the "System variables" section. The New System Variable dialog box appears. For "Variable name," type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices. Once you've created the name, you need to give it a value. To turn the setting on, type 1 in the "Variable value" box. You can see the box filled out properly in Figure 1. Click OK and then OK again."

Basically I had 20-30 things in EACH of the following (some only had 1-10 but a few had over 20):

Disk drives
Display adapters
DVD/CD-ROM drives
Floppy disk drives
Mice
Monitors
Network adapters
Sound, video and game controllers (looooots of sound stuff from heaps of diff drivers)
System devices
USB controllers

so I've removed every last one of them in windows safe mode with the hidden devices showed in device manager and also the ghosted devices environment variable set. Phew! Goes to show how long it's been since i've had to format :)

I never knew about all this.. a very nice windows hack to get rid of all those bloody drivers!!!

Big respects for all the help until now or I would never have got this far or found this out.. going to run a PROPER ratt soon when i'm ready to mix, see what you think of it :)

Hopefully this will help anyone else with an older computer / older windows install if they are getting similar dropouts... kind of LUCKY it was showing up as unknown, perhaps if there weren't so many it would have just not shown up.

I would recommend all Serato users to clean out these old drivers to improve your software, not to mention system performance!!

Happy day, I think the skipping / slipping was probably due to using absolute setting throughout all those tests, and not having cleaned my needles or set up my decks or carts 100% right. So I got an additional shell weight as vestax TTs state you need for carts under 8 grams (am using Stanton 500V3 on technics shell), got new cartridge wires since broke one pulling old ones out, correctly set turntable height, estimated better, earthed better, moved serato box and many leads and other devices and power equipment around to try and minimise hum or bad earthing.. I think it's pretty much good to go but I will do a full test next day or so and post RATT - but I will also see if the skipping keeps up. Will also try relative mode a bit more.. but I do prefer absolute to keep to a single paradigm while playing, switching between tunes on wax and control records

WEEE! Excited, almost ready to start working on my actual djing as opposed to IT skills hee hee

for proof of RATT with no unknown... this is a test with Serato running disconnected hardware just preview playing a track, with browser windows open, firefox open, network enabled and sound card enabled.. just to see if now , I don't have to worry about all those things...

is the ntoskrnl.exe in this bad, 25,000 DPC count?

I think it should be ok though now!!!!!

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
|
| From: FRI JUN-26-2009 13:52:42.86
| To: FRI JUN-26-2009 13:52:45.61
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 4

Cumulative Histogram for: ctaud2k.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 30
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 55
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 133
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 319
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1257
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 10
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 2
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 39
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1846

Cumulative Histogram for: ctoss2k.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\ctoss2k.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 17
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 0, 1
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 0, 1
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 0, 1
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 0, 4
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 0, 6
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 0, 7
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 0, 4
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 0, 3
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 0, 1
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 0, 3
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 0, 4
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 0, 5
67, 580.00us to 589.99us, <590.00us, 0, 0, 5
68, 590.00us to 599.99us, <600.00us, 0, 0, 4
71, 620.00us to 629.99us, <630.00us, 0, 0, 2
74, 650.00us to 659.99us, <660.00us, 0, 0, 1
76, 670.00us to 679.99us, <680.00us, 0, 0, 2
81, 720.00us to 729.99us, <730.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 72

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 385, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 6033, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 1852, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 972, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1139, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 374, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 6050, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 78, 2367, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 2, 2992, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 3, 126, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1, 5, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 2, 4, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 2, 2, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1, 1, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 54, 2, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 100, 6, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 3, 11, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 157, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 22, 0
TOTALS, 17051, 5695, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 4

Cumulative Histogram for: ks.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ks.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: netbt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 17
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 13
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 9
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 44

Cumulative Histogram for: portcls.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\portcls.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 13, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 5, 104, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 316, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 813, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 420, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 28, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 3, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 1, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 25, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 67, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 48, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 7, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 5, 1846, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 3
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 322
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 958
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 460
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 122
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 103
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 31
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 5
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 1
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 2006

Cumulative Histogram for: serial.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\serial.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 1, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 6, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 10
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 14
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 22
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 8, 0, 48

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 5
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 12

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 6
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 21
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 301
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 398
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 152
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 117
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 35
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 52
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 2
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 10
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 0, 1
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 3
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 2
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 1
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1107

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 42
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 171
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 9
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 6
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 121
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 116
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 56
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 27
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 19
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 9
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 1
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 578

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 364, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 166, 1, 47
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 197, 29, 162
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 45, 6, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 1, 42
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 3, 180
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 4, 132
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 3, 95
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 2, 29
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 14, 15, 47
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 16
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 4, 0, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 2, 1, 5
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 793, 65, 756

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 2, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 126, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 515, 2395, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 2391, 2146, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 976, 2436, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 644, 583, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 1589, 47, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 1434, 5, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 243, 52, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 22, 37, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 6, 19, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 17, 21, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 21, 64, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 21, 202, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 34, 54, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 118, 8, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 249, 0, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 60, 0, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 6, 3, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 5, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 1, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 1, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 8474, 8080, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 11
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 6
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 22

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 2487, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 9352, 120
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 5129, 10
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 3840, 10
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 1572, 4
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1370, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 728, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 289, 1
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 187, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 63, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 42, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1, 4
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 35
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 8
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 6
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 89, 5
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 6, 2
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 1, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 18
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 8
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 3
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 7
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 1
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 1
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 1
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 2
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 0, 3
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 6
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 25156, 259

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 57, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 95, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 6, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 37, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 12, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 8, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 23, 2, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 14, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 8, 3, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1, 3, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1, 14, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 9, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 3, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 1, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 1, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 1, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 47, 253, 2

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 39, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 14, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 2, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 370, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 456, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 1155, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 490, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1918, 966, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 1712, 492, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 57, 329, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 88, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1, 15, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 1, 1, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 1, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 1, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 1, 18, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 4, 31, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 121, 11, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 3, 34, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 6, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 1, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 11, 0, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 3, 0, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 2, 0, 0
TOTALS, 3890, 4465, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 10

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 58
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 18
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 69
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 49
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 293
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 143
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 38
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 4, 0, 30
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 164, 0, 12
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 212, 0, 6
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 1, 215, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 58, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 7, 1
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 8, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 30, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 27, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 4, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 1, 3
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 7, 14, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 8, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 5, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 1, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 3, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 2, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 1, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 1, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 2, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 388, 388, 720

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 6
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 10
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 23

Also the i8042prt.sys, I am currently using a ball wheel mouse, would my USB dell mouse with 2007 driver be better than this perhaps? Would it be worth experimenting with both and see which produces lower ISR and DPCs? I don't really understand the process of RATT

As I don't think the i8042 pops up in some RATTs i've posted.. so maybe with the USB mouse it's just using the USB driver, which seems to always been 2000 or under DPCTmr count regardless which mouse. I'm assuming the i8042 is my ball wheel driver

Hey ninjagaijin,

Wow you've done a whole lot of work, I'm really happy it has paid off for you :) Also I never knew about displaying hidden hardware in device manager so thanks HEAPS for sharing that, that's going to be really useful for helping other users :)


No that's fine, you only really need to worry if a device is giving a value over 500.00us, which I notice from your latest RATT report that ctoss2k.sys:


I've had a quick google search and apparently that is a Creative OS Services Driver - Creative Audio Driver, so if you can see that anywhere I recommend you disable it :) I also took a look at i8042prt.sys and apparently:


So it appears that is your mouse, however as it's returning low values I wouldn't worry about it for now :)


I'd say from the changes you've made here you should have no problems using Absolute mode :) Let me know how it goes.

Looks like you've almost got everything solved!

Hey Michael thank you for your words, I had hoped this tidbit would help a lot of people, I never knew about this and it seems this would be integral for proper system optimisation for pretty much any use, not just this software. Just important for the fix is to unplug everything USB-wise, run windows in safe mode (f12 during startup) so the drivers aren't being used so they uninstall correctly, also I read for some drivers like Starforce etc you need to disable rather than remove, as they rarely will remove and often can cause lots of errors doing this. But removing lots of dead drivers has really made my O/S work noticeably better! Also important is not just enabling the hidden devices but also the environment variable to show all the 'ghosted' devices, as this is where the bulk of things I needed to remove were

I will disable the sound card for next post, also the Creative OS Driver *is actually* in the hidden device list, so I will disable that before playing!

I did a set last night, no skips and no USB dropouts :) wasn't really pushing it though and on 6ms latency - I'll jack the settings up after disabling sound card for my next mix and RATT :)

That's what I like to hear, everything working properly! Let me know how you get on when you lower the buffer :)

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| From: THR JU-9-2009 14:34:59.57
| To: THR JU-9-2009 14:38:14.31
| Runs: 2
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: netbt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 123
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 880
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1913
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 319
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 43
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 12
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 2
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 7
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3299

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 7
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 18

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 6
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 822
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 721
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 190
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 65
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 4
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 4
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1814

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 11
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 117
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 184
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 80
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 7
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 401

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 3841, 94870, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 709, 4742, 30
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 68, 0, 327
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 14, 2, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 2, 224
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 132
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 945, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 43896, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 54620, 332, 250
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 616, 2, 449
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 11
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 4
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 5, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 112, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 1890, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 1488, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 3352, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 9901, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 6029, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 4287, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 4177, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 5170, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 7847, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 5882, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 4620, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 4225, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 3480, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 2875, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 3006, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 2441, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 1760, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 1391, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 1170, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 1031, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 909, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 920, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 897, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 966, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 1005, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 905, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 982, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 1302, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 1478, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 1230, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 1146, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 1482, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 1765, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 1753, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 1605, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 1309, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 977, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 727, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 619, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 561, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 445, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 281, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 205, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 153, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 86, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 35, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 19, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 17, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 7, 0
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 2, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 1, 0
67, 580.00us to 589.99us, <590.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 104709, 199879, 1427

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 581, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 484, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 14, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 4, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 6634, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 54532, 1, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 32984, 5220, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 8574, 3570, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 5357, 4470, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 3749, 382, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 927, 12, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 63, 11, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 1, 61, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 40, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 20, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 17, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 26, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 6, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 113905, 13837, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 6
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 1, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 2855, 154
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 7823, 75
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 13633, 164
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 5224, 20
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 3229, 4
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 691, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 177, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 73, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 16, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 105, 2
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 5, 1
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 2, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 36
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 51
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 14
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 1
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 7
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 19
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 20
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 8
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 1
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 1
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 9
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 8
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 4
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 1
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 33834, 602

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 34, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 37, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 4, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 40, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 294, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 101, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 582, 2298, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 3131, 605, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 142, 435, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 3, 73, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 11, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 3858, 3858, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 91
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 33
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 40
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 20
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 185

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 22
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 35

this RATT is with all creative drivers disabled (2 regular, 6 or 7 hidden) and everything closed from process manager, as well as no windows explorers open or anything. Seems to be a lot better! This is still on 6ms usb buffer, will try lower soon, was at 4ms last night and had a couple of USB dropouts.. seems to be at the start of use though, fresh after windows boot, so probably background stuff..I make sure I boot at least 30 minutes before using now

Lastly would the use of an old style mouse connection help take a bit more strain off the USB buffer? I still have a 10 ten year old Acer ball wheel 2 button mouse that works perfectly and connects to the old style (keyboard style) connection

Some suggestions:

*finer tuning back into the internal mode, I remember one version at least had far better than 0.2% fine tuning of pitch, or some sort of customisable range in the setup for fine tuning pitch internal mode

*option to turn off Serato's vinyl track selection bit at the end of the control records.. a function to basically say I don't want this and to ignore it.. I only realised last night why Serato would be flipping wildly changing selection item every half a second.. glad I realised last night!

*i've bought a control record from a store and it was warped (bowed), I bought my Serato box still under warranty only 6 months old and both the records that came with it were also bowed, as the records come in a sealed package, can I still demand at a store to actually look at the vinyl? When I got home with the last record I bought (to replace at least one of the badly bowed control recs I got with Serato) it was a shame to see it had the exact same problem. And within an hour or so it was hard to tell which was the new vinyl also, so I didn't think it would be very moralistic to take back one of the older ones. Just letting you know this was rather annoying.

*rescan crates.. when a folder is set as a crate (dragged a folder to crate), option in setup to enable/disable scanning of crates upon startup .. looking for new files within those crates (this would save me 15-30 minutes every session after sorting my tunes, having to delete the crates and re-add every time

*some sort of internal mode pitch multiplier available to relative and absolute modes

thanks for all the help!

for last suggestion, some further clarification: so that with a limited deck, say Technics 1200 mk2 with only 8% pitch, it would be possible to do the 45/33, 2x, 33/45 etc functions etc that are currently available in the internal mode. This would mean that I could still do blends like I would at home (Vestax decks with 10% pitch) on Technics with only 8% shift. I really like mixing a broad range of music so the extra pitch ability really helps, without having to demand venues all carry mk5s hehe

Also, it would be awesome to have the internal mode controls still available for absolute or relative mode.. when I have used Serato on a big stage with a wide gap between laptop, mixer and decks, sometimes I run back and forth as I'm trying to select next track or look at display, would be good if had same controls for internal available for all other modes

These are the few things that have niggled at me while using

oops 'vinyl scroll' setting ahaha

I just upgraded to 1.9.1, good thing so that I looked more closely :) seems easier to see now , better contrast on gui :)

hey ninjagaijin,

Well that RATT looks good, I think you've definitely got your machine running well now :)


I can't say for sure but it could make a difference, have a go and see if it's better.

Thanks for the feature suggestions, if you'd like you can post them in the feature suggestions area of the forum to get feedback/support from other users -> www.serato.com (click link)


I'm not sure of what the official word is here, I'll get one of the guys from Rane to give you an answer, hold tight!

Hello ninjagaigin,

Unfortunately records get warped.
I worked at record stores for eight years prior to working for Rane and this is something we dealt with on a daily basis.
In most cases a record will have a slight bend.
The best rule of thumb is to open it up and look at it before you buy it, if the store will allow it. This was acceptable in the record shops I worked at.
Its also good to know that you can unwarp warped vinyl yourself which is probably going to be easier and less time consuming then tracking down a perfect control record.
Here is a tutorial that Q-Bert did regarding unwarping vinyl --> dj-spyder.blogspot.com

If you'd rather not go that route your other option is to send us your warped vinyl and we'll send you some more free of charge. Keep in mind, even if we make sure the vinyl we send out isn't warped, there could still be a chance of it getting warped in transit. This is the nature of vinyl. I, personally, would opt to unwarp it using the technique above to save time and money.

Thanks a lot for the tip Zach, had considered such things before but never really needed it for my wax, I always checked at the store etc, but now it is a little annoying.. from overuse however all 3x control records are now pretty much worn down over at least one side of each, so time for some new ones I think - just a more informed shopping experience next time I think and a different store :)

Sorry for late reply, played a show a few weeks back and had much to do since, having installed some programs again found the unknown device error again, but managed to narrow it down to these culprits via disabling them in safe mode with the ghosted/hidden device enabled: PnkBstrK (Punkbuster driver) and sptd

The below is a RATT from after clearing that and defragging hdds. Set latency to 6ms, using an old connection mouse to free up USB so nothing but Serato is connected. Got one dropout towards the end of a 3 hour mix afterwards, due to me changing from full screen to windowed to drag a file on the desktop over onto a deck. I really have to learn to search internally not externally! Other than that though, perfect apart from some poor tracking from my vinyl (need new control vinyl asap) and inferior tracking from my technics headshell/stanton 500v3 cart combo compared to my ortofon pink concorde with old stylus (bought second hand with decks) - I get sensitivty all the way to the left with the ortofon, half way with the stanton cart/technics headshell. Also seems to not track as well so I get bigger skips while doing backcueing from little to no input on my part. Just more sensitive a cart for the signal imo.

So I will do another test and see how my system is doing this week, as well as post a RATT for the laptop I am using, to see if anything needs clearing up there. I'm pretty sure this or the next RATT will be running fine however, for my system it just seems best to not do anything in windows explorer or desktop at the same time. In this I need to write hand written setlists, whereas normally I would flick alt-tab between notepad and serato, but hand written is better anyway (but not always easy to read in darker environments). A fix for this would be a small 'notes' area you could write in that could possibly also save between program shutdowns - so you could write 'great blend, x + y' instead of having to go through the history. I like to write down notes in prep for shows and I would like this feature, as a disable/enable switch in setup, for a very small notepad area in the bottom right corner, where the file browser extends currently. Sorry again for wrong area, I have started a suggestion thread, I will update this here, just thought of it now hehe

Thanks for the ongoing support, my last mix was my best ever thanks to the fixes gained through help here and being able to focus on mixing rather than technical support :) link (is.gd) - here is my RATT:
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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
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| From: FRI JU-24-2009 23:35:18.38
| To: FRI JU-24-2009 23:35:23.86
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 1, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 122, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 49, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 85, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 42, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 6, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 167, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 3, 0, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 153, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 7, 0
TOTALS, 475, 160, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: ks.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ks.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 6
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 7

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 351
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 977
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1345
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 313
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 209
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 61
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 2
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3263

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 6
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 18

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 674
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 672
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 250
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 154
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 26
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 18
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1795

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 19
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 150
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 127
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 63
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 14
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 20
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 396

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 49868, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 14293, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 1, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 1, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 2, 237
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 266
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 101
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 2015, 0, 66
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 22257, 0, 10
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 39690, 126, 296
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 448, 1, 79
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 3
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 1, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 92, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 947, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 1772, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 2259, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 2031, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 1159, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 807, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 619, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 657, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 1461, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 3797, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 3352, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 2399, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 2567, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 2773, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 3329, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 5152, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 4740, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 3068, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 2233, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 2753, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 3197, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 3207, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 2720, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 2163, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 1929, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 1047, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 444, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 284, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 279, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 243, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 214, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 195, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 158, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 122, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 102, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 74, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 40, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 13, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 4, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 4, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 2, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 64410, 128702, 1059

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 7, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 43, 1, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 53, 5399, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 139, 4341, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 454, 3494, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 7175, 263, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 3736, 8, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1854, 15, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 215, 52, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 10, 47, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 8, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 26, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 24, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 7, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 13686, 13686, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 10
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 1, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 3835, 99
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 6329, 92
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 10231, 34
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 3211, 8
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1834, 3
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 759, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 374, 1
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 122, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 17, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 41, 1
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 2
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 15
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 20
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 45
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 19
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 1
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 11
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 10
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 4
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 25
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 9
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 2
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 3
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 8
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 5
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 26754, 420

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 26, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 27, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 16, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 6, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 36, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 170, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 106, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1017, 2541, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 2799, 615, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 106, 406, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 39, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 2, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 2, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 5, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 3923, 3923, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 8
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 8
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 17
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 30

Hey ninjagaijin,

I'm really glad to hear that everything is working well, that RATT report looks good!


There is a notes column in the history screen where you can do this :)

ooo darn im still not even versed with the current version :) ty! Will post for laptop ASAP and see how that is looking :)

No worries, there's a lot of new features to take in :)

Ok let me know how it goes.

rarrrgh I just did a quick run through first time since last awesome mix other month, 20 mins in I get 2x drops at 5ms (*without* a power supply for SL1 connected - need to get another or recover my old one)

I immediately did a RATT but all seems good, it just seems that because I am using an open notepad with a list of tunes and alt-tabbing occasionally, it stuffs up, I dont get this problem unless using windows slightly at same time. Don't know what I can do, I'll try setting my USB higher and will get power supply soon and test at 5-10ms again, but would a slightly faster CPU perhaps help at all? Also after the 2nd dropout, there was a period of around 8 seconds where the left deck dropped out after reaching maybe 10 seconds into tune - i was cueing so other deck kept playing but it froze out the left deck and the tune came back again, but still scary

I'll post the RATT below but guess I'll just have to move that slider up a bit :( I don't want to go any higher than 10ms

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
|
| From: WED AUG-19-2009 19:7:13.82
| To: WED AUG-19-2009 19:10:23.71
| Runs: 2
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 3, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 563, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 325, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 405, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 328, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 36, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 905, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 7, 9, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 821, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 53, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 2572, 884, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipnat.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipnat.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 113
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1127
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1621
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 358
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 71
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 22
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 2
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 1
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3321

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 9
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 3
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 19

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 5
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 801
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 703
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 223
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 70
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 9
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 16
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1827

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 12
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 159
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 157
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 58
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 9
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 8
TOTALS, 0, 0, 403

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 6006, 88473, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 2771, 32501, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 151, 20, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 3, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 3, 47
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 2, 698
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 17, 1713
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 8454, 66, 375
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 37526, 28, 49
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 74794, 2896, 690
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 854, 114, 32
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 3, 2631, 1
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 2501, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1716, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1444, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 285, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 4897, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 7931, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 14102, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 6204, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 4103, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 3059, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 2587, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 2748, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 5363, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 6552, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 4476, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 3090, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 3977, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 6342, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 5850, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 5364, 1
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 5309, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 3919, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 2550, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 1854, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 2514, 1
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 3134, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 2374, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 1165, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 599, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 540, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 432, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 355, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 261, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 226, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 212, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 179, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 144, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 90, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 79, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 39, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 38, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 29, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 13, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 7, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 8, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 2, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 1, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 2, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 2, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 130559, 245424, 3607

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 62, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 12, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1416, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 4797, 4, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 708, 4870, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 2345, 4807, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 762, 3701, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 4187, 358, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 4940, 12, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 3215, 5, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 429, 44, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 19, 60, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 16, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 17, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 29, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 8, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 4, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 22893, 13936, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 13
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 12
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 11
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: CLASSPNP.SYS (\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\CLASSPNP.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 4650, 118
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 7163, 88
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 13235, 165
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 4396, 31
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 2314, 8
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 752, 1
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 208, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 67, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 15, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 76, 1
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 3, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 1
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 13
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 18
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 28
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 38
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 3
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 1
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 5
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 8
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 10
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 32
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 7
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 2
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 4
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 5
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 5
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 1
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 32879, 596

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 31, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 42, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 5, 0, 0
TOTALS, 78, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 12, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 85, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 52, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 356, 139, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 548, 142, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 31, 440, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 55, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 4, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 4, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 3, 0
TOTALS, 936, 936, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 14
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 18
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 34

It sounds like when you run other programs you have this problem, I'd recommend you try to avoid this if you can.

Your RATT report looks good, the USBPORT.SYS is returning high-ish values though.

I'd say bumping your buffer up a little bit should help :)

Would the USBPORT.SYS be further reduced with the power supply? But yeah I guess I'm going back to 6-7ms hehe, c'est la vie

as for avoiding other programs, yes this is definitely the problem.. but kind of hard I think to put 100+ tracks (written down) from notepad, into the little notes area of the history section - will try it to see but I am assuming I will need to scroll horizontally for a LONG time to see the entire 100 line list of tunes..

This is my personal way of overcoming the 'too many tunes' problem, but looks like I may need to go back to writing them down on paper instead

It should be yes :)


Yeah as much as it sucks if it's causing dropouts you'll need to stop using them :(

Hmm so I still don't have the power supply but I haven't been getting much USB dropout, usually once per hour or two. I'm currently using a USB laser mouse since my ball wheel died. I think I have an adaptor for a USB mouse to connect through the old style mouse port, I'll try to find that tonight.

I still need to run on the laptop, I got a new soundcard RME Hammerfall which I seem to have forgotten to disable before running the program. I also have my onboard sound installed and forgot to disable this too. I wonder if this might be attributable to this weird glitching I've been getting...

It's getting more frequent now every 5-10 minutes, tracks will skip.. suddenly the tune appears in another spot. While estimating I get decent sensitivity, but during playback it skips forward and also while backcueing (a bar or so skip forward). My control wax is not the freshest but still getting pretty solid circles apart from some small noise around it occasionally. Deck seems set up correctly, haven't had this issue really so much before. Seems to be more a problem on my right deck, with ortofon concorde cartridge. Maybe time for a needle change? Arghh!!

I'll go back through my processes and see if I can disable more again to get rid of the few dropouts, perhaps bump the buffer up to 10 again. As for the skipping, it's getting worrying. It happened twice with one tune around the same spot, but then the next track also. Sound like my turntable setup, or perhaps control, or perhaps software?

I'm now running all my tunes off a 5400rpm 250gb IDE/PATA hdd, perhaps too slow? I'm looking for a faster bigger SATA drive to connect via USB but pretty broke atm

RATT below:

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| Counts by driver for: BOCA
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| From: MON SEP-21-2009 10:32:10.98
| To: MON SEP-21-2009 10:32:33.86
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 5
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: digi96.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\digi96.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 56, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 1114, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 408, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 97, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 23, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 6, 0, 0
TOTALS, 1704, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: portcls.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\portcls.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 259, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 3147, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 4671, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 4670, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 13079, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 6127, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 37, 487, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 7948, 1263, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 14433, 1379, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 44535, 35594, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 549, 1821, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 3936, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 5084, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 6167, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 10486, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 22209, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 11775, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 2454, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 364, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 31, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 67502, 135004, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: rdbss.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 159
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 843
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1721
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 410
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 97
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 23
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 3
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3262

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 8
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 4
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 18

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 725
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 750
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 216
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 78
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 11
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 7
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1794

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 5
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 102
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 177
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 94
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 12
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 4
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 396

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 869, 43122, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 10463, 32297, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 29994, 13, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 15860, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 6829, 1, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 2923, 0, 317
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 293, 7, 1652
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 5492, 37, 687
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 15938, 25, 223
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 54041, 3185, 340
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 971, 245, 485
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 17, 3004, 127
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 2754, 2
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1905, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1763, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 743, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 453, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 264, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 385, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 2171, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 11275, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 7428, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 4363, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 1922, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 477, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 173, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 159, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 173, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 505, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 672, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 903, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 851, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 701, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 562, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 526, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 407, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 357, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 385, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 432, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 390, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 387, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 398, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 383, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 453, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 580, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 687, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 913, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 1147, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 1444, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 1499, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 1550, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 1679, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 2014, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 2297, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 2641, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 2550, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 2442, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 2386, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 1854, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 1062, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 549, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 313, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 184, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 108, 0
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 58, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 20, 0
67, 580.00us to 589.99us, <590.00us, 0, 9, 0
68, 590.00us to 599.99us, <600.00us, 0, 7, 0
70, 610.00us to 619.99us, <620.00us, 0, 2, 0
71, 620.00us to 629.99us, <630.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 143690, 154652, 3834

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 411, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 337, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 11, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 3, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 2, 0, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 592, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 33288, 3, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 11044, 1768, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 19083, 5822, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 4885, 5411, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 3977, 466, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 3052, 39, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1221, 10, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 178, 34, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 9, 45, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 20, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 13, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 42, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 16, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 78094, 13691, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 15
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 10
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 9
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 266, 108
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 3099, 116
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 14052, 145
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 6953, 44
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 4078, 7
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 1240, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 292, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 120, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 37, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 97, 1
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 9, 1
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 22
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 41
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 22
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 14
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 2
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 0, 3
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 0, 18
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 0, 21
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 0, 12
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 6
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 4
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 3
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 9
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 30243, 601

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 17, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 46, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 11, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 2, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 2, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 75, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 44, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 201, 131, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 375, 84, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 20, 245, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 15, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 597, 597, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 8
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 11
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 17
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 37

also forgot to mention will try to get my power supply back (left at venue, darnit!), or get another .. that should hopefully get rid of USB dropout issues finally (with some windows optimisation - I reset things to get all my programs to work, so I will once again go through selectively and disable things to get serato up to scratch [hehe]).

As for this skipping, kind of freaking me out! Was doing a good mix but twice this happened.. first time I realised my ground wire had pulled out of turnie (was getting far right sensitivity slider), but after that sensitivity went ok again.

I hope I can fix this new problem, I don't like it!

Hi ninjagaijin,

The RATT report looks pretty good, I'm confidient that using a power supply will lower those USBPORT.SYS values :)

I'd say the skipping issue us probably due to your turntables/needles/vinyl. Try playing in REL or INT mode, do you still get these skips?

Ok sorry for the super late reply, it's taken me a while to get the courage up to fix everything I could. And for the past month or so, i've been having a pretty darn good time with the SL1.. anyway, here is my current RATT, well, December 05th, 10ms usb, things going pretty well but say one dropout every few hours.

340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 3159, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 2817, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 2030, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 1318, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 781, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 677, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 759, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 797, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 925, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 741, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 597, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 441, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 322, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 205, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 115, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 80, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 50, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 19, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 11, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 2, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 41975, 83127, 1059

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 166, 0, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 293, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 62, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 2, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 2, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 16429, 0, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 8102, 9, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 2930, 6708, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 9657, 5350, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 6643, 520, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 1228, 60, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 4232, 6, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 3408, 0, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 873, 14, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 70, 44, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 37, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 13, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 16, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 42, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 13, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 54099, 12833, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 17
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 8
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 5
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 19, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 1357, 181
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 3064, 15
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 7118, 85
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 4505, 61
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 4253, 46
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 4769, 54
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 2881, 7
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 1719, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 799, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 705, 2
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 15, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 1
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 8
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 0, 30
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 15
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 8
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 27
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 12
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 0, 4
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 0, 6
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 8
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 3
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 20
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 4
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 1
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 1
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 0, 4
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 4
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 0, 2
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 0, 5
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 0, 15
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 31204, 631

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 5, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 28, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 29, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 9, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 5, 0, 0
TOTALS, 76, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 1, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 73, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 84, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 424, 141, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 796, 202, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 63, 697, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 2, 71, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 10, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 1, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 5, 0
TOTALS, 1285, 1285, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 4
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 7
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 15
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 6
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 4
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 30


Please tell me what you think of that - I still plan to get the power supply and adaptor to run my mouse in the old pin plug (instead of usual USB). But this is an ok report, running relative 10ms latency?

I'm thinking my external hdd is heating up a lot or something, it runs a lot better when I plan my set and copy the tunes to my system hdd or another internal. My external seems to have issues either when playing a couple of large wav files or even just mp3s. That's what i'm thinking anyway..

Because today I just had a dropout every 15 minutes of this mix. My system may have a new system process perhaps from an application or windows update, but it just seems sudden and unexpected since i've been not really having any issues, apart from the odd (every couple of hours) dropout.

To counter that, I've been pushing the latency slider to the right, now at the maximum setting.. i'll push the graphics down low soon too. Is this sort of random dropouts perhaps just due to the heat at the moment (it is particularly hot here at the moment, I would say 35-40 degrees in my room .. so the hdd and computer are a fair bit more than that.

Also, should I be closing my nvidia driver manager process, or leaving this running? I close it at the moment, figuring that less graphics processing will means more system processing for serato.. but is this perhaps detrimental to graphics/cpu performance, if I have low settings enabled? I'm guessing it's not so good since it's just taking up memory and cpu cycles .. but maybe I'm wrong?

Still got to get onto the laptop and give it a good test.. will probably be doing that real soon if these dropouts continue over summer!

I'm guessing it's heat mostly because my crap old laptop I use for recordings did a weird crash/hang (it didn't seem shut down but black screen and unresponsive) while recording this mix that did the dropouts, it crashed after only 45 minutes.. so maybe that is heat related.. but again, i'll probably go nuts for a while on that laptop trying to fix it as well in case it ISNT the heat.

So tired of technical issues.. i'm finally getting a real taste for Serato's potential and the time to do cue points and work on my mix techniques and tricks.. but every time I think I'm about to record that amazing mix, DROPOUT!

I'll check back with a new RATT after some more testing

oh, also yes thanks for advice, the skipping etc seemed to be bad grounding or something similar.. I couldn't really figure it out, probably dirty connection or bad leads - but replugging everything and checking everything out seemed to fix that issue, so thanks for that advice!

That RATT report looks like it's incomplete (the first part appears to be missing), but the values within seem pretty normal :)

Heat can definitely cause dropouts - if the computer starts to overheat you'll notice the preformance drop. You could look at getting a laptop cooling pad to counter this. If it only starts dropping out after a few hours then that's a good sign that computer is heating up.


It could be that the external hard drive is connected to a USB 1.0 port or needs an external power supply. Transferring data from an external hard drives is generally slower than an internal one due to it having to go via the USB bus.


If you don't need it then yes, close it down :) However if you find it performs worse with it turned off then you may need to leave it running.

I'll definitely get the power supply happening again.. also been blowing fans into my desktop to get it a bit cooler.. been VERY hot here in Australia recently.

Since last post I thought most of my issues were probably software related.. I had been having some troubles with different things and sfc /scannow wasn't working properly, so I reinstalled windows (without format so files/settings intact). This has seemed to help a lot, I've got my services down to a very small amount. This way i've also got rid of any old drivers lingering about.

I also bought some new control vinyls so will test it all out soon. I'm hoping the issues won't be so bad now that i've formatted.

I still need an external power supply but I have found an old mouse with the old connection, so this should take some stress off the USB. The USB is usb 2 port, I just think my external is a bit slow being an IDE 5400rpm drive..

When I get some extra money I hope to buy a nice 500GB+ size SATA drive + external case for DJ use, then I can put the IDE drive into my desktop as another backup drive.. because I'm still running an IDE system.

I think with these changes I shall finally have dropout-less playback .. I guess the last bottleneck is the external hdd.. I don't get so much trouble off my internal drives.. but I store all my tunes on the external. Playing longer wav files usually seems to be the main culprit.. so HDD upgrade it is. After this tho I will be pretty darn broke.. and I REALLY need a midi keyboard for production also!!

My mother was diagnosed with advanced lung + brain cancer last month so I am currently totally pre-occupied with caring for her and looking at all aspects of nutrition to try and give her the best chance she can get, before and during chemotherapy starting in 3 weeks. So I might not have time to play around for a while, and again I must push back my laptop RATT testing.. I apologise for how long this discussion is getting.

I hope that by the next entry I should have everything sorted, even without a new HDD

Thanks for the nvidia advice, I was worried maybe closing it down would mess with serato display and draw slower.. but I also figured probably dont need 3D acceleration features for serato!! I will close this down too

So I finally had a chance to try another mix since my last on NYE..

I don't have the power supply yet, but I am using an old mouse and throughout I had NO USB dropouts at all, on 15 ms latency. I didn't have a chance to do a RATT yet but I will ASAP. However, ... a big problem... I tried 2.0, and it did this problem also, so I reinstalled 1.92 in a different folder than default and now history isn't working. It stops on the 03rd Feb, very weird.. it was there .. then I turned off my external drive I think before exiting perhaps, or perhaps during.. and then since loading up my history doesn't work anymore and is wiped back to 03 Feb. I don't really care about the history so much at the moment, it IS a huge help for tracklisting mixes etc but I can live for a little while before having to fix this issue.

So there's THAT. Then I tried to do a mix on 1.92.. and the MAJOR issue happened AGAIN. Complete disappearing of both tunes visual displays from the decks. After it happened in 2.0, I turned down the visual settings to 15 seconds display and 20 refresh rate. STILL in 1.92 it did it again, after around 5-10 minutes into a mix. It lasted for around 4-5 seconds. I'm thinking it's probably my external hdd is either too slow (5400 rpm) or I might have disabled some service in services.msc that caused this, or lastly, my hdd might be faulty.

I'm really annoyed at all those options... hopefully it's the services I disabled however.

OR perhaps it's something from 2.0 messing with 1.92 ..

I didn't change anything as far as crates go while using 2.0.. I'll try uninstalling both apps and reinstall 1.92 again before trying another mix with more windows services enabled.

Disabling all the services DID really help my USB dropouts, since there were NONE! Which is what I've been trying to solve for a year now.. but this complete dropout thing is absolutely horrible.

I'll post the history disappearing bug into the beta bug report tomorrow and also another couple of things that have been annoying me in the recent and current versions (a glitch or two).

Any advice for this dropout thing?? I've only ever had it a couple of times, and never so severely as tonight.

I did another mix and the same thing happened.. any help plz???

here is the RATT from before it.. ran great again no USB dropouts but even with windows services enabled, after 2+ hours when I started to use more tunes off my external hdd, it did the drop out two or three times, shorter this time, for around 2-5 seconds each, but three times now..

I had to edit it out of my mix, the pauses, so it sounds like i've bumped the turntable or something.

Any advice please?? Could this be software/OS?? Hope so, as it only happened once or twice ever before now, early on before I set up windows properly for running Scratch Live.. if not, I assume I will need a new external hdd.. is there a speed difference between SATA/IDE? As an external drive, connected by USB or firewire, would it matter if SATA or IDE, since my system is IDE internally? Or would SATA be faster? I'll try for a new SATA drive anyway.. any recommendations for best hdd to use, does the bigger hdd cache size help, for hdds that have higher caches?

I'm uploading my mix at the moment to dnbshare.com (just search ninja if interested, called Alternative Therapies) - It's a bit sloppy because every time I try to get some practice actually mixing, I get disinterested when instead I need to deal with technical issues.. First mix since 2009 I have done and had hopes to do better.. so I really need to sort out this missing tracks/display thing ASAP.. been almost a year now with Serato trying to sort all this out.. (First post at 12:55 AM 20 April 2009)

Sorry here is the RATT I mentioned I would post:

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| Counts by driver for: BOCAA
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| From: SAT FEB-20-2010 11:54:29.86
| To: SAT FEB-20-2010 11:54:32.67
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: HTTP.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\HTTP.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 10
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 16

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 95, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 2216, 2, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 2691, 32, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1742, 16, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1783, 83, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 341, 231, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 429, 2733, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 4, 0
TOTALS, 9297, 3101, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 7

Cumulative Histogram for: srv.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\srv.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 1
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 1
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 7
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 4
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 18

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 309
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 772
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 238
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 242
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 49
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 36
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1646

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 29
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 161
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 91
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 53
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 35
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 27
TOTALS, 0, 0, 396

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 24764, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 16359, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1026, 13, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 10659, 5, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 17918, 1, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 4077, 0, 347
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1820, 0, 2
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 2139, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1325, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2321, 5, 80
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 3, 0, 214
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 0, 54
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 0, 1
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 3, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 12, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 1, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 5, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 5, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 112, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 1071, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 5682, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 5880, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 2780, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 751, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 306, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 554, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 1644, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 819, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 374, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 353, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 498, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 708, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 529, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 603, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 468, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 478, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 512, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 617, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 842, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 1037, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 1275, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 1169, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 992, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 738, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 748, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 695, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 774, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 1314, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 1030, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 831, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 1197, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 1370, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 910, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 543, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 481, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 188, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 135, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 102, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 96, 0
64, 550.00us to 559.99us, <560.00us, 0, 31, 0
65, 560.00us to 569.99us, <570.00us, 0, 15, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 6, 0
67, 580.00us to 589.99us, <590.00us, 0, 3, 0
72, 630.00us to 639.99us, <640.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 41288, 82435, 698

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 145, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 7, 3, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 3, 10827, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 2, 3314, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 1130, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 8416, 5, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 5112, 1, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1742, 0, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 32, 94, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 43, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 1, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 28, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 14, 0
TOTALS, 15460, 15460, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 18
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 6
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 7
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 2
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 4, 87
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 103, 101
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 303, 121
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 368, 39
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 1247, 16
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 2017, 25
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 1671, 12
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 1767, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 994, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 1567, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 15
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 9
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 57
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 35
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 4
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 3
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 7
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 10
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 19
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 15
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 3
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 0, 1
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 10041, 583

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 14, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 40, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 18, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 5, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 61, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 128, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 203, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 58, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 44, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 24, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 24, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 183, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 574, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 3898, 1197, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 45, 516, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 156, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 50, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 4, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 3, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 1, 0, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 3945, 3225, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltMgr.sys (fltMgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 3

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 89
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 6
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 16
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 51
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 14
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 183

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 3
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 23
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 30

Any help with this would be appreciated ASAP.. is this a HDD issue?? Or software?

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Hey Ninja,

Sorry about the delay on this. As I said, Michael is the owner of this post and he's been on vacation:)

Anyhow.. As far as your current issue.. just to be clear.. its that your waveforms are dropping out and your History is bunged up?

As for your History.. sounds like this was caused by using 2.0.
My guess is all you'll need to do to fix the issue when using 1.9.2 is to delete the History folder inside the ScratchLIVE folder on your internal drive.
This will clear out the History database which is probably corrupt at which point it should work properly.

As for the waveform dropouts... this is generally due to a hard drive not being able to buffer fast enough. My guess is if you took the external out of the equation and just used your internal drive the problem won't appear.
If so, then I would make sure you have a backup of the info on your external and then try defragging the drive.
If your still having issues I would try using a completely different external.

Let us know your findings;)

Hey Zach, thanks for reply yes got your mail :)

The issue at the moment, I fixed the history so that's fine, it's that when accessing the external for tunes, the waveform display AND the audio drops out, for BOTH tracks, simultaneously, in the middle of a mix (a few minutes in, beat mixed, in the mix both tracked blended). Only started happening since installing 2.0, happened on the 2.0 beta release 1, again on 1.92 dual install, removed all installs and reinstalled 1.92 clean (having deleted folder) and happened again :(

I did clear the history folder and all was good for that issue, easy fix :)

I'm guessing that my hdd buffer and 5400 rpm speed is too slow :(

I'll start saving hehe .. for the meantime, have to copy files to internal before mixing, this I assume will fix my issues

I defragged my external and internal, always have done this, using Perfect Disk's 'smart defragment' option, which orders data by 'most recently modified', so it orders 'rarely modified', 'often modified', 'recently modified'.. but still the external doesn't seem good enough.. guessing 8MB buffer.

So 32MB-128MB buffer would be pretty important I'm assuming, for play of 2x big 320 cbr mp3s even, little alone long 48khz WAV files..

Hi ninjagaijin,

It could be a few things regarding the external hard drive - the rpm speed is too slow, the hard drive itself is faulty or the USB port can't transfer the data quickly enough. In the latter case, if the hard drive is a USB 2.0 device make sure it is connected to a USB 2.0 port and if it has an external power supply make sure it is connected.

I'll try getting the power supply working again first at it didn't seem to have this issue before

So my strategy before reporting back will be a) power supply
b) firewire PCI card to connect my IDE external enclosure this way
c) purchase a firewire + USB SATA HDD and external enclosure, making sure the HDD has at least 7200rpm and a 32+ MB buffer minimum, preferably 64-128MB.

Thank you for the advice, I almost forgot about the power supply since losing my last at a venue when I was promoting the show as well as playing (and doing mostly everything else hehe) - this will be a lot easier to for me to get another power supply at this stage than a new hard disk.

Oh and I hope you had a lovely time off! You guys work harder than any other vinyl emulation team I know of :)

Best of luck with 2.0 and eventually - 3.0 :)

Haha thanks, I did have a great holiday :)

Sounds like you're on the right track with your strategy. Definitely try the power supply first - it may be the solution to your issue and may save you some money ;)

Good to hear :) hopefully soon able to wind up this discussion after recent events:

I have taken all this time to reinstall windows finding out that my internal system drive on my desktop was only a 2MB buffer and was only 5400rpm, so I've swapped that for an 8MB buffer 7200 rpm drive (the same size, 80GB) to lessen the burden somewhat.. Also now with a totally new install again this should get rid of any potential software/driver issues that might have caused the issues.

Also just got some money so decided to upgrade my external... I bought a firewire 800 connection SATA 3.5" external hdd enclosure, which cost a fair bit, as well as a WD green 500GB 32mb cache 7200 drive and a firewire 800 pci card, so everything should run a whole lot faster, apart from the system drive bottleneck of IDE 8MB buffer hard drive.. but thinking as this will be at least 2-3x better speeds than the 2MB cache Maxtor I had before, this might have been enough alone to fix it up..

But I thought to really make sure, I would get the BEST firewire connections so as to totally take my file accessing off USB, so I hopefully won't get any trouble with latency.

I also bought a new regulated 9V power supply to use to further reduce USB latency/strain, using an old style mouse connection so no USB mouse either. I've disabled all the unused communication, printer and USB ports.

Still no time to do a test yet (having just got the new hard drive and spending the time to make a copy of all my musics as backup on my old external and copying to the new one) but I'm hoping this should be all I would need to do to get my problems fixed, I'm anxious and eager to try it out again :)

Finally, I found a slightly better PC on the road that was thrown out, while my PC is Athlon XP 2.0ghz CPU, this is an Intel 3.0ghz with hyper threading, but only has 512MB RAM (while i'm using 2GB with my Athlon). I'm thinking however that if I still have the issues, there are only three possible culprits: 1) My CPU being damaged/degraded a bit as it's been used quite overheated continually (over 6 years now, running standard 50 celcius, but sometimes up to 80-90 celcius for up to 6 months at a time !!! Before learning about thermal paste!!), 2) C:\ system disk not good enough with only 8MB cache, and/or 3) general overheating of something else..

So WORST case I can now test Serato on the new desktop I have - having only 512MB RAM I would just go through windows and disable almost everything and install almost no programs and keep it mainly for Serato and digital audio recording.

Lastly, Scratch Live 2.0 is now out - would I benefit from the new version? Or is 1.92 still preferable for lower spec'd systems? I love some of the new features, especially the effects..

Sounds like a lot of good changes, let me know when you've done some testing to see if it performs better :)


The new features like effects and SL 3 Third Deck will use a lot more system resources. You should download it and have a try, if you find that you're having performance issues when using the effects however you may need to look at investing in a more powerful machine.

Thanks for the reply, I've gone back to 1.92 for testing purposes.

I have got my firewire 800 external hdd & pci card installed - so now the ONLY USB item I am using in Serato itself. Only one external hdd connected via firewire 800.

I haven't had a chance to do a proper test in relative/absolute modes yet due to being real busy with my sick mother, but hope to test it out ASAP and report back here with a proper RATT (also to try my new slipmats out heheh).

It seems to be running a lot better/faster now but only time will tell if dropouts occur - even with the work I've done, with this external hdd connected to USB2 port, it still gave me a whole lot of dropouts on my last mix, perhaps 3-4 an hour at least, sometimes more, over a 4 hour mix ( dnbshare.com ). So I really hope this firewire fixes it, because I was hoping USB connection would work for external also, with the new 32mb cache 7200 rpm 500GB SATA hdd.

If the firewire doesn't fix it, I'm guessing my 2ghz processor just isn't enough (I could do a final upgrade of this rig with a 2.6ghz or something similar single core CPU for around $60 AUD I think).. or that my FSB/mobo is bottlenecking or the fact the system is IDE/PATA. BUT this is a 2004 system all pimped out, so I figured it would be able to hack it.. maybe I need to try an older Serato version, like 1.7 ?

Anyway, here's hoping for the next test to work well!

And here is my last RATT, a quick test one, with 20 sec usb lastency..Scratch Live v1.92, 40 display frame rate, 15 sec audio cache, internal decks.. (because I was getting dropouts even with internal mode occasionally before, if using off the external hdd)..

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| Counts by driver for: BOCAA
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| From: TUE APR-20-2010 3:7:37.75
| To: TUE APR-20-2010 3:7:41.83
| Runs: 1
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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: arp1394.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\arp1394.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 12
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 18
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 3
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 3, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 48, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 48, 36, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 2142, 43, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 2115, 67, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1531, 81, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1170, 207, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 229, 398, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 160, 1582, 0
TOTALS, 7395, 2465, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 3
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 541
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 746
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 248
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 202
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 33
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 20
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1790

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 23
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 209
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 108
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 46
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 7
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 3
TOTALS, 0, 0, 396

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 9716, 20297, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 12924, 13497, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 19490, 37, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 12566, 19, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 4561, 35, 2
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 6375, 33, 346
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 2059, 20, 1
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 160, 21, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 39, 41, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 272, 21, 382
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 0, 316
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 170, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 524, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 345, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 229, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 113, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 63, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 88, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 392, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 956, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 580, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 513, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 1560, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 2668, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 982, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 739, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 947, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 1226, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 3478, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 3031, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 1291, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 1000, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 1160, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 1496, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 1497, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 1674, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 1171, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 536, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 371, 0
47, 380.00us to 389.99us, <390.00us, 0, 276, 0
48, 390.00us to 399.99us, <400.00us, 0, 276, 0
49, 400.00us to 409.99us, <410.00us, 0, 327, 0
50, 410.00us to 419.99us, <420.00us, 0, 394, 0
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 525, 0
52, 430.00us to 439.99us, <440.00us, 0, 603, 0
53, 440.00us to 449.99us, <450.00us, 0, 688, 0
54, 450.00us to 459.99us, <460.00us, 0, 629, 0
55, 460.00us to 469.99us, <470.00us, 0, 557, 0
56, 470.00us to 479.99us, <480.00us, 0, 376, 0
57, 480.00us to 489.99us, <490.00us, 0, 242, 0
58, 490.00us to 499.99us, <500.00us, 0, 139, 0
59, 500.00us to 509.99us, <510.00us, 0, 89, 0
60, 510.00us to 519.99us, <520.00us, 0, 34, 0
61, 520.00us to 529.99us, <530.00us, 0, 21, 0
62, 530.00us to 539.99us, <540.00us, 0, 13, 0
63, 540.00us to 549.99us, <550.00us, 0, 3, 0
66, 570.00us to 579.99us, <580.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 68162, 68014, 1047

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 3, 0, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 2, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 2, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 123, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 264, 750, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 420, 8714, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 382, 4162, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 429, 1641, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 4197, 43, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 6062, 3, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 3497, 0, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 119, 25, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 40, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 31, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 10, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 54, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 16, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 2, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 15500, 15493, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 17
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 3
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 15
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: 1394BUS.SYS (\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\1394BUS.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 4, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 244, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 97, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 30, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 21, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 4, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 21, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 69, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 2718, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 41, 0
TOTALS, 0, 3249, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 1155, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 10322, 164
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 7275, 44
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 6980, 127
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 4156, 46
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 4613, 14
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 3638, 6
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 1421, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 832, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 237, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 135, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 0, 3
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 1
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 4
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 57
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 0, 7
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 9
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 29
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 9
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 2
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 22
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 7
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 2
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 0, 3
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 14
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 10
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 40764, 582

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 3, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 9, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 42, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 18, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 5, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 3, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 3, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 64, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 167, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 166, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 50, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 36, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 25, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 13, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 32, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 24, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2845, 709, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 55, 732, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 141, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 10, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 5, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 4, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 2, 0
TOTALS, 2900, 2180, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 1
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: NDIS.sys (NDIS.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 21
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 18
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 30
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 12
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 9
TOTALS, 0, 0, 90

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 11
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 16
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 5
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 1
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 34

Cumulative Histogram for: ohci1394.sys (ohci1394.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 4, 128, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 6108, 365, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 8000, 1884, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 4853, 1234, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 1828, 15, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1099, 7, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 10, 272, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 2, 1381, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 20, 1092, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 17, 43, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 49, 63, 0
TOTALS, 21990, 6484, 0

Should just specify, the mix with dropouts was done using the new hdd with USB2 connection, before I got my firewire 800 PCI card last week. Also, the RATT shown is from my first test WITH the firewire 800 connection, but without fully playing (internal rather than relative/absolute). Sorry I think I made clear above but not too sure so felt to surmise might help hehe.

WORST case I found a computer on the side of road in a box with sticker on it 'hard drive removed' - and it's 3.0ghz ht intel, but only 512MB of older RAM. Also I didn't have a spare SATA drive for it, so have put an old 40GB IDE with 2MB cache as system disk, so even though it has less bottlenecks, at the moment without a serious upgrade, it won't be much better. I could later pursue this option however.. OTHERWISE.. I guess entire upgrade to mac laptop or new PC laptop or relatively recent second hand laptop would be the final option (not that I could foreseeably afford this anytime soon)? The other option would be to just use my girlfriend's laptop (which I STILL haven't used since last shows and really need to get a RATT done on) - but this is not preferable since we use it for a lot more tasks and it would be a big ordeal every time using to optimise windows properly, and then set back to normal after using. Not to mention all the drivers and things installed on it which would be more of a pain to remove than to keep. Also, this is always in use by my partner, so not really an option.

*fingers crossed*

Hey ninjagaijin,

The RATT report shows that USBPORT.SYS is still causing dropouts. It may just be that the USB driver for your computer is just not capable enough for audio streaming, upgrading the CPU won't help this. As your computer is nearly 6 years old it may be that you will need to look at upgrading, as chances are there won't be updated drivers released for a computer that old.

Hmm I will try a different USB cable - I might be using a USB 1 cable now I am more savvy with this stuff.. also I can totally stop using the old VIA mobo USB, because I have USB 2 port on my firewire 800 PCI card too :)

Thanks this should help out a lot!! Before next mix I'll disable all USB ports in bios and uninstall drivers etc, then use my new firewire/usb PCI card instead.. it is a cheaper Chinese no name brand but was the only one I could easily find with firewire 800..

Has to be the USB cable or port as I was only using USB for Serato, in Internal mode!! So that must be the answer :)

If my firewire 800/usb PCI card STILL has driver issues as well, I will attempt to use my motherboard ethernet connection again (as I was using a PCI card for this), and use that PCI slot for a new USB PCI card from well-supported manufacturer (with recent drivers etc).

But this advice you give has given me hope - Now with my hdd on firewire 800 and having the new USB 2 port available should hopefully fix this problem! It has a texas instruments chipset so I'm hoping it should run fine

I will however also have a quick look at the Asus website to see if there are new chipset and mobo drivers, but I strongly doubt it.. I do try to keep up to date in the area of drivers and I don't think there has been a revision since at least 2006.

I'll get on this and get back to you.

2x quick bugs - 1) since I've ever known, when analysing files, it always says one more file than there really is (so say 40 files shown, it gets to 39 then is finished).. and starts on 0 instead of 1.. so analysing file 0 of 40 .. then last file is file 39 of 40.
Small thing but shouldn't be hard to fix

2) If you modify a file's tags within Serato AFTER dropping the NEW (to be analysed) files into a crate, it then won't bother analysing it. I rip tunes from CD, drag to crate, start adding album and artist mp3 tag data and then it won't scan, I have to drag each tune individually to the player and let it scan that way - sometimes this way it also won't give a BPM reading when otherwise it would have .. but 2.0 seemed to have fixed the bpm thing, it now usually gives bpm even with this method. But kind of annoying since it's good to use the time while analysing to sort and fix tags, but if you do, you have to remember to analyse them all one by one manually, which is easy to forget and time consuming to do one by one.

I'll repost all my suggestions and bug reports at a later date in new threads when life is not so hectic but write here so at least it is somewhere on the forum for you to read in case you can fix these easily. I won't have too much time to get this sorted as my mother is in hospital and quite ill and I am taking care of her affairs, but I have been preparing a set list/order of tunes and very excited to give this new setup a spin.

Finally, if it is JUST the USB ports that are giving me grief, the new PC I found on the roadside would probably do a lot better - but it only has 512MB ram, that would be an issue when using a 500GB external hdd with 300GB filled? Upgrading the ram wouldn't be too hard tho, only around $150 for 4GB or 80 for 2GB. But I wonder if this might work even with 512MB RAM?

Thanks for all your help again, will get onto it and report back ASAP.

Ahhh another thing I need to ask - I've just been looking at my firewire 800/USB 2 pci card - it only has USB mini B connection.. and it seems impossible to find a USB 2.0 MALE B to MINI MALE B cable. But I have managed to find an adaptor, USB 2.0 FEMALE A to MINI MALE B adaptor, I hope this will work - www.belkin.com

I'm not sure if that product is exactly FEMALE A to MINI MALE B, but have asked them. Otherwise there seem to be ones for sale on Ebay and elsewhere but I prefer to buy a name brand.

Do you think such an adaptor would in any way degrade the performance of the USB? I hope/assume not, but thought should check first.

Otherwise, there seems to be no way to connect my Serato to MINI MALE B connection.. I could also get a MALE B to FEMALE A adaptor instead to connect directly to the Serato box.. either way, need to know if this will cause any issues by use of an adaptor. Hoping not.

If so I can try to get my VIA ethernet port working again .. the reason I use a PCI ethernet card I think was because the VIA mobo port messed up a year ago, but could have just been my setup. Worst case I will try again, so that I could try to free up one of my 3x PCI slots for another USB 2.0 PCI card.

I would prefer to use the adaptor though, as this would only cost me $10-15.

I really just want to start mixing after a long year of tech issues

Awaiting your reply anxiously :)

Ahh actually realised it just has 1394a and 1394b x2 ports, so my option would be to somehow use a cable or adaptor to connect Serato through firewire 400 or 800 port.. would this work? Or would Serato drivers not work this way?

It would seem that I would need to get a new PCI card with some new USB 2.0 or 3.0 ports? :(

In the meantime I will try a shorter cable and different USB cables.

So would this be possible to connect Serato via firewire?

No, you won't be able to use the SL 1 via a Firewire connection sorry. I'm a bit confused as to what ports will be available on the PCI card you've purchased, are you able to give me a link to the model?

In regards to the bugs you've posted:





I'm afraid I can't reproduce either of these issues :( How are you analyzing your files - do you just click the analyze files button, or drag your crates/files onto the anaylze files button? Also which version of Scratch Live are you currently running - 2.0?

I was dragging in v 2.0 (I just use for scanning and preparing sets, love the new features for preparing etc), dragging my 'NEW' folder to 'SORTING MP3S' crate.. i'll try to replicate again myself with some fresh CD rips and see how it works

Sorry for all the silly posts above including about firewire usage etc - was a little out of it by that stage trying to figure out what to do..

My conclusion is to get this: www.harristechnology.com.au

Belkin should be decent drivers I hope :)

I have a pickup order for the USB PCI card for today - would be great if someone could quickly say if this is ok! I'm sure Belkin drivers would be ok? Got to head off in the next half hour or so so if possible an answer ASAP would be awesome :) worst case I waste $30 and have to buy another haha. But hopefully this should do the trick!!

I WISH I had taken the advice given earlier about possible bad USB ports or drivers. But still was a great excuse to pimp out my old rig to max potential :)

I can still return it as I haven't yet opened it. So please let me know :)

Hope you can let me know this week, I assume I would need to return within 7 days

Hey ninjagaijin,

On paper it all looks ok :) Belkin are a pretty good brand so hopefully it works for you. Have you had a chance to try it out?

No I was waiting to hear from you before opening the package.. will try in the next week or so

Of course. Well I can't guarantee that this will help, but I hope that it does :)

Yes I understand :) perhaps NOTHING can help my old wheezy pooter. :)

I just had the motherboard ethernet port stop working again!! I will try final reinstall of drivers but right now i'm looking at what i Hope to be perhaps the last thing for this conundrum - an Ethernet USB adapter so that I can use one of the USB ports on my new PCI card for network access (when Not using Serato).. as I only have 3x PCI, I don't have a spot for a network card anymore.

As gaming isn't a focus for me anymore (no one plays the game I play anymore online hehe) and if for some reason I did play I think this adapter would not really be much of an issue for ping or connection speed. I am sad to see my dedicated card go though.. but it will be worth it if this new USB PCI card solves my problems.

I'll connect it up within the next few nights and do a bit of cleanup of drivers from these removed devices and get onto a new, brighter RATT :)

For the meantime, with my USB onboard disabled, I'm obviously getting no USB dropouts. So I might be going a bit mental by this stage but it feels good in a way - no USB but no dropouts hee hee :)

As mentioned previously if this doesn't stick i'll look at upgrading my 'new'(er) PC in the long term or a whole new box (very long term this stage).. short term I will try to work around my girlfriend and use her laptop. Will take a while to configure it though as there is a million things on it..

Thanks again for all the help, hoping will be able to tick that fixed box soon :)

I managed to fix my onboard ethernet with drivers .. seemed to be the default microsoft drivers from last clean format were the issue.. so I installed the new USB PCI card. Seems really good... in this test I only used internal mode, did a bit of visual beat mixing with some 7 minute wave files on my external.

It seemed to run real sweet, I don't think it would dropout like this.. I'll give it a real run in the next few days and do a proper RATT in relative mode.

Anyway I hope this is better now.. if not, it's my motherboard?

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Cumulative Histogram for: afd.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 2
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: i8042prt.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 1, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 29, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 26, 15, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 2809, 24, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 3044, 53, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 1987, 47, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 1737, 171, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 236, 419, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 171, 2510, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 7, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 2, 0, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 0, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1, 0, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 1, 0, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 1, 0, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1, 2, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 97, 1, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 71, 103, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 13, 0
TOTALS, 10185, 3395, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ipsec.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 2
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 2
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 6

Cumulative Histogram for: ousbehci.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\ousbehci.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 51, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 117, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 4, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 3, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 1, 0, 0
TOTALS, 176, 0, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: tcpip.sys (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 3
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 948
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 557
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 201
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 70
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 7
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 4
TOTALS, 0, 0, 1790

Cumulative Histogram for: TDI.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\TDI.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 0, 10
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 0, 159
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 0, 89
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 0, 100
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 0, 22
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 0, 9
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 1
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 6
TOTALS, 0, 0, 396

Cumulative Histogram for: USBPORT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\USBPORT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 7540, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 5256, 33148, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 44618, 283, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 22683, 7, 64
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 6764, 2, 266
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 4481, 1, 19
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 2087, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 566, 17, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 146, 40, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 166, 7, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 218, 0, 290
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 1, 25, 55
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 0, 4885, 4
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 10377, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 3, 14172, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 1, 6098, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 2, 5533, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 4927, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 353, 4516, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 114, 7067, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 1, 4234, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 1911, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 1651, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 2777, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 3327, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 3082, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 0, 2064, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 0, 1519, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 1772, 0
29, 200.00us to 209.99us, <210.00us, 0, 1869, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 943, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 518, 0
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 516, 0
33, 240.00us to 249.99us, <250.00us, 0, 765, 0
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 1089, 0
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 788, 0
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 393, 0
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 221, 0
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 177, 0
39, 300.00us to 309.99us, <310.00us, 0, 120, 0
40, 310.00us to 319.99us, <320.00us, 0, 83, 0
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 67, 0
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 44, 0
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 26, 0
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 8, 0
45, 360.00us to 369.99us, <370.00us, 0, 4, 0
46, 370.00us to 379.99us, <380.00us, 0, 3, 0
TOTALS, 87460, 128616, 698

Cumulative Histogram for: VIDEOPRT.SYS (\SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\VIDEOPRT.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 3, 0, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 5, 0, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 1, 0, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 2, 0, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 1, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 22, 0, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 151, 0, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 13, 104, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 72, 8000, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 108, 4105, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 191, 1795, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 3629, 25, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 6044, 7, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 2884, 6, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 127, 117, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 21, 8, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 15, 10, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 16, 266, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 13, 554, 0
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 32, 397, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 152, 38, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 1083, 0, 0
26, 170.00us to 179.99us, <180.00us, 736, 0, 0
27, 180.00us to 189.99us, <190.00us, 169, 22, 0
28, 190.00us to 199.99us, <200.00us, 0, 16, 0
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 2, 0
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 6, 0
TOTALS, 15490, 15478, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: watchdog.sys (\SystemRoot\System32\watchdog.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 0, 14
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 9
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 12
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 36

Cumulative Histogram for: 1394BUS.SYS (\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\1394BUS.SYS)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 50, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 293, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 70, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 17, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 10, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 5, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 10, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 23, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 2757, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 23, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 0, 1, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 6, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 49, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 19, 0
TOTALS, 0, 3333, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: ntoskrnl.exe (\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 0, 400, 2
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 7174, 123
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 6725, 77
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 7913, 128
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 4375, 55
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 3958, 14
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 1985, 5
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 931, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 417, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 131, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 0, 81, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 0, 0, 1
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 0, 5
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 0, 0, 2
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 0, 0, 25
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 0, 3, 10
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 0, 0, 6
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 0, 52
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 0, 18
23, 140.00us to 149.99us, <150.00us, 0, 0, 1
30, 210.00us to 219.99us, <220.00us, 0, 0, 6
31, 220.00us to 229.99us, <230.00us, 0, 0, 9
32, 230.00us to 239.99us, <240.00us, 0, 0, 3
34, 250.00us to 259.99us, <260.00us, 0, 0, 16
35, 260.00us to 269.99us, <270.00us, 0, 0, 6
36, 270.00us to 279.99us, <280.00us, 0, 0, 1
37, 280.00us to 289.99us, <290.00us, 0, 0, 2
38, 290.00us to 299.99us, <300.00us, 0, 0, 1
41, 320.00us to 329.99us, <330.00us, 0, 0, 6
42, 330.00us to 339.99us, <340.00us, 0, 0, 2
43, 340.00us to 349.99us, <350.00us, 0, 0, 4
44, 350.00us to 359.99us, <360.00us, 0, 0, 3
51, 420.00us to 429.99us, <430.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 34093, 584

Cumulative Histogram for: ACPI.sys (ACPI.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 1, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 20, 0, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 36, 0, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 16, 0, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 5, 0, 0
TOTALS, 77, 1, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: atapi.sys (atapi.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 28, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 99, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 171, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 67, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 0, 61, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 0, 25, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 10, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 0, 22, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 0, 40, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 2777, 646, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 83, 832, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 1, 112, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 7, 0
14, 50.00us to 59.99us, <60.00us, 1, 3, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 0, 6, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 0, 2, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1, 1, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 1, 5, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 52, 9, 0
20, 110.00us to 119.99us, <120.00us, 13, 36, 0
21, 120.00us to 129.99us, <130.00us, 0, 23, 0
22, 130.00us to 139.99us, <140.00us, 0, 2, 0
24, 150.00us to 159.99us, <160.00us, 0, 2, 0
25, 160.00us to 169.99us, <170.00us, 0, 1, 0
TOTALS, 2930, 2210, 0

Cumulative Histogram for: fltmgr.sys (fltmgr.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 0, 0, 4
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 10
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 1
TOTALS, 0, 0, 15

Cumulative Histogram for: Ntfs.sys (Ntfs.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 0, 0, 4
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 0, 0, 27
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 0, 0, 2
TOTALS, 0, 0, 33

Cumulative Histogram for: ohci1394.sys (ohci1394.sys)
#, Range, Label, ISR Count, DPC Count, DPCTmr Count
0, 0.00us to 0.99us, <1.00us, 10, 237, 0
1, 1.00us to 1.99us, <2.00us, 5106, 423, 0
2, 2.00us to 2.99us, <3.00us, 9863, 2098, 0
3, 3.00us to 3.99us, <4.00us, 5885, 989, 0
4, 4.00us to 4.99us, <5.00us, 831, 7, 0
5, 5.00us to 5.99us, <6.00us, 242, 10, 0
6, 6.00us to 6.99us, <7.00us, 2, 989, 0
7, 7.00us to 7.99us, <8.00us, 0, 1275, 0
8, 8.00us to 8.99us, <9.00us, 16, 481, 0
9, 9.00us to 9.99us, <10.00us, 37, 23, 0
10, 10.00us to 19.99us, <20.00us, 55, 42, 0
11, 20.00us to 29.99us, <30.00us, 0, 1, 0
12, 30.00us to 39.99us, <40.00us, 1, 0, 0
13, 40.00us to 49.99us, <50.00us, 1, 0, 0
15, 60.00us to 69.99us, <70.00us, 1, 2, 0
16, 70.00us to 79.99us, <80.00us, 1, 3, 0
17, 80.00us to 89.99us, <90.00us, 1, 0, 0
18, 90.00us to 99.99us, <100.00us, 86, 51, 0
19, 100.00us to 109.99us, <110.00us, 15, 32, 0
TOTALS, 22153, 6663, 0

I can't really read the RATT..

Do you want low ISR/DPC?

Or one higher than the other or something?

Or is it like under 1000 for DPCTmr ?

Because I can see they are all under 1000 :) :)

I hope we near the end of this thread!! :) :) :) A long year

Hey ninjagaijin,

That RATT report looks much better, especially the values returned by USBPORT.SYS :)

Ideally you want values < 500.00us, anything over that is of concern.

Hmm I tried another program and was mostly 500-600 .. DPC latency checker - www.thesycon.de

(looks like a great program to use on new computers to test for issues, works for Windows 7, Windows 7 x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows 2000)

I did a test run and NO USB dropouts.. but after about an hour of sorting tunes and then 15-30 minutes of actually playing, my external hdd dropped out.. i've switched firewire ports on both the external and the firewire PCI card to see if it's a bodgy port on either end, will also try isolating by testing external with laptop usb 2.0 connection (when I can afford the USB cable required). I have no other firewire connections on my PCs however to test if it is just the firewire card I recently purchased (seriously no-name Chinese made no model but with texas instruments chipset). Hoping it's just the port.

Using the other firewire 800 ports, I did another test and it seemed to be fine for over an hour. By that stage I was exhausted however so will have to do a full (and hopefully final!) test when next get the chance in a few days.

So happy to not see the USB dropouts finally, but it's scary to see my decks disappear as my external stops responding!! I can always try the firewire 400 ports if required if I have bodgy firewire 800 ports. Wah, firewire 800 is sexy.. here's hoping the other ports fix it.

Thanks again for all the help, I understand the RATT a lot better now. I think I might be able to use Serato finally!! Very excited.. just got to sort my crates ASAP :)

Yeah the DPC Latency Checker is a good tool, unfortunately it can't tell you which processes are causing the dropouts like the RATT tool can.

Well that's great news that you're not getting the USB dropouts anymore :) The dropouts from your hard drive will be like you said either due to PCI card or the drive itself. Do you have another computer that you can try the drive on just to make sure it's not the drive that's the problem?

I can test the drive on another system but need to get a USB 2.0 mini b male to a male to connect to anything (as the external has firewire 400/800 esata & usb 2.0 mini b female connections) ..

I am sure it's my own fault however. I had disabled one of the two ports (texas instruments chipset drivers in device manager), in order to 'optimise' the firewire like the usb disabling.. but unfortunately it messed up when I tried to use the second port, after the first messed up. I assume the first probably messed up because I had also disabled the ARP 1394 hidden device driver, not knowing what it was for, and also the 1394 net connection. I assume the net connection is fine to leave disabled..

Since mucking around I've managed to be unable to get the 2nd port working at all now, also have lost my firewire adaptor from device manager altogether, done many things to try and fix and now at the end of my tether. I'll do one more reboot to see if it shows up now (currently i'm getting unknown printer device trying to install!!) .. and then will format.. for the third time in as many months. Arghh!! Oh well, as soon as I format I'm sure the firewire PCI card will be correctly detected again and I can get on with Serato. I'm sure I just messed up the installation of the device/drivers somehow. I tried sfc /scannow, removing PCI card rebooting reinstalling, all things with safe mode and also regular normal startup.. on and on.. so format seems the only option. I'm getting used to it, but i'm not good enough at slipstreaming post-sp3 windows updates.. and it's a pain in the nuts to have to download and install around 200 windows updates every single time..

Ah ok, sounds like something has gone wrong during the disabling. Have you tried asking Texas Instruments for help getting it going? That might be easier then having to reinstall again ;)

Sorry for the very late reply.. I formatted to test firewire again, failed. Tried other PC with onboard via firewire, failed again, delayed write fails..eventually disk wouldn't load at all!! Tried support from my firewire enclosure company (Inxtron SK-3500 model), but still no answer!! As for the TI firewire card, it was totally no name brand from China that has no manual and the 'driver' disc autorun program has a button for 'install driver' but the autorun.inf tells the program to look for the 'drivers' folder which doesnt exist lol. So no support from them. The computer I found on the road is HP so I might try their support or perhaps VIA since its their firewire port.. but for now, I've given up on firewire until I get a Mac or something.

But I hadn't given after the disk had totally failed (which was stupid but i've learnt now).. I tried firewire 400 connection on VIA chipset onboard port and AGAIN same delayed write fails, and AGAIN total disk failure.. AGAIN I had to fix by disk error check by connecting the drive internally to my SATA system.. this time however I decided that Windows just can't hack firewire.

I'll look into again further in another year when I don't have so much on my plate.. last days for my mum. But having failed at firewire I rushed out that morning to get the right USB 2.0 cable for my external, it runs perfectly on the USB ports. I have so far not done a proper test of RATT or stress test for my old computer.. so I am thinking perhaps it might not run at all after all this lol. But maybe the new USB PCI card will make the difference, the RATT does look a lot better and I hope that it will play without dropouts. So I still have to test that.

HOWEVER I HAVE tried it on the computer I found on the side of the road. With only 512MB ram it does stuff up a little sometimes.. I had a weird hang trying to type something in the search box.. and when I connect the SL1, it loads up the decks like it recognises it, but it won't show the scopes unless I reconnect one or two times the cable.

BUT after this it has run perfectly!!! My laptop crashed after 2 hours recording, but I ended up doing a 7 hour mix (not to mention practice/warmup before hand also) with 5 hours being recorded, with NOT A SINGLE USB DROPOUT!!!

It has been a LONG time coming but FINALLY I can leave this tech support crusade behind and get on with the creative act of mixing!!

I will finish this thread by posting RATT for my old PC once I get a chance to test it, then also my girlfriend's laptop I've been meaning to RATT test for so long (the currect laptop I use for shows, until can afford my own).

Thank you for all your help, hopefully the PCI card still fixes my old computer and I can again go back to slapping my face for upgrading EVERYTHING else I could before that.. but still, I think the new external hdd, case and PCI card might be enough to get it running.

Mix ended up being 184 tunes.. tracklist & download here:

toxemiarecords.50.forumer.com

BIG smiles :)

Hey ninjagaijin,

Wow, sounds like a bit of nightmare you've had there! But sounds like some progress has been made :)

So which computer did you end up recording the mix on?

The one I found on the side of the road, an HP 3.0ghz ht with 512mb RAM, 20GB 7200rpm P-ATA WD hdd as system disc, using the external enclosure connected to USB 2.0 port. :)

Ah ok, well that was a pretty good find then :)

Shall we close this thread for now then? You can post back to reopen it if you have these problems again.

Would still like to test my laptop and original desktop - just had my mothers funeral to arrange last week so been VERY busy. Just received a bereavement payment so will be able to afford my own laptop now..

You were saying Macs are great - I heard some of the Macs now don't come with firewire 400/800 ports tho and also some particular models have issues with Serato - would there be any official recommendation for laptops for use with Serato? Was thinking would try a Mac as a dedicated machine just for Serato live performance and maybe some production.. any particular models etc? Otherwise, do you recommend a particular laptop manufacturer for low latency etc?

I'm thinking it will be hard to find a supplier/store that will let me muck around installing DPC tools on their Win 7 demo machines.. also a pity that there is no RATT tool for Win 7.. is there any equivalent for this for Win 7? Other than 3rd party DPC tool? This one is not as good as the Micro$haft one.

After dropping so much on my setup so far already, I don't want to rush a single thing in this - I need a good laptop that will perform for me with no issues.. assuming that 2nd hand laptops would not be good for this?? Was hoping to spend around $700-1000 AUD

I was also considering getting some Ortofon serato stylii, since I seem to have better tracking results from my ortofon pink concorde than my technics headshell, I'm assuming the Ortofon Serato stylii would be pretty tasty for Serato.. probably not the best for playing regular music vinyl though I would imagine..

Got my laptop, runs perfectly, will finalise this however with RATT's from my girlfriends laptop (in case I ever need to use again) and my old desktop in the next couple of weeks.

I hope after the USB upgrade it runs - otherwise I spent a year learning how to spend money upgrading my wheezing aging computer, probably needlessly. It DOES run nicer tho :) and it's my main workhorse.

Anyway now I can actually use my laptop I will muck around and have fun playing for a bit, before finalising this thread and clicking that wonderful button, FIXED! :)

Been super hectic past few months dealing with my mothers estate but will be running this test very soon, with 1.92 :)

I'm sure it has been, I hope everything's been running well for you in the meantime :)

Darn I pulled the power supply out of this box to use in my newer machine after upgrading some compnents (only had 512mb ram, bleargh!!).. so will unfortunately be unable to do a test of RATT and playing with this Athlon machine. Perhaps one day if I get it running again just as a recording machine (need to get another psu for it with old style AGP mobo connector) I will be able to see if it works at all and will update this thread for anyone trying to run Serato on an older PC. I think in the end it would have run, after 1 year of upgrades, it seemed to fix it in the 10-20 minutes I had a quick test, just from getting a PCI usb card to use instead of my crap onboard USB.

I didn't know my onboard USB was crap, so instead I spent SO much upgrading every other part of the machine and peripherals. I think for anyone that is broke and has this sort of older computer and considering serato, to definitely invest in nice PCI cards for firewire 800 & USB 2, so you can run your external hdds without using USB processing, and in case your mobo USB is to blame for dropouts.

Because I could have had a FAR easier time for that year if I bothered to just try changing the USB ports first.. rather than everything else!!

I hope to one day be able to test this for posterity, but until then, I am REALLY glad I managed to find my 'newer' computer on the side of the road. Now with a $90 graphics card in it, I can play new games on lower settings too, which is something I haven't be able to do in a LONG time - so it's all good :) also being able to afford a laptop so I dont have to borrow & configure my girlfriends for shows was a good thing too - she was always worried someone would spill something on it.. and somehow since we've both used it, the plastic casing where the speakers are just above the keyboard, have moulded into a slightly wavey shape, when it started straight .. lol.. I keeptrying to tell her it's probably from the heat from running it without a pad directly on her legs in bed.. but I hope its not me hehe :) my main argument is just that it's a Dell, which doesn't make her happy. haha :)

I will focus on my current issues with Serato now - I just opened another thread since I got an SL3 and it won't play the aux thru mode..

Nice work on getting your setup(s) going. It's taken a while to get there but I'm happy you've been able to close this off :)