[sdiy] Sound recording softs part II

[Scott Gravenhorst]

1816...  I think that's bad news.  I remember buying 3 cards at a
computer swap years ago.  Withing 6 months, all were DEAD.  I do remember
other herky jerky problems with them before they crapped the bed.  I
cannot remember the "brand name" of the cards, but I do remember the
chipset number.

I'd get a different sound card.  The system isn't all that slow, it
should work with a decent card, especially if you don't have other
programs running (I also do a fresh boot for these things).

harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net> wrote:
>Hello Obi Wan Kenobi(s)
>
>Thanks for the tips. So far I'm still a non starter.  I downloaded
>both Audacity and Emagic "LogicFun" (which does indeed look
>like fun).
>
>Audacity seems to look pretty good, but I can only reach 16kbit
>stereo before the stuttering sets in.  I have disabled everything in
>sight (all background progs, virus scan, etc...). I tried disabling
>Windows virtual memory (to no avail).
>
>I am able to use this machine to read and burn CDs so it seems its
>not TOO dog-slow. But no luck with this sound card (yet).
>
>The card shows up in win98 as an Analog Devices 1816 chipset.
>
>The hard drive is big, but has a bios emulation to allow the drive
>to be partitioned to larger than the standard Opti-viper bios allows.
>I figure not to try and update the bios... might as well throw the
>machine
>out because it'll get screwed up for sure (even if I knew how to do it).
>
>It has 96M of memory...
>
>Anyone have any more good ideas or tricks... I'd like to keep this dog
>going
>for a while... its good for everything else I run.  I might consider
>another soundcard,
>but most modern units require WAY more resources than I've got :^P
>
>thanks for not laughing out loud :^P
>
>H^) harry
>

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