DJ Power and Laptop Users

[Glenn Miller]

I recently got a laptop, a Dell Inspiron 5100, I also purchased a Sound Blaster Extigy External Sound Card.

I installed DJ Power, by the second song "skipping" takes place, some times severe, (5-7 sec jump) sometimes limited (1 sec)

If I remove the sound blaster, I still get limited skipping the odd time with the internal sound Card.


Now for what I have done.


I installed PCDJ, no issues.

So I start removing unnecessary software. I found a link at another site on how to cut back on resources. ( I have the laptop with the SB using a total of 34 resources now)

And still the skip.....

What am I missing.....

[Professor Jam]

Glenn,

Is it an issue that is recurring? When you do the exact same thing every time you get the same result?

[Glenn Miller]

yes

[Musical Madness]

What are you using for an operating system?

As you say recent, I'm guessing XP?

[Glenn Miller]

yes.....

[Musical Madness]

My lookup showed the following specs of the dell...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Processor type Intel Pentium 4
Processor speed 2800 MHz
RAM installed 512 MB
Dimensions (WxDxH) 33.5 x 27.5 x 4.65 cm
System weight 3.69 kg
Travel weight (with AC adapter and external peripherals) 4.26 kg
Display size 15 in.
Graphics chipset ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Internal spinning media drives HDD; CD-RW/DVD combo drive
Hard disk capacity 40 GB
Hard disk rotation speed 5400 rpm
LAN connection Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller; Dell TrueMobile 1180 WLAN Mini-PCI card (802.11b)
Battery rating 6450 mAh
Standard warranty 1 year collect & return
Other features / comments integrated antenna supports both 802.11b and 802.11a connections
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Is this accurate?

I wouldn't think this to be a slouch!
Of course knowing from experience, software doesn't always load properly, and may require a re install. Windows XP, I have loaded several times on the same machine, and ended up with different configurations each time. Once my zip drive was C:\ and my Primary drive was D:\. That was fun!

[Glenn Miller]

Above accurate, except I got 60gig drive....

[Musical Madness]

Great!

Next questions are... how full is the main drive?

have you downloaded the latest drivers directly from the Creative for the extigy?

& did you install all the windows updates?

[Glenn Miller]

I am updating my mp3's currently 45gig on laptop, but will be eventually moved to an external.

All windows updates except DX current version 8.1

From another site I am reading DJ Power is having a major issue with Extigy sound cards.... they are supposedly working on the program.

I called Cindy yesterday, but was told I would be gotten back to...

[Musical Madness]

Sounds Like you've found your issue!

Be careful with filling the drive too full, as they begin to lose performance over %50 filled. Obviously if you were at 55G you'd have a problem.