What the heck????

Okay, So was planning on starting my new project today....well pt is not cooperating. I have never had this happen before and i just got done doing some audio editing work and this didnt happen while working on it. I load up a new session and my PCI meter is half way up. So i try to record to 3 tracks and i get the 9093 error??? Even at 1024 I am still getting this error. what the heck i happening? My machine is a a7v333 with 2500 xp athlon. I have 512 megs of ram and plenty of hard drives and hard drive space. Help??? Christian

Somehow this got bumped without anybody replying. Fortunately i fixed my problem. In the past week i installed the sb audio drivers from sb instead of the standard win xp audio drivers. This massively screwed up pt. I had assumed that we were all past the whole sb with pt issues. I never seemed to have any problems with pt and sb in the same system since pt 5.3. Once i uninstalled the sb drivers pt seemed to be back to normal, meaning regular pci load (basically nothing). I hope this helps somebody. I had already inserted the windows xp CD to reformat and reinstall but i said let me check one last time, and sure enough it was back to normal. Christian

Okay i was wrong and somehow now i am back where is started. Again half pci usage and i cannot record for much longer then 10 seconds. i have no idea whatsoever is causing this and any input would be greatly appreciated. Christain

Did a full Windows xp reinstall. PCI usage still up at 50%. What the crap is going on??? Christian

i have the same problem

Remove the soundblaster card and bootup then see if the problem is still there? Reinstall it in a different pci slot. Could be irq conflict or shared irq that is not being seen as a fault by xp. The sb drivers that winxp uses are from creative anyway so using the latest drivers shouldn't be a problem. Try using creatives auto update site, it reads your sbcard and selects the latest drivers and software for all your sblive programs. Also, remember to disengage your mobo's soundcard from the cmos and remove any mobo audio drivers after bootup, if your mobo has audio as well which it probably does.