are you recording to USB drives? USB drives are not supported, that can cause your clicking problem. another internal 7200RPM drive or an external 7200RPM drive hooked up via Firewire or preferably (for external) E-SATA is needed.
Your ram is mismatched. The timing are different and can cause many problems. But even if the ram is not a problem, by installing ram with a lower timing (5300) your other ram (6400) has to be down clocked by the Bios, so at minimum you are not getting the performance you should be getting.
You have an AMD Dual core. You will need to install the AMD dual core optimizer.
You are on XP SP2, you should update to SP3.
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IMPORTANT! You MUST use a secondary hard drive (not your main OS drive) for recording and playback of audio in Pro Tools.
Recording or playback from the OS (Operating System) drive is known to be problematic and the cause of many different error types. If you are using your system drive and encountering errors, the first thing you should do is get a compatible drive.
USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic, so please do not use them with Pro Tools.
If you're recording or playing back from a USB drive and are getting errors in Pro Tools, please switch to using a compatible external firewire or E-SATA drive or internal SATA/ATA/IDE drive and disconnect the USB drive.
Pro Tools supports recording and playback to a secondary drive that meets the following requirements:
7200 rpm or faster
Firewire drives must have the Oxford 911 (FW400 port), Oxford 912 (FW400 & FW800 ports) or Oxford 924 (FW800 ports) Bridge chip. USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic.
E-Sata drives have NOT been tested but have "No Known Issues"
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I use E-Sata drives with no problems, and prefer them over Firewire personally.
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AMD Desktop Processors
The AMD processors listed below were used by Beta Sites during Pro Tools 8.0 development. They were not tested by Digidesign Engineering but are considered compatible with Pro Tools LE 8.0 for Windows:
AMD Athlon™ 64
AMD Athlon™ 64 FX
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core
AMD Opteron™
Notes:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core requires the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer
Pro Tools 8 uses certain SSE instructions for drawing and other performance critical code. We have found that some older models of AMD chips from the Athlon 64 X2 (Athlon X2, AMD K9) family do not support specific SSE instructions used by Pro Tools, even though they claim to be SSE compliant. On these AMD computers, Pro Tools 8 will not launch. Unfortunately, this issue is not something we think can be fixed on our end, given the amount of custom recoding and testing that would be required. Current AMD chips and those manufactured in the last few years do support these SSE instructions.
Although not tested, there have been reports of incompatibility from some users with Pro Tools and motherboards with the NVIDIA nForce 405, nForce 410, and nForce 430 graphics chipsets:
NVIDEA Motherboard GPU Technical Specifications
Not Compatible:
AMD Sempron processors
AMD K7, K6, K6-2, or K6-III processors
Motherboards containing SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) chipsets
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