spinning beach ball when doing almost anything...

[Muzoid]

I don't know when this started. PT7 Dual 2G G5, HD2 Accel.

Almost every time I place a plug-in on a track or do a complicated Beat Detective or Strip Silence, I get the beach ball for (somewhere around) 10 seconds - what a pain.

Any thoughts? I think I've checked all the usual stuff (trashed prefs, digi databases).

[Danny Caccavo]

Check your Energy Saver settings - drill down and make sure the processor is set to "highest" and not the default "automatic."

Just a guess.

Danny Caccavo
Digidesign

[Muzoid]

Danny,

checked - NO, that's not it. This is a new HD2 Accel - wondering if maybe it''s a bad card. Started running digitest but it was taking forever and I have mixes to crank out - about to head out for a few hours so I'll run it again and see what comes up. This system seems to be particularly slow. I thought that maybe it was the ADC slowing it down, but that's not it - does it all the time.

I'd really appreciate some helping getting to the bottom of this. Any other things to check? (I did all the troubleshooting routines)

[AINSLIE]

hey - Sorry about your troubles. Its something we all fear and I have had on occasion. Things to try:

Use 'Spotfree' (application) and remove spotlight functions from Tiger.
Lower the number of drives simultaneously connected.
Quit all background apps.
Kill all widgets.
Look at your Activity Monitor and see if you can see something chewing your processors.
Look at Task manager in PT - opening older sessions sometimes causes fade files to resync. That takes forever. Better to delete fades foler and recreate.
Get more RAM!!

Hope that helps, Ainslie

[Muzoid]

all "digital loopback tests" on the Core card failed!

Is that it? What does that mean exactly?

Thanks,

Bill