ugh.

i installed cubase on the pIII, but it was full of errors and ultimately the licensing didn't work. i was going to have to reinstall anyways after that, so i'm going to wipe it and put a vanilla sp3 on it. i've worked it down to processor or program error - or the obscure possibility that it might still be ram.

it should install fine on a vanilla sp; there's an audigy in there, it should pick it up through asio. if i get the same results, it's absolutely the program.

but, for this machine, i'm not as convinced of this. if i get different results, i'm leaning towards it being an error coming out of doing 32-bit math on a 64-bit processor. that's ultimately a programming error, as it really shouldn't happen. but it's the only thing i can really make sense of. i'll be able to verify that through this process. but, it means i can't rule out the ram.

what i'll have to do to rule out the ram is to find a way to get it up on this thing - maybe try vmware. i fully expect no change on this laptop, but we'll see.

but before i go out of my way on that, i'll wait to see what happens on the pIII. if i get the same thing, it's just the program and there's nothing else to do...