I've just upgraded to Win7/64bit/12gigsRam/i7 3.40mhz BUT,Rice Krispies Disease plus more

I would start by looking at your drivers. My experience with M-Audio x64 bit drivers hasn't been good although I haven't used a Delta 66 for a while, for that reason.

However others do use them successfully so it may be that your motherboard doesn't have native PCI support as discussed in this thread which relates to the 10/10 but I guess will also apply to the 66 as well.

You built the machine yourself? There is a D drive where the audioproject originates?

  Thanks for the help guys.  I didn't build this one.  I stopped that a couple machines ago :) I got lazy in my older daze I guess.   Looks like I'll be investing in a new interface, sigh.

Thanks
Dan

Damn... this thread has finally convinced me I REALLY need to replace the old PCI interface. Stupid advancing technologies always sticking their hands in our wallets. ;-)

With the money I've sunk into my new rig so far I could have bought a crappy used car... but on the flipside of that pain I remind myself that some people spend this much on standard issue Les Paul's and it makes me feel a little better. I just want to buy food again. lol... This'll be the last month of major purchases for me though... I hope. ;-)

Beepster


With the money I've sunk into my new rig so far I could have bought a crappy used car... but on the flipside of that pain I remind myself that some people spend this much on standard issue Les Paul's and it makes me feel a little better. I just want to buy food again. lol... This'll be the last month of major purchases for me though... I hope. ;-)

Interesting concept a musician whom can afford his own food.
 
I feel your pain had to ditch a perfectly good sound card because they dumped the 5v rail on the MoB.

@Wookiee... heh, yeah. I'm not pretty enough anymore to attract sugar mommas. ;-p

1. Check RAM use by right clicking on My Computers - Properties and seeing if it is using all 12 Gigs. 

2. Check CPU clock speed by doing the same above and seeing if the computer is using all the CPU capacity.

3. I have a feeling it is your harddrive that may cause the issue. A low RPM harddrive is more likely to cause Rice Krispies than RAM or CPU. 

4. M-Audio drivers suck. Get a mixing interface. They are always updated and are usually one-time investments (For a long time too).

One other thing to try for old PCI soundcards is to move it to a different slot if available.  Sometime what happens is the PCI and PCIe slots maybe sharing an IRQ which will cause the snap, crackle and pop.  Your motherboard manual should have a listing of which slots share IRQ assignments.  Hope this helps.

Cheers,

jayson

Hmm... I only have one other legacy PCI slot available on that board. I'm not even using any PCIe slots. Frankly I'm just sick of pulling my hair out over the Echo. As I've said it can go back to it's original home in the old XP system. It seems to like living there. Who am I deny it it's happiness?

A thought occurred to me. If the new MOBOs legacy PCI slots and modern OSs aren't cooperating well well the PCI cards of some of these older boxes I wonder if there could be a market for PCIe cards designed to take their place. Many of us paid a lot of money for this stuff and if the only thing wrong is the card... well, seems like someone could make some money here. Sounds like something Gigabyte might be into.

Yes, it seems to be the PCI slots on the newer MOBOs and perhaps more specifically the chipset that makes the slot do its thing. If I've understood correctly the manufacturers just kind of slapped in the legacy PCI slots (yes apparently they are considered legacy devices now) as an afterthought without really throwing much quality at them. It's kind of a piss off for me because I thought I had chosen the right board but I guess not. However someone just told me in another thread that Echo has been having success running their old stuff through PCI to PCIe adapters into PCIe slots on newer boards so perhaps that might be something you'd want to look into. Otherwise budget for a new interface as well. Cheers.

well I shouldnt have a problem if I just upgrade to Win 7 but keep my old motherboards.  hopefully

Yes, I'm finding this out myself. My new computer doesn't have any PCI slots so I sold off my 1010LT card and gave away my 24/96 soundcard and replaced them both with a M-Audio Fast Track USB interface and couldn't be happier. The Fast Track sits on my computer just waiting for me to plug in my guitar, mic or headphones. It also has volume controls for each, so it's very convient for me, and everything sounds great !! The Fast Track acts like a sound card and has ASIO drivers so it works very well for me with Sonar and my East West program as well.

My old Delta 44 PCI was my trusty workhorse for nearly 10 years but as soon as I upgraded past a windows xp / quadcore setup to a win 7 / i7 combo it proved no end of trouble - crackles, pops, crashes ... you name it! For about 6months I persevered trying every tweak I could get my hands on, beta drivers and so on to no avail (including many obscure ones involving BIOS changes suggested by the M-Audio forum).

I've since moved on to another PCI vendor (RME) and all is good again. Not sure if it was the Avid take-over of M-Audio or some obscure problem with modern implementations of the PCI bus, or indeed something else entirely but my days of frustration with the Delta 44 will not be forgotten. Shame really because I had nothing but good things to say about my Delta until the hardware upgrade.

Don't torture yourself like I did, try a modern PCI card if you can and just get on with the music making.

G'luck!