µs): 1591.207216 Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: ndis.sys - Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), Microsoft Corporation


Network drivers can be disabled.

If you are using a laptop, disable your wireless card in device manager. You can also try disabling a regular network interface card, but wired connections are less commonly problematic because they use less power.

I usually also disable the battery charger. Or try just taking the battery out, booting and running latency Mon again.

There is a drivers tab in latency Mon that shows the problematic drivers. Sort the list descending and list the top ten or so for us and we will help identify what they are. If they can be disabled or there are newer drivers, we might be able to get you working on this computer.

HighAndDry
thanks  onboard video is a problem  hmmm

 
Not with a modern build...  
HD4600 GPU is fine for straight audio work.
If you're doing video editing, you'll want a dedicated (higher-end) video card.

The problem is the motherboard.
Swap that out... and the OP's problems are gone.

Jim Roseberry
The problem is the motherboard.
Swap that out... and the OP's problems are gone.

Sorry I don't see how you can jump to that conclusion at all for audio work on the basis of this thread. You certainly would not expect to see the audio engine stopping even on a fairly minimum configuration. In a lot of cases you just reinstall windows clean from scratch if it's a big issue.

I've configured many machines straight from the factory and most of them just need tweaking before they can work efficiently. Most of the time it's all the junk that has been pre-installed. Often you need to update the drivers, bios and firmware as well.

Cheers..

I'm not going to argue with you.
I've personally built hundreds of PCs specific for audio/video.
Swap out the motherboard... and the DPC Latency issue will be gone.

I apologize, as I have just gotten a moment to sit down and read through the LatencyMon data.
"Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation" is one of the called functions I mentioned and that is the autodetect feature of wi-fi, to disable that one, see my post here. That is the #1 latency offender, and is simply the "autodetect" feature enabled, that is not hardware-related.
 
You probably also have core parking enabled. Here is a link for the quickest way to disable (registry edit), and a video for checking/disabling can be found here.
 
A general post I made when I rebuilt my machine (which includes the above) can be found here. I was going to make up a detailed "tweak list" of what I did when I rebuilt this machine, but that was the closest I came to it.
 
 

Pretty sure the OP is knowledgeable about WiFi and its potential effect on DPC Latency.
 
I certainly would disable CPU Core Parking... but that wouldn't have a significant impact on DPC Latency.

Thanks to everyone who has t4ried to help!! I really appreciate all the input.  I am probably going to return the motherboard and get one that is know to be better suited for audio.  I don't know why I even chose this one!!

ya.  I'm a dumb ass sometimes

ok frequently