CakeAlexS
Ironically I'm stuck on old nvidia graphics drivers as the latest seem to freeze my system (apparently effects only my specific model).

 Depending on the age, they might not upgrade the drivers at all.  If your sanity runs out you can buy a card for $30.
 
 Speaking of random crackling when moving the mouse, I may go back to using PS/2 ports. They haven't ditched those yet. Just about everything is USB and since companies have ditched making PCI audio cards, I really don't like the idea of USB everything and a USB audio card.  

Anderton
To think that at one point all you needed to do was clean and demagnetize the heads...

and calibrate the machine..and then the next session used different tape so....  


Ya know...I look back and I actually think a tape machine was a lot more of a headache.  Maybe because my StudioCat rig just purrs along.

kitekrazy1

CakeAlexS
Ironically I'm stuck on old nvidia graphics drivers as the latest seem to freeze my system (apparently effects only my specific model).

 Depending on the age, they might not upgrade the drivers at all.  If your sanity runs out you can buy a card for $30.
 
 Speaking of random crackling when moving the mouse, I may go back to using PS/2 ports. They haven't ditched those yet. Just about everything is USB and since companies have ditched making PCI audio cards, I really don't like the idea of USB everything and a USB audio card.  

Actually they fixed an age old problem recently, and then promptly unfixed it. With graphics card drivers I don't really upgrade them until I need to (like for instance my timeline might be disappearing) . Anyway quite happy right now, I'll buy a new card when I buy a new PC.

If I didn't have this issue I would still make sure I'm on the latest and greatest version (with nvidia they release them every couple of months and I always check the changelogs to see if it is worth upgrading).

mixmkr

Anderton
To think that at one point all you needed to do was clean and demagnetize the heads...

and calibrate the machine..and then the next session used different tape so....  


Ya know...I look back and I actually think a tape machine was a lot more of a headache.  Maybe because my StudioCat rig just purrs along.

I was being facetious   Between window splices, head lapping, azimuth alignment, tape stretch, self-erasure, edge tracks, SMPTE sync, replacing pinch rollers, and alignment tapes that cost $100+, I was more than happy the last day I used a 24-track. The only thing that made my life easier with tape was the infamous TEAC SP-2 stainless steel polish. Very few people knew that using it on your heads extended their life dramatically.
 

Spools out for summer...

Those video card drivers they have not been making correct for maybe the last year and a half, especially Nvidia. AMD - don't really know about. But that is mainly for computer games.
 
http://www.guru3d.com/
 
download menu item there.
http://www.guru3d.com/files/index.html
 
video card drivers.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-categories/videocard-drivers.html
 
And you can read comments about the drivers, but usually it is about whether they work or not with computer games, especially Nvidia and Geforce cards lately.
 
But then I gave up on ATI drivers (AMD now) a long time ago. But maybe computer programmers just foam at the mouth and go crazy or something (okay, just a little humor - maybe not).
 

I used to have crazy high-end graphics cards (2) in my music computer.  I now just run off the on-board video.
 
Bob Bone
 

Don't know if this is the same sort of problem but I've been getting crackles and pops when dragging nodes around in the Quadcurve EQ. I'm sure I remember someone else reporting this ages ago but can't recall if or how it was resolved.

I was having those crackles and pops too, turns out it was my knees and back.  Getting old sucks.
 
Bob Bone
 

I find the AMD website download center way user unfriendly. 
 
The auto find tool has never worked for me, on dozens of machines. When it would run, it would find drivers that would not install.
 
And no clear way to search just the driver downloads for separate non-video drivers.
 
So, Craig, do you have a link to the ahci driver?