It is rather involved to explain. You may want to call me while you are at your system. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: neville To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:22 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: I didn't have this problem in Sonar 4 I don't know anything about that can you please tell me more? What is DMA mode and PIO mode and how do I change modes. Thanks allot. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon Kent To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:46 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: I didn't have this problem in Sonar 4 You may need to make sure your audio drive is in dma mode as opposed to pio. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: neville To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:50 PM Subject: [ddots-l] I didn't have this problem in Sonar 4 Well I tried to do the lead vocal again today. unfortunately I'm having the same problem. My audio is skipping and when I try to record I get a dropout and a message saying that Sonar can't save my recording and that my disk may be full. I know my disk isn't full. As I said before, most of my projects are on an external hard drive and I just cleaned my audio folder on Friday. Before my audio was skipping on the down beet of every 2 bars or so, it's still doing that but now it's also skipping randomly and dropping out randomly as well. Does any one have any suggestions?