got an interesting problem that i've noticed in the last week....but, first some background.... had been running my nodes (3, plus a hub) on a castoff dell laptop since last year...while not the best, it worked until the poor disk started giving up the ghost....but it worked well (a testament to a good os and application. anyway...built up a system, 64 bit althon dual core, on-board USB, couple gigs of memory, too much disk, to replace it. oh, also running 5.7 centos. now, while the audio on the laptop was fine, what i'm hearing on the new system is on an irregular basis, that any audio either repeated or originated on the machine itself (such as id, or weather playback, fer instance), a momentary, split-second 'cut out' or silent 'blip' in the transmission. now, i'm running the 64 bit version of the OS, built the latest svn on that system, all the levels were set with a service monitor, the usb dongles are all in the right place, but, this has me bugged. thoughts? should i go down to the 32 bit os instead? buy plug-in usb cards and not use the onboards? give up and buy an Scom (just kidding...)? thoughts? -- Bryan Sent from my iPhone please forgive misspellings...