My post also was lost. It was mainly about the same topic. My new laptop(HP DV4 -2160US) is working much better thanks to Timmur's recommendation of turning off "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery" in Device manager. If I boot up the computer, open my DAW (Samplitude) software and start recording, I will end up getting a"lost asio buffer" due to a hard page fault (svchost.exe). If I boot up and let everything sit for 5 minutes, then record everything is fine. I can record 16 trks @44k for 2 hours. The Cpu and disk usage (external esata drive) in Samplitude reads 0 - 1%.
     I have a UFX on order and wonder if the USB connection is the way to go? Will the Hard Page faults also effect the bandwith of the USB bus?

     My Home computer also is running crappy under windows 7. I used to be able to record 16 trks @96k with no problem with XP. I can't record 8 trks @96k with the highest buffer settings on win 7.
Samplitude 11 was written for win 7 and doesn't work correctly with XP.
     
                                                                          Thanks,
                                                                                       Allen