Tascam Computer Hardware - Manuals

6 Before you begin the install, it’s a good idea to download all necessary drivers for your PC hardware from the Internet. Pay particular attention to drivers for your graphics adapter, and any audio and MIDI interfaces. As well, make sure your printer, CD burner and any other peripherals are covere...

7 Booting from CD You will need to tell your computer to boot from the Windows CD-ROM instead of your (presumably blank and formatted) hard drive. To do so, you must access your computer’s BIOS (usually hitting DELETE key during boot up will access the BIOS; some computers use F8 or another key, so ...

9 Dual Boot The compatibility with legacy (older) software in Windows 2000 and XP is considerably more restricted compared with Windows 9x; this is intentionally designed to insure stability against any kind of application failure. If an incompatible program is run, Windows 2000 or XP will stop it a...

11 System Performance Tweaks – Stuff to Do After Installing Windows Messenger One of the ‘features’ of XP is the deeper integration of Windows Messenger. While Messenger may be useful for on-line communication, it’s a real resource hog; we recommend disabling it for audio use. To do this, right-clic...

20 Disk I/O Performance Logging Windows defaults to continual logging of Input and Output data to your hard drive. Disabling this will free up some resources. To disable performance logging, go to the Start menu and select Run. Type in “diskperf –n” (minus the quotes) and hit Okay. Write Behind Cach...