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Found a newer installer from a thread and learned a good piece of information. I had to install the inf updated with the /overall switch. This forced the new drivers onto the system. Now I have usb drivers 8.3.1.1011from 2008 installed and my controller drivers, etc are updated to 9.3.1.1013 from 2009. I'll have to see how my system performs now.

The current 2007 usb drivers are version 8.3.0.1011, doing a little bit of searching on Google shows there version 9.1.1.1004. So I'm hunting for that installer now.

I think, keyword THINK, I might have fixed the problem. Now I don't know if it's a combination or just the driver update that fixed it. I had a Seagate 500gb 5400 rpm drive installed as a secondary drive in my laptop for over a year now. I replaced it with a 750gb 7200rpm drive this evening after ghosting all the data over to it. Now, I booted up and yes I still had spikes shortly after my last post about the chipset, etc. So I jumped on the Intel website in search of newer drivers. It's telling me my chipset drives are the latest released 2009, which I don't fully believe. I updated my Intel 5100 drives about a week ago to a 2009 release because that's all I could find. The online inf identifier informed me there was a newer driver for my wireless adapter as of 07/2010. I installed that driver and checked with the dpc latency checker. I had no red spikes, nothing but green. Also, keep in mind I have my wireless disabled when using audio applications. <UPDATE> While typing this message I seen a couple yellow spikes, and then one red spike. However, it has really improved from previous because I would get them continuously with the wireless disabled. I think the laptop was running for almost 15 minutes straight without any spikes which has never happened before. I'm still in search to see if I can find updated chipset drivers because that could be the missing piece of the puzzle and solve the interrupts for good.

I found a utility that actually was able to identify the chipset properly. I have the Intel GM45 Express chipset on my motherboard. I'm looking for updated chipset drivers to see if I can update the usb controller drivers. The current drivers installed are from 2007.

What I meant to say is I still get high spikes when those devices are not connected. I was just stating which usb devices I use normally with this system. I can get the same spikes without those devices connected. So what I'm trying to troubleshoot is the source of the spikes being seen in windows without any external devices. I'm a beta tester for Native Instruments so I always get the newest drivers when available and I have been in contact directly regarding dpc issues. However the system has the issue when just sitting idle without any external usb devices connected. Also, with suspending the acpi.sys thread with Process Explorer, it stops the spikes with or without these same devices connected.

Hello Andre, I've been looking for newer chipset drivers, I've updated all my other drivers such as the network adapter, wireless, etc. I have updated the Intel Storage Matrix drivers which should contain chipset drivers as well correct? The main usb devices I use on my system are the following. Native Instruments Audio 8 DJ Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol X1 They both have the latest drivers installed, however the spike occur when they are connected or not regadless.

Thanks that worked, I was able to install it on my win7 test machine and copy the folder over to the problem laptop running XP. The viewer wouldn't run on XP, so I viewed the file using the win7 machine with your explanation. It appears the following are the highest. - usbport.sys - ntkrnlpa.exe - atapi.sys - sptd5789.sys - acpi.sys There is one in there for the dpc latency checker but I won't include that. The only reason I had this open during the trace is so I could run xperf when the spikes were high and capture the data. Here is a link to my file, http://www.sendspace.com/file/wt5cgg

Hello Magical Andre, I've been chasing a dpc issue since last year and revisited the issue about a week ago with them. They want to offer me a replacement but I want to do my homework because I did find a 'workaround' originally. I want to permanently fix the issue because the laptop I have right now has great features. Also, there is nothing 'wrong' with it except for this dpc issue. Just to give some history on the problem, the workaround I'm referring to is suspending the acpi.sys thread. If that thread is suspending using the process explorer or process hacker the dpc interruptions stop. However, I want to find the root of the problem and I stumbled across this forum while searching on Google for information. I read the explanation on the first page and the SDK link you provided is for Windows 7. Do you have a link for Windows XP?