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# Configure Power Saving Utilities. You should be able to set up the laptop to run off of wall power and not battery power, if possible. Audio streaming requires lots of hard drive spinning and tons of processing power. These all take lots of power. When you run off of the battery, you are simply not getting enough power to do get your machine to perform. Set your Power Options to Maximum Performance. Make sure that you never let the machine turn off your hard disks, too. Most laptops have a "4-Pin" 1394 or Firewire jack. These do not send power out to the external devices. So you will need to power your firewire devices with an external power supply. Only a "6 Pin" 1394 jack will send power to the device, but laptops aren't designed to power additional devices. They simply don't have the power to spare. So even if you have a 6-Pin jack, be sure to power your external firewire devices with their own power supplies. | # Configure Power Saving Utilities. You should be able to set up the laptop to run off of wall power and not battery power, if possible. Audio streaming requires lots of hard drive spinning and tons of processing power. These all take lots of power. When you run off of the battery, you are simply not getting enough power to do get your machine to perform. Set your Power Options to Maximum Performance. Make sure that you never let the machine turn off your hard disks, too. Most laptops have a "4-Pin" 1394 or Firewire jack. These do not send power out to the external devices. So you will need to power your firewire devices with an external power supply. Only a "6 Pin" 1394 jack will send power to the device, but laptops aren't designed to power additional devices. They simply don't have the power to spare. So even if you have a 6-Pin jack, be sure to power your external firewire devices with their own power supplies. | ||
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== Tips == | == Tips == | ||
