sound drop

[Aidan]

Hi Roy Sorry haven't being back to you sooner ,
i connected by usb a gigaport ag in to my sony laptop and there was no problem of sound drops , but i cant use the background music or even use instabuttons on the mtu program , with my old l ACER laptop windows xp i had a echo indigo digital card and everything worked and ive had it 9 years but it was getting slow so i got a new sony laptop with windows 8 two months ago and all ive had is problems ,
was thinking of buying a secondhand dell with windows 7 and maybe the problems may stop

would be great full for any help
thnaks
aidan