New Acer Aspire laptop.

[dave.king1]

USB 3 can cause some really random issues caused by proximity to other devices.

I had to physically move my USB 3 connected external drive away from the USB receiver for my rodent because it froze in awe of later technology.

Given that your kit works fine on the desktop ( did the red Focusrite USB cable work properly there ? ) don't go throwing good money after bad until you locate the issue.

May well be a grounding issue but the increased read/write speed could be causing buffer issues so it could be as simple as a parameter change in the DAW or the ASIO settings.

[DrNomis_44]

USB 3 can cause some really random issues caused by proximity to other devices.

I had to physically move my USB 3 connected external drive away from the USB receiver for my rodent because it froze in awe of later technology.

Given that your kit works fine on the desktop ( did the red Focusrite USB cable work properly there ? ) don't go throwing good money after bad until you locate the issue.

May well be a grounding issue but the increased read/write speed could be causing buffer issues so it could be as simple as a parameter change in the DAW or the ASIO settings.

I've tried every combination of sample-rate and buffer setting I could in my Daw software (FL Studio) and none fixed the issue, tried every usb lead in every available usb port (I used my Energizer usb 3.1 hub to be able to plug into the usb 3.1 port) on my laptop, none made any difference either, tried installing the very latest Scarlett 2i2 driver that was available for download on Focusrite's website, still didn't fix the problem, tried going into Device Manager and setting the power management for all the usb controllers to always-on, still didn't fix the problem, I've tried running a little app called DPC (Deferred Procedure Call) Latency Checker on my laptop, it reported that my laptop should be able to stream audio without any dropouts.

I'm really stumped by this one.....hmmmmm....