Jack, I don't think that you have enough horse power with that computer especially with only 3gigs of ram. I would try one of the non SQ versions of BH and don't use stardust mode. Also, do you have a good usb cable? Cheap ones, especially longer than 6 feet can drop out the signal. I am not sure that you could even run HQ player with that computer. Both programs are cpu intensive and BH is also ram intensive.

I have 3 laptops. 2 have first and second gen I3's and BH runs fine with both that have 4 and 8 gigs of ram. My reference laptop is an I-7 with 16gb of ram. BH recommends an I-7 and 8gb ram or higher for best sound quality. I noticed a slight improvement in sound with the I-7 and 16gb, but both I3's sound great.