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Mon, 06 February 2006 14:46  |
Tom Bruhl
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Registered: June 2007
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e had
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>>>no problems with them. I think maybe 1 or 2 bad boards which believe me
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>>>is really low.
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>>>Chris
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>>>Neil wrote:
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>>>>It's a 600-watt power supply, so that shouldn't be a problem...
>>>>anyway, I finally got it to work... had to reload the USB
>>>>drivers this time, then reload the license control drivers.
>>>>
>>>>I'm almost tempted to just go get a new mobo since this has
>>>>been so flaky from the start, but now that it's working, I'll
>>>>give it a shot for awhile & see if it's decided to settle into
>>>>some level of stability... I hope so, becasue with this kind of
>>>>work, we all know that the only thing worse than "slow"
>>>>is "unstable".
>>>>
>>>>Neil
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>>>>Chris Ludwig <chrisl@adkproaudio.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Hi Neil,
>>>>>I haven't seen anyone but you so far using this model board so far but
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>>>>>assume you wanted to be a guinea pig for it..:)
>>>>>It sounds to me like you more than like have a flaky motherboard which
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>>>>>may be just that board you have or a piece of hardware that just doesn't
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>>>>>like that motherboard i.e., Ram, hard drives, video card. Do you have
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>>>>>least a 450 watt PS? Most all the new board need allot of juice. Are
you
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>>>>>using an ATI X series video card?
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>>>>>Chris
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>>>>>Neil wrote:
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>>>>>>Hey Chris...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>OK, check out this rant, and considering the timing of this
>>>>>>thread, it's pretty relevant:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I decided recently to upgrade my mobo & CPU, because I
>>>>>>purchased CubaseSX v3, and apparently that app is more CPU-
>>>>>>intensive than the v1.xx I was running (a couple of projects I
>>>>>>had going were pushing the limit already, but when I tried
>>>>>>running them in v3, they started to glitch & have playback
>>>>>>problems - you could see the CPU meter in the "VST Performance"
>>>>>>window, go up a little more than it had in v1.xx - apparently
>>>>>>just enough to cause problems). So I get a new mobo/CPU combo -
>>>>>>an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ sitting on a Gigabyte GA-K8U with a ULi
>>>>>>M1689 chipset.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I install the new stuff, and expect the usual - a few glitches,
>>>>>>a handful of reboots, and we're off & running, right? Nope.
>>>>>>This thing has been a nightmare from day one - lots of issues,
>>>>>>including getting stuck in a boot loop that took me half-dozen
>>>>>>attempts of having to boot into "safe" mode in order to undo,
>>>>>>and finally, getting stuck in another boot loop, at which point
>>>>>>I even brought it to a service tech - never had to do that
>>>>>>before... ended up having to wipe the hard drive clean,
>>>>>>reformat, and reinstall WinXP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>OK, so now it should be OK, right? I try to install the drivers
>>>>>>for my RME Multiface, and no luck, the PC is not recognizing it.
>>>>>>I e-mail Synthax (the folks that do RME support for the US),
>>>>>>and they tell me that it might be my card - which is an older
>>>>>>version and has been known on some systems to have problems -
>>>>>>but the good news is for $40 and a return of my card, I can get
>>>>>>a factory refurb which addresses these issues. So in the
>>>>>>meanwhile I decide to buy a new card, since I've been wanting
>>>>>>to go to 16 inputs anyway & I have two of the Multiface i/o
>>>>>>boxes.
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>>>>>>I get the new card, install it, load the drivers, and after
>>>>>>several hours of trying every combination of possible drivers,
>>>>>>flash updates to the firmware, clearing out extraneous entries
>>>>>&g
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