Pulsar 2 and Emu 1820M

grahams · Post by **grahams** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:55 pm

Hi,

This is probably a long shot but I am trying to get Pulsar 2 with scope 4.5 to work in the same system as an Emu 1820m emulator x, the problem is the pci limit has been reached message keeps coming up when I use more than 2 masterverb pro reverbs. If I take out the Emu card then it goes away, it looks like both of the cards need a lot of pci bandwidth.
My setup is as follows

Asus A8V deluxe motherboard
ATi Radeon 9800XT agp video card
2 gig of ram
Emu 1820m
Pulsar 2 (this is an old second hand one upgraded to scope 4.5)
Athlon 4200 X2 dual core cpu

Any one have a simular system with any ideas, I dont really want to get rid of the emu as I use the inputs also the Emulator X software.

Thanks for looking,

Graham

Post by **garyb** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:29 pm

amd x2 with via chipset is most likely the problem. sorry...

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:27 pm

i'm running a system with pulsar+luna + emulator x without problems, but i'm using gigabyte k8ns pro (nforce3 chipset).

CarvinGuitarFreak · Post by **CarvinGuitarFreak** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:41 pm

Hi,
I just got a 1616m and a PCMCIA adaptor of a client as part payment. I read this on the EMU forum. I dont know if this is what you are looking for? Works well. Ive got two P2s. I havent done much testing, but worth a try ????

http://www.productionforums.com/viewtop ... are&t=6371

later
CFG

synthetic · Post by **synthetic** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:09 am

Yepp, me too. I'm running Pulsar-II and SRB (15DSP) together with my EMU-1820 with no problems. I'm using Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, P4 3.0Ghz and 2Gb RAM.

grahams · Post by **grahams** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:34 am

I bought a k8ns of ebay, its just the basic one and not the pro, I have reinstalled windows but when I run Emulator x2 it blue screens with ks.sys error, if I disable the pulsar 2 then it works fine. I have reinstalled twice but still the same results. Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,

Graham

ali · Post by **ali** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:21 am

first thing to check is the IRQ allocation and possible conflicts

what card is on what IRQ and which device share its resources with other devices.

grahams · Post by **grahams** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:35 am

I have reinstalled this time taking out the raid drives and just having two individual drives and it works ok now, must be the raid driver, has anyone got theres working with nforce3 raid, if so what verion of the diver are you using.

thanks

Graham

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:13 am

RAID makes no sense with a DAW, you've experienced the tradeoff...

it is not 'safer' (mirror mode) because 95% of all 'errors' are user based

and 'striping' isn't required either, as regular disks are fast enough.
A dedicated disk for samples will have more impact.

cheers, Tom