problems with pulsar sharing irq's

Kalinski · Post by **Kalinski** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:51 am

Hi

I am getting serious system crashes when using pulsar 3.01 within cubase 5.1r1. My system crashes to blue screen and the following message appears

An exception OD has occurred at 0028:c002b4ba in VxD NTKERN(01) + 0000a596
This was called from 0028:c007a66c in VxD (01) + 000001d0

i have just rebuilt my system after a nasty master boot record problem (moved my os onto a 4.5gb drive keeping my audio work on a IBM udma 66), completely flattened the drives to start again)

Steinberg feel that its a problem with windows 98 and others i have spoken to feel that it could be a problem with Pulsar sharing IRQ's. I have a free IRQ slot but don't know how to mannually move the card to it.

can anyone help?

cheers

K

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 3:47 am

Some more info would come in handy, e.g. motherboard, windows version, which card in which PCI slot etc. Don't forget to check the tips in these forums and on the infinite-vortex site on optimizing/stabilizing your windows setup. cheers,

Rob

Kalinski · Post by **Kalinski** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 7:04 am

sorry about the lack of info!!

just that i've seemingly have typed the following a number of times in a number of forums trying to get help!

System
Intel PIII 750
Creamware Pulsar II sound card (running software 3.01) which has been fully
tested within cubase (all audio system checks)
cubase 5.1r1 (registared with dongle)
256mb RAM
4.5Gb hard drive for the operating system (windows 98)
13Gb UDMA 66 IBM hard drive for audio
ATI 3D Rage Pro (atir3) graphics card

The motherboard is an Aopen AX6B it has 3 isa and 4 pci slots and the pulsar card is in slot 1 (slot 4 being the scsi card and the two inbetween are empty). It is next to the agp slot (but that is because as i understand it you need to keep your scsi card well away from your graphics card)

i get the feeling that it is the shared irq that is teh problem and i am still trying to find out how to manually move it!

many thanks for your help

K

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 7:13 am

In your motherboard BIOS you can asign which slots get which IRQ and also reserve those IRQs. Creamware cards can and should share an IRQ which each other but never with any other card.