anyone ever get scope to work on ASUS A8V Deluxe, AMD64x2?

[astro planet]

Has anyone ever got Scope 4.0 to work on and ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard with and AMD64 dual processor?
I think the problem is that in the Scope support manual they suggest running at 33mhz, but the lowest setting for the cpu is 200mhz.
Everytime I run Scope it always crashes at some point usually getting a BSOD Machine-check-exception.
I've made sure no IRQ's are sharing, tried each card by itself, tried different ports, disabled onboard audio devices.

If anyone has had success with this kind of setup I would love your input.

[cortone]

astro planet,

I don't have experience with that board. The search function may help you find whether anyone here has tried it, or maybe search for a reference to the chipset that is on your board to see if anyone has tried a similar set up.

I'm not sure what edition of the manual you are looking at, but 33mHz more than likely refers to the PCI bus. It is definitely not the CPU core frequency. It might reference the Front Side Bus, but even that would be very old information, and there is no need to try and under-clock the FSB.

Cory

[astro planet]

It has a via chipset. After reading so much bad feedback about the chipset I have decided that must be the problem.

[yayajohn]

hey astro planet. I've got an ABIT AV8 with the same chipset, AMD64 X2 3600 2.4MHz running scope 4.0 with a 10yr old pulsar 1. Had been running 2 project cards with the pulsar 1 for about 4-5 yrs and it worked fine. When I bought my scope pro and computer upgrade in Jan 09 I had to bump out the pulsar 1 so now it runs by itself on the ABIT MB.
I had problems too installing scope 4.0 and went thru all the troubleshooting stuff we read about here on Z.
What I think did the trick though was I adjusted the AGP ratio in the bios, it was fixed at 66MHZ and I changed it to 8:2:1 and it has been working fine for the past 6+ months. This may or may not be why it started working as I obviously stumbled onto the correct bios settings. I know there's lots of guys here that could explain why. Not sure if you're using a 1st gen card but the 2nd gen cards did not have any problems with the default bios settings.
Hope this helps, PM me if you want.

Good luck

Dan

[astro planet]

Thanks for the info. Yayajohn
My bios does not have those options.
I ordered a new motherboard with an Nvidia nforce3 chipset,
should probably come in soon.
These cards are old. The 2 pulsar cards are dated in 98, and
the Scope card is dated in 2000. I got them from my father-in-law
who used to work for Creamware back around that time, but doesn't
any longer due to some unfortunate events. But he still praises the hardware
and says it was ahead of it's time.
I am looking forward to the possibilities it has to offer if I ever get it going.

Chris

[yayajohn]

Well just so you're warned, these things are addicting and there's lots of support here at Planet Z. I'd have to agree with your father-in-law, back in 99 when I bought my first Pulsar, I was getting ready to drop 3 large for an ADAT machine and just happened across an advertisement for the Pulsar card. I now call it my greatest purchase of all time and have reserved a special place on my wall for it when it finally quits.....who knows when that'll be......
I had the Pulsar on an NVidia NForce2 board before this one and it seemed to work fine but I'm not sure if I ever ran it by itself as I think I had it connected to another Pulsar 2. Maybe you know this already but if you connect a 2nd generation board to a 1st gen board via the STDM connectors, the 1st gen board will assimilate the 2nd gen board's ULLI settings.
Anyway, good luck with your new setup.

Dan