K7S5A + Pulsar I -> Cubase SX2.x USB Dongle not found

Eurocide · Post by **Eurocide** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:34 pm

Hi,
It's been a long time since I posted here something.
Now, after 1 1/2 year of happy music making with the configuration below, a serious problem occured.
The dongle of Cubase SX 2 isn't recognized anymore when the Pulsar I+SRB cards are installed.
The dongle is not corrupted, 'cause I tested it with my other computer. Licence Control Center finds there everything needed.

I did a clean installation of Windows+Cubase without the Pulsar cards.
Cubase worked.
After putting the Creamware cards in and installing SFP 3.1c, the whole system becomes unstable.
Beside of not finding the dongle, I get dropouts whenever something happens in the system.
And now the weird part: EVERY device has its OWN IRQ without sharing, WinXP in Standard PC mode, no ACPI. Tried already different PCI slots.

Config:
ECS K7S5A, newest BIOS flashed
AMD Athlon XP 2400 (maximum for K7s5A)
Ati Rage 128
512 DDRam 266
Pulsar I + SRB
Fast IDE HD.
WinXP Prof. + SP 1
USB: Midex 8 (not connected) & Cubase SX2 Dongle

Post by **garyb** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:46 pm

just an opinion...
since everything went well for over a year and THEN this problem surfaced out of thin air,i'd say that what has happened is that some file has been corrupted.if you knew just which file,you could replace it with the proper text.since you don't know,i would just start reinstalling(i must be famous for that ignorant solution,but it can't hurt and it often helps)over the old installs.i wouldn't unistall anything,i'd just run the latest update and be on with it.(try cubase first!)

this usually helps my machine when say,a bad shutdown or just randomness makes a normally properly running app act badly.

Eurocide · Post by **Eurocide** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 1:01 am

Complete re-installation already tried. Same errors. Also copied some older - working - disk images back.
Problems started with upgrading the CPU from a XP 1800 to a XP 2400.
But, if the CPU should be corrupted, nothing should be working, right?

Nevertheless, I've ordered a new mobo:
ASUS A7N8X deluxe 2.0
AMD Barton 3000+
1024 MB Twinbank RAM with 400 FSB

This should hit the next warp level...

Greetings,
EC-HQ

valis · Post by **valis** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 7:09 am

None of the multipliers on the bus changed?

Eurocide · Post by **Eurocide** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:15 pm

Yes, for a couple of days it was a solution to put the bus down to 100/133. The AMD 2400 was then a AMD 1800 (like before the upgrade

). Cubase found its dongle but dropouts appeared more and more often.
But why did it work with the full power for about 4 weeks?
Really strange...

Herr Voigt · Post by **Herr Voigt** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:26 pm

Oh, oh ...

You build me up ...
Today I changed my AMD 1,4 to an AMD 2000+.
Let's see what happens. (Schau mer mal.)

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 11:43 am

I hope you did plug a far powerful cooler on your cpu an mainboard otherwise you might damage cpu and pulsar cards by rising your fsb.

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Eurocide · Post by **Eurocide** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:34 am

Yes, I also guess that the cooler was a bit too small for the AMD 2400. This could also explain, why the performance was going down more and more over a period of several days.
The new ASUS board with the Barton 3000 and a large Arctic Cooler runs perfectly!