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atomic that syntax looks fine. Grusic, I tried using the interrupt affinity filter for the Pulsar's driver (the filter only affects hardware, ie drivers) and found that the software (pulsar.exe) was no longer able to find the card for some reason. Tried using both cpu1 and 0 as the mask, but anytime the filter was enabled it wouldn't work.

If anyone has any insights i'd love to hear them...

DeFeX helped me on http://www.appliedvisual.com/xcpu.htm, a small program to set cpu affinity!

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: atomic on 2002-01-03 06:33 ]</font>

right on.


keep your brain clean.

Just wanted to do a summary of my testing:

1. Tyan Tiger MP with Dual 1800MPs works amazingly well - AFTER WE GOT THE REV 3 of the board. If you have a revision 1.01 or "rev1" board, then YOU WILL GET LOTS OF PCI OVERFLOW PROBLEMS. We have the Tyan Tiger Athlon MP board, rev 3 (1.03) which is the version of the BIOS that came installed and also printed in the manual. The main difference, is we can now get 11 masterverbs (single processor, WinME), and 5/6 masterVerbs WinXP, dual, ACPI(!). This is excellent - just as good as the single processor AMD761 solution.

2. Copy Protection errors - occur more frequently on Win2k. If you are using dual USE WINDOWS XP PRO. Don't even try on Win2k, you'll get more issues there. I also have experienced copy protection errors on a single processor P4 system running ACPI. It seems related to ACPI, not duals. Hopefully fixed in the next version - but not that big a deal if you close and rerun it should work.

3. PCI problems with duals - you do get less PCI performance with 2 processors, than with one, at least on the boards we have tested. However, with revision 3 of the Tyan Tiger board, PCI performance is acceptable.

i850 & i860 chipsets (10/11 masterVerbs) do have slightly less PCI performance than i845-D & i815 (13/14 masterVerbs). However, the PCI performance is still excellent and shouldn't pose any problems <i>if you have a good board revision without problems - Tyan Tiger Rev1 will give you PCI problems</i>.

Hope that helps anyone thinking of going dual!

PS - if you're thinking of Athlon MP, definitely go with Tyan Tiger MP rev3 over any MPX solution - you can use all the PCI slots here, but not on ie: ASUS A7M266D.

On 2001-11-24 13:32, subhuman wrote:
...Or want the 1GHz, 512meg ram limit of the Acorp i815 board... (Which is difficult to find in most places, as it was only a small production run.)

i got an Acorp 6A815EPD, although not for sale it was a real weird way to get it, but anyways. I had been looking for months for a dual PIII 1GHz mobo, and couldn't find it anywhere on the net. I found lots of tests and bookmarks, but no shop would sell it to me.
Finally I tried http://www.acorp.be, it existed! Mailed the guy, got confirmation, got in the car, 2 hours drive to his place, a musician's pc shop in a small farmers village in the other side of the country (belgium's not so big actually;))
This alternativo was my dealer. No bankcards, only cash. Back in the car, 1/2 hr drive. Got the cash, speeded back to my dealer, got the stuff.
Proud in the car driving back home. Immediately installed it. Like I was drivin' down Francorchamps!

miep miep atomic.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: atomic on 2002-01-20 00:46 ]</font>

For the sole purpose of giving CW more idea's of how the CPV Errors occur here, I'm going to reïnstall my 2nd P3. Let's hope it can remain on the deck for long time!

I'm calling out to all of you dual CPU users, to send your experiences to CW. Now is the time they can make it work for us!!

atomic that thing I burnt ( I'm gonna replace it now)

must be you're quite sure!

edit: I just saw my CPU2 @ 97°C, and then I broke Fan3. Excellent move. I think I'll take a break now.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: at0mic on 2002-05-03 01:15 ]</font>

I had this problem before but it went away. I can't remember what fixed it. What annoys me is the fact that this stupid registration module is a product of Creamware's paranoia about piracy. Maybe instead of devoting countless hours on a module that doesn't even work they should be more focused on creating happy customers.

That 'Happy Customers' thing would be nice, but their Copy Protection system is their gold. If it get's cracked (it was once), they will loose big $. No body wants to undermine CW's income, do we?

Not to mention the number of companies that rely on the copyprotection to work so they trust Creamware stuff enough to develop for it.

I think cracking groups gave up on hacking pulsar devices. There used to be some stuff around for v2.04, but apparently even that never properly worked. Something tells me they can stop being paranoid.

Actually I don't have a desire for any cracked Pulsar software with hundreds or thousands of modules including the modular synth. If you want more things to play with there always seems to be free 3rd party stuff every day. I don't even get around to using what I have. Right now I'm having fun with just the STS samplers anyway.

hi all i bought a second hand power pulsar from a bidding web site
and it came without software and without keys also no serial number i need help on what to do

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: almalek on 2003-02-23 18:39 ]</font>

I think I read somewhere that it is best to have all the CW cards on the same IRQ.

On 2003-02-23 18:35, almalek wrote:
hi all i bought a second hand power pulsar from a bidding web site
and it came without software and without keys also no serial number i need help on what to do

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: almalek on 2003-02-23 18:39 ]</font>

email cw.