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winger wrote:I tried hot plugging and starting with it on at boot time. Not obvious difference.

I tried something new. I pulled the harddrive, and installed a new one. Loaded xp pro, sp2. Then installed scope 5.0, then the latency tool. Still could not get more that 1 to run. So it is not something loaded on the machine, since this is the simplest config I could get. I tried setting scope to 128, 200 doesn't matter. It is clear that it is possible to get 10 or more masterverbs to work, it is not clear why it only happens once in a large number of reboots.

Will be gone for a couple days again and when I return I will have a different laptop to try.

I have stable 8 masterverb on Xp 32 bit, and 7 masterverb on win7 64 bit. Always the same. I have only one Pro card. I think you have more the one card. Try with only one of the cards, the one how have more dsp, maybe because of using more then one card there is a bandwith reserved for each pci device, or maybe since only uses one SFP app for both cards there is some type of conflict regarding pci bandwith preference of the diferent cards. Who knows.

Well, I cannot get it to work in the new computer(xp pro installed). It has both cardbus and pcmcia slots. When installing 5.0 it cannot find the hardware, when I install 4.5 it gives an error saying I must install them manually. I went to device manager, selected the unknown device under sound and video game controllers, tried to install the scope drivers from there and I get BSOD.


Device manager shows PCMCIA adaptors and under it a ti pcixx21 cardbus controller. Someone earlier suggested disabling the pcmcia for performance but with this configuration my guess is that this would not be possible.

The computer is an hp pavillion dv8000. This is a little older that the dv9000 I was working with.

I have a couple other lattops but they only have pcmcia. I suppose using a cardbus34 to cpmcia adaptor would be too slow to be worth while. Anyone know?

winger wrote:I have a couple other lattops but they only have pcmcia. I suppose using a cardbus34 to cpmcia adaptor would be too slow to be worth while. Anyone know?

Forget pcmcia adapter, I tried one of the most known (don´t remember now) and don´t work, because is not full 32 bit compatible, don´t waster time.
Disabling the pcmcia doesn´t affect expresscard. I always have both pcnmcia and expresscard, pcmcia disabled.
Expresscard is more a direct conection to the pci bus of the laptop, I found other people having problems with the expresscard affected by the Ricoh pcmcia chipset. If I enable the pcmcia on my laptop (with is terribly bad) I get the pci overflow message all the time.