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2nd card causes crackles

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:36 am
by cm sounddesign
Hi all,
I have a Pulsar2 Card for a long time and it worked fine until I bought an old Pulsar Card and connected it to the other.
Since than I got clicks and crackles especially when my graphic card does a job like opening a new window or when I got a large zoom in Cubase and I play the song I got a click whenever the songpointer moves forward and the window changes. It's quite noisy(Clicks and crackles) when I work on the Scope Surface and open a device or even just move a little window.

I got a ASUS P4P800 deluxe Motherboard and Win XP pro. working with cubase 4 and Scope 4.0
My music PC is no Internet PC no office just MUSIC.
I did all the standart tweaks already.
For me it sounds like some sync problems between the two cards or sync problems in general but as I said: it worked fine with one card and I changed nothing when I plugged in the second Card.

Can anybody help me?
That would be really great!

Thanx.

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:54 am
by Neutron
Is the graphics card PCIe?

You can try turning the performance slider down in desktop properties>settings>advanced>troubleshooting

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:12 am
by cm sounddesign
Hi,
no PCIe.
AGP!

I toggeled the slider down but it changed nothing...
:cry:
thanx for the tip anyway :wink:

In Cubase I recognized that the ASIO PeakMeter is flickering really fast and makes high jumps on and on.

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:31 am
by Fluxpod
You could try another pci slot for the second card. :)

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:53 am
by Neutron
is it a radeon. they have something you can turn off in the control panel (their own) i forget what it was called. if its a matrox you can turn off bus mastering.

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:05 am
by luigicampala
Make sure that none of your pulsars is sharing an irq with the agp-card. try reseating the cards.
good luck :)

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:05 pm
by garyb
sound like an irq shared with one of the scope cards. have you checked for that?

Thanks to all

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:07 am
by cm sounddesign
Hi,

Ok, I have IRQ Sharing with the second Card I put in on my USB2 Controller...
What can I do?

What means try resetting the cards?


thanks again...

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:12 pm
by luigicampala
i was thinking abour reseating not resetting the cards. imean : put them into other slots. maybe you'll find some that not shared by any other necessary device

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:42 pm
by garyb
just disable the shared usb controller in the device manager. the controller in quesion has a name like 2YE7 or E1H5 or similar. make sure you disable the correct one. problem solved, all or most of your usb ports will still function.