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Dear Pulsarians,
I changed my pc (my old P4C800 DeLuxe died; Scope worked very fine) and have began the problems: my system crashes many times casually with very simple project also and the audio makes crackles (at all latency!!!) on Cubase 3.1 but also with audio files playback; I had the same problems in the past: I reinstalled all the system and for he pc worked very well for a little. Now the same problem!!! If I exit from Scope, the system works very fine
My pc current pc consists: Intel E6600 on mo.bo Asus P5B-E, 4 giga Patriot Extreme DDR2, Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT, case Thermaltake Armor, sata2 disks Seagate 320+500+500 (programs, audio and libraries), Win Xp Pro Service Pack2, mother's driver updated.
1) First consideration: I had difficulties to install the Scope board (software 4.0) on pci slot (the downer): there is no space because the board touch the mo.bo condensers ... I tried many times and I mounted the board finally but not the in the optimal way: the board doesn't reached the slot bottom. Maybe it the problem?? I bought this mo.bo following the site's indication and I ask myself if the the other owners had same problem!!!!! Does it need a slot PCI riser card???
2) Second consideration: the Scope shares the last PCI slot with the ICH but I can't change the slot for poor space (the P5B-e has three PCI slots only!!!)
3) Third consideration: the Scope drives maybe no update for Xp???
Can anybody help me???

1) try the 3.1a/b driver, it seems to work better with dual core cpus (I suppose on the old mobo you disabled hyperthreading, did you?)
2) sharing irq is often problematic, you should avoid it, consider to change mobo

cheers
Fede

No, Fede, I worked with hypertrading on the Asus P4C800!!! And it worked very well!!
The Scope board doesn't fit very well in the P5B's slot (doesn't reache the bottom!!) so I'm going to buying a riser card.
I tried to change the irq assignement but I think no possiible in ACPI mode!!! I placed the Scope in the third slot but it shares the irq with the ICH8!!!!! I want to change the slot but I need a rise card ...
Must I change my mo.bo? I hope no!!!
Fede, what your board? Ralf bach said to buy the Asus P5K: whar do you think about???
Thank you!!!!

I have an "old" intel board (D945PVS) which performance is "acceptable"..
I've had similar problems that I solved using that driver and moving the cards by slot until I had one without irq shared, then I set that one to be the main one in cset.ini file.
I don't know about asus, once they were making very good mobos but recently it seems they're focusing on gamers features... I suppose they should work fine though, their expertise on the matter is huge, the worst one should should do a good job too.
I personally moved from asus to intel because of the number of pci slots, asus tends to mount few of them on high spec models while intel is more conservative on this, it is easier to find more pci slots on intel nowadays. I considered this in my choice because it is very important to find at least one slot that's not shared with anything.
There are also other manufacturers to consider like supermicro or abit (if it exists still), you can have a look here in the forum under the tech talk section to know about users experiences.

I don't know about riser cards, I suppose that if they're completely passive they should work fine, otherwise they might give problems. The problem of fitting the board is strange: the board should reach the bottom to function properly, but in the other case I'm expecting it shouldn't work at all, maybe there is some sort of false / dirt contact?

Fede

Fede wrote:I have an "old" intel board (D945PVS) which performance is "acceptable"..
I've had similar problems that I solved using that driver and moving the cards by slot until I had one without irq shared, then I set that one to be the main one in cset.ini file.
I don't know about asus, once they were making very good mobos but recently it seems they're focusing on gamers features... I suppose they should work fine though, their expertise on the matter is huge, the worst one should should do a good job too.
I personally moved from asus to intel because of the number of pci slots, asus tends to mount few of them on high spec models while intel is more conservative on this, it is easier to find more pci slots on intel nowadays. I considered this in my choice because it is very important to find at least one slot that's not shared with anything.
There are also other manufacturers to consider like supermicro or abit (if it exists still), you can have a look here in the forum under the tech talk section to know about users experiences.

I don't know about riser cards, I suppose that if they're completely passive they should work fine, otherwise they might give problems. The problem of fitting the board is strange: the board should reach the bottom to function properly, but in the other case I'm expecting it shouldn't work at all, maybe there is some sort of false / dirt contact?

Fede

Thaky you, Fede, for you reply!
I solved the problem: my Seagate has problem!!!! So I tried to record audio files in the other disk and NO PROBLEMS!!!!! It happened some time ago with an other Maxtor disk so I'll buy other brand only (maybe Western Digital or Samgung).
My conclusion are:
1) no problem with ACPI mode
2) no problem with DualCore CPU
3) no problem with shared IRQ
4) problem with Maxtor/Seagate disks (with most recent only)