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Hello from Dave Martone dear people of the Planet Z boards

I have just updated to a newer computer and have installed my Pulsar 1 card with Sonar 8.

My old 2.4 1 gig computer running XP PRO had not to many issues with PCI overflow. Actually none.

Now my...
XP PRO
CPU: 3.0ghz E6850 core 2 duo cpu,
Video Card: Dual DVI Nvidia Quadro FX 1500 256mb ram
RAM: 4gb Ballistix DDR2 Ram,
HDD: 160gb SATA
HDD 1000gb SATA
DVD: Dvd Super X-Multi Burner with Lightscribe and a secondary DVD player (2 bays)
Card Reader: Built-in card reader supports 13 different formats.
Outputs: 9x USB 2.0 ports, e-sata, firewire, s-video
Audio: built in 5.1 HD audio card 6 outputs in the rear + 2 outputs in the front for headphones and mic (a total of 8 audio outputs and inputs) (disabled in bios)
Motherboard: ASUS P5K
PSU: 550w

has massive PCI overflow problems... Any settings or help or directions in past posts would be amazing help
Thanks Kindly

Dave Martone
www.davemartone.com

sorry to read, but the Pulsar 1 is very sensitive to this kind of problem.
Modern boards seem to neglect old PCI slot(s), (most likely) something is irq sharing with it
I remember boards where you couldn't even load the basic software without a PCI overflow.
Best bets were Intel 815 and 865 (P3/P4) back then, my recent 946 seems ok but with less PCI performance.
You should check the sharing, but an additional (faster IO) card with 3 or 6 DSPs is highly recommended.
Then the IO is handled by the faster card - it's an improvement anyway, less latency, too.

cheers, Tom

So I have been finding. I have been chatting with Garyb.
He is great.

I have been looking for a newer card... 3 or 6 dsp with the classic I/0 xlr... but cant seem to find one yet..

Thanks Astroman!

Gonna Check Irq and update to V4.5 upon Garyb.

Then go from there.

I will have more info in the next little bit.

Thanks guys