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Hello:

I have a Elektra, and I've bought a Pulsar I Plus. I have connected both with the S/TDM connector. Now I'm using the Luna enviroment ver 2.5, and I have installed Pulsar I with the luna 2.5 drivers. But there is a problem:
the sound stops suddenly and after a few seconds comes back. Looking the "Samplerate Settings" I can see then that the frequency of work disapears when the sound stops. Also, when I change the freq to 32 Khz appears the message error of a fail connection of the S/TDM bus. Changing the freq to 48 Khz, the enviroment is not capable to set this freq and the sound stops and starts every time.

I have Probed to install only Pulsar plus with the 3.0 ver. In this case I can't only use 44,1 Khz. If I install elektra with the pulsar 3.0 I have the same problems that in luna 2.5.

I want to mark that Elektra works perfectly alone.

My PC:

Motherboard: QDI kinetiz 7b (via chipset)
CPU: Athlon a 900 Mhz
Ram memory: 128 RAM
Hard Didk: 40 GB
Grafics card: NVIDIA Riva TNT 2 32 MB
Modem: Conexant Soft Modem

The order of the PCI cards (this is the sort order of pci cards from
nearby
cpu to far from cpu):

Pulsar
Elektra
Free Slot
Conexant modem

Greetings: Miguel Angel

I just a vague suggestion: have you tried removing the modem + driver? I now have one pc dedicated to creamware because I kept getting strange problems with all kinds of pci-hardware. Pulsar seems to be very pci-intensitive and I can imagine that some less-expensive-kind-of pci hardware (I had this with a modem and a network card) puts instable load or something on the bus.... I have no proof exactly that is the case, but this is what my circumstantional intuition says

Thx for your answer ,but I've try to install just the Pulsar Plus without modem or Elektra, and I have the same problem. I'm doubting if this is caused by the chipset via (kt-133).

I've mailed to the creamware support of Usa/Canada, but they don't know anything, and the tech support of Germany haven't answered me. I have called to the thc support of Spain, and the tolk me about a via chipset problem...
Why motherboard I must to choose?
Thx, I'll apreciate any idea

your system is a bit of a mess (sorry don't mean to offend), not really enough memory (256 is a much better MINIMUM amount), VIA chipset isn't ideal (but will work), and using Luna software now that you have a Pulsar is slightly backwards. Here is what I suggest:

1. Make sure your Creamware cards are sharing an IRQ *only* with themselves (and nothing else). Usually you can set IRQ either in the BIOS, or by looking in your Motherboard manual and checking which PCI slots share. You did great connection the boards by STDM. Check page 31 of your Kinetiz manual.
http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/driver/KinetiZ%207t.ZIP


2. I would download Pulsar V3.0, and the V3.01, V3.01b updates. Make a backup of all your projects or finish them first, and of the Luna2.5 devices directory & any .pro files you're using. And then remove the Luna drivers & software completely.

3. I would then install the Pulsar V3 drivers for both boards. Reboot. Then install Pulsar V3 followed by V3.01 & V3.01b updates. Reboot.

Now you're running Pulsar V3 - much better. Try the <a href=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... +patch>PCI Latency Patch by George Breeze</a> to get a little more performance from your VIA chipset.

Later, after you work out the issue, add another stick of 256megs, and you should be doing pretty well. Let us know if you run into problems while attempting any advice in this post or if you have questions.

One simple thing after you get the Creamware cards sharing an IRQ *ONLY* with themselves (and nothing else):

Make sure the STDM cable is clean and the connectors on the cards are clean. Make sure it's a firm connection on both ends of the cable.