Help on tweaking...

pitju · Post by **pitju** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 1:27 am

Hi, sorry again for my bad presentation on this forum. I need your help, and to give you in the best way possible the configuration of my system, I saved the data of Microsoft Sys Information in a TXT files. Please take a look here.
http://www.ginodedominicis.com/MySystem.txt
The bigger problem is that 'with DMA enable' the PCI master overflow error appear as soon as Cubase start....no Reverb, no effect, only ADAT source and destination.
PRobabily there is a big error on my config, so big that i cannot see it !!
Thanks in advance
Sorry for bad english
And sorry for bad posting
Bye

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 5:43 am

After a quick look, i say that you should remove SoundBuster 64V... Then try moving the SCSI card elsewere... Somewhere where it don't share with AGP.. The slot were SCSI is now, don't put nothing in there. The rest looks OK for me...

It's an Asus A7M266 mobo isn't it?

borg · Post by **borg** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 6:33 am

congratulations pitju, you certainly have everyones attention now

. we don't all live in the same place and time zone. so remember this for the future. some get immediate answers, some have to wait a day.

and stop saying your english is bad. as long as we all can understand, things will be ok.

anyway, you achieved what you wanted: you're in the center of planetZ

(funny, i'm just reading 'journey to the center of the earth' by jules verne). i hope things work out for you.

_________________
andy
maybe a bit lazy but willing to learn

[ This Message was edited by: borg on 2002-03-14 07:04 ]

pitju · Post by **pitju** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 6:35 am

Thanks, i began follow your istruction, and I will say the results.
No, the mobo is an ABIT KG7-lite.
Sorry for bad enflish
Bye

pitju · Post by **pitju** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 6:41 am

Yes Borg, the good feeling of all the members of this forum give me the possibility to have good hints......in others probabily I'll be banned....yes my English is poor.
Thanks again for consideration
Bye

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 8:37 am

A couple hints...

When troubleshooting, it is best to remove everything you can from the system, get it down to only the essentials, to find where the problem is. marcuspocus gave good advice to start by removing all PCI cards except your Pulsar, remove devices from any onboard RAID controllers (for now) and disable any onboard devices like onboard audio, RAID, USB. For now - you might eventually reenable them after you find out the source of the issue.

Next I notice you only have 88% resources free - not a problem in itself, but usually means there are a bunch of background programs running. Use msconfig (start run type msconfig hit enter, find the startup tab), to remove most (all except Pulsar?) of your startup programs.

Finally make sure you have the AMD AGP driver installed, and ONLY the VIA IDE driver installed (I would suggest that you do not download the 4-in-1 for the chipset but just the VIA IDE driver separately).

If you need clarification on any points in this message, ask, otherwise try this all and report what you find.

pitju · Post by **pitju** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:15 am

Thanks Subhuman, for now the problem persist, but i try to unistall all PCI card and other unuseful device, until i solve the prob; a question: is it importanto how I have connected my two HD ? I mean, i've got on primary IDE 1 HD (three partition, 2 for dualboot system and 1 for swap file) + cd-rom , and on the secondary 1 hd 60gb 1 partition.
Thanks in advance
bye

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:19 am

And besides physically removing the cards (just for now), you will want to remove all traces of the drivers from the Device Manager as well. Boot into Safe Mode (press F8 during startup repeatedly hehe), and remove 'ghost drivers' there, too.

pitju · Post by **pitju** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 9:29 am

And the winner is.....Subhuman! Finally i've understand, that sometimes the problem is so easy that is impossible to see ! I've unistalled all my cards, and with Pulsar and AGP card only.....the problem persist !!!! But....it should be the HD..... !!!

Before: PRimary IDE = 1 HD + CDROM
Secondary IDE = 1 HD (Waves data..)

After: PRimary IDE = 1 HD + 1 HD
Secondary IDE = CDROM

...and the problem is solved !!!!! No more PCI master overflow with DMA enabled !
That's all
I had to uninstall all two months ago, but my big 'Knowledge' contrast with this little problem (I'm kidding.....i'm so stupid ç#??!!)
Bye and thankyou again

[ This Message was edited by: pitju on 2002-03-17 03:24 ]

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 1:09 pm

Nice it's working now, but could anyone with a deeper knowledge explain why an inactive CDRom as slave on channel 1 can have this influence ? His CRD-8521B as a 52x unit isn't such old fashioned.
I'd expect HD drives on different channels work better, as copy is much faster.

There's always something to learn on this forum

[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2002-03-16 13:12 ]

pitju · Post by **pitju** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 3:22 am

Yes, consider that it's a solution; It's true that 2 hd into two different controller work better, but prob on my configuration, for my MOBO, or for my bad installation of drivers, my system can't handle 2 hd on two ide controller without PCI problem. Also for me it's strange, but it works

Bye

[ This Message was edited by: pitju on 2002-03-17 03:24 ]