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Conflict between Pci video card and sound card.
I am in the process of ironing out the last issues of a new DAW camputer. It works fine with no PCI ards installed. It works fine with one PCI card installed. Things get really hairy with 2 PCI cards installed. My current setup is as follows:
Intel 945gnt mobo
PD 2.8 820
2GB DDR2 Ram
1 CD/dvd burner (Plextor)
1 PATA 40GB HD for OS and apps
2 SATA 200GB WD HDs in raid0 for audio recording
What I'm trying to add:
Nvidea Gforce 5200 PCI graphics card - dual VGA
RME Digi9652 ADAT Audio card
As I said, it is not a problem to have one card in the system individually. It stops working when they are both in there. When I say stops working, it can mean a variaty of things depending on which slot each card is in.
Some ways windows won't even boot. I freezes before it gets to that stage.
Sometimes windows will boot, but only one card will be functional, the other card does not show up in device manager or anything. Normally it is the RME that gets the short end of the stick.
With my previous sytem, they peacfully co-exsisted, but not now. I tried moving them from slot to slot to no avail. I don't know what to do. Is this an issue with the board? Id so, I'll just grab a dual VGA AGP card and that might do the trick. I need to get this system up and runng by May 24 10:00 pm(EST) at the latest and am at my wits end. Please help. I will respond to any and all inquries in the morning. I need some sleep.
BTW. Don't hesitate to go step by step. I am not overly advanced in computers. For instance I have never dealt with an IRQ issue and don't know how to go about it, or even to recognize if this is one. This is the first system I am bulding on my own, although I have upgrade quite a few.
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Intel 945gnt mobo
PD 2.8 820
2GB DDR2 Ram
1 CD/dvd burner (Plextor)
1 PATA 40GB HD for OS and apps
2 SATA 200GB WD HDs in raid0 for audio recording
What I'm trying to add:
Nvidea Gforce 5200 PCI graphics card - dual VGA
RME Digi9652 ADAT Audio card
As I said, it is not a problem to have one card in the system individually. It stops working when they are both in there. When I say stops working, it can mean a variaty of things depending on which slot each card is in.
Some ways windows won't even boot. I freezes before it gets to that stage.
Sometimes windows will boot, but only one card will be functional, the other card does not show up in device manager or anything. Normally it is the RME that gets the short end of the stick.
With my previous sytem, they peacfully co-exsisted, but not now. I tried moving them from slot to slot to no avail. I don't know what to do. Is this an issue with the board? Id so, I'll just grab a dual VGA AGP card and that might do the trick. I need to get this system up and runng by May 24 10:00 pm(EST) at the latest and am at my wits end. Please help. I will respond to any and all inquries in the morning. I need some sleep.
BTW. Don't hesitate to go step by step. I am not overly advanced in computers. For instance I have never dealt with an IRQ issue and don't know how to go about it, or even to recognize if this is one. This is the first system I am bulding on my own, although I have upgrade quite a few.
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Irwin Santos
Go into the BIOS, then disable anything you don't need.. like the COM or LPT ports. Since you have the PCI audio card, disable the on board audio too.
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Hi irwinpks,
not trying to copy your suggestion,you were just faster ;)
Cheers!
not trying to copy your suggestion,you were just faster ;)
Cheers!
no problem. :D
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Same results still. The video card shows up, but xp does not find the audio card. I do not know how to set IRQs, but the rest was straight forward enough.
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Can you change the IRQ of an item that xp cannot locate? I still wouldn't know how to, just wondering.
what have you disabled?
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... one final comment and I'm off to bed (& gone tomorrow): Based on what you said above and the prior comments in the thread, I'm assuming these are true:
(1) You've already tried disabling the on-board sound to confirm that's not an issue. (If not, try that before giving up on the configuration you're trying to achieve)
(2) The Digi9652 works fine if it's the only PCI card installed. As long as this is true, you're pretty much home free. Just try (a) a dual-VGA PCI Express x16 card or (b) the Matrox Dual-Head-To-Go (the first should work; the latter definitely will IF the compatibility test I linked you to says your board is compatible with it)
(1) You've already tried disabling the on-board sound to confirm that's not an issue. (If not, try that before giving up on the configuration you're trying to achieve)
(2) The Digi9652 works fine if it's the only PCI card installed. As long as this is true, you're pretty much home free. Just try (a) a dual-VGA PCI Express x16 card or (b) the Matrox Dual-Head-To-Go (the first should work; the latter definitely will IF the compatibility test I linked you to says your board is compatible with it)
Sometimes moving the soundcard slot may also help. Did you try all the slots on you mainboard? At least with older cards that had 5 PCI slots, the soundcard would often work in the centre slot, and you often had to make sure the irq for that centre slot was set to 5 (which has already been mentioned).
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Just re-flashed my bios, and now everything is happy. I have both cards installed without a problem. Thanks all for your help.
Good !! Glad it's working well. I'm not terribly surprised that worked -- but I was thinking we had redone the BIOS during the dialogue with your earlier question r.e. the temps (however, I just reviewed that -- and although I had you check a lot of things in the BIOS, we never reflashed it).
One of the first things I always do when buying a new board is to update the BIOS. Manufacturers, for some reason, seem to be somewhat behind at using the most current BIOS versions with their production boards; and in addition, there's the distribution pipeline that can also cause a delay between the availability of a new BIOS version and boards that already have that version.
... this can be REALLY frustrating when the newer BIOS is required for the CPU you bought for the board !! (happened a lot when Intel first released Prescott chips -- and is probably happening now with the Pressler chips) In that case, you have to find a CPU that will work with the board just so you can update the BIOS -- and THEN you can use the newer chip. At least in your case the incompatibility wasn't with the processor !! :-) :-)
One of the first things I always do when buying a new board is to update the BIOS. Manufacturers, for some reason, seem to be somewhat behind at using the most current BIOS versions with their production boards; and in addition, there's the distribution pipeline that can also cause a delay between the availability of a new BIOS version and boards that already have that version.
... this can be REALLY frustrating when the newer BIOS is required for the CPU you bought for the board !! (happened a lot when Intel first released Prescott chips -- and is probably happening now with the Pressler chips) In that case, you have to find a CPU that will work with the board just so you can update the BIOS -- and THEN you can use the newer chip. At least in your case the incompatibility wasn't with the processor !! :-) :-)