Oy...Catchy song name but not one I want to be writing to be honest!
So..my new system aint doin so well guys
Here's my setup and my trials and tribulations so far....
Asus P4S333 W/P4 1.6a(northwood) and 512MB PC2100 DDR-300Watt ATX PSU(with the 4 pin 12v)
Appian Gemini 16MB AGP Dual Analog Monitor
10GB Fujitsu 7200RPM(OS and Apps)
40GB Maxtor 7200RPM(Audio data)
CDrom and CDR/W
Echo Layla 20
Tascam US428
So, install all hardware into case...very sweet case by the way..Got to love Rackmounts!!
Installed OS(Win2k) Installed Service Pack 2 for Win2k...installed all drivers..etc etc..blah blah blah...
Open Nuendo..load a pretty heavy track/plugin song...press play...AAARRRGHHHH!! Music stutters and drops out..glitchy scroll across the song in the tracks overview window..I mean the scroll happens..but it will stop(along with the music) then jump a little bit to where it should be..sometimes racing to catch up to the audio..
I tried every combination of IDE combos..even with just the main hardrive..even tried a different harddrive for the OS(17GB Maxtor)
same friggen thing!!
Flashed the BIOS from 1001 to 1004...nope..Looked on Sis.com for any updates or patches I might need...nope..Looked on ASus.com for any updates of any other importance besides the BIOS!! AARRGGHHH!
Thought well, maybe it's the Memory..went out and bought two sticks of 256MB PC2100 Crucial Non-Ecc ram...took out the one 512 stick I had and tried the two new sticks...nope, same issue..
So I figure..ok, AGP card is quite old and is only 16MB I could use a new one anyways...got me a Matrox G550...nope, that didnt resolve it..
I have tried every BIOS tweak I know of..default settings to one tweak at a time...
The only thing I havent replaced is the motherboard
Could I have a bad batch syndrome?
The only time it seems to do this is with audio programs..
even wavelab was doing it..
So I installed Sisoft Sandra which can totally find every little detail about your machine and system information..quite a useful tool I tell ya!!
Turn out that the PCI latency time on the Layla card is 192 clocks! Ouch! Now, I know I'm a tweakhead of sorts but how the hell do you lower that one?!!! Also I'm not so sure if it even is giving me higher than 33Mhz on the PCI bus..
Also it says for tips and performances that BIOS Shadow is disabled and can be enabled...I've looked in the BIOS and cant find the damn BIOS shadow option to enable it!!
So now I've got
Asus P4S333 w/P4 1.6a(northwood), 1GB PC2100 DDR 266, Matrox 32MB G550 and the rest the same....
One thing to note as well...if I turn the disk buffer size from 128(default setting for Nuendo) to 32...things seem a hell of a lot better...
I've played around with the settings for the Layla as well to no prevail...
Have to say I'm stumped at this point..Just perusing thru the system seems totally fine tho!! Also I definately notice most installations going a hell of a lot quicker as well..
I'm not sure I'm sold on Sis if this turns out to be an issue with that chipset..looked soooo damn promising too..well, looks like I might go for that Asus P4B266 model..Intel 845!
Well, any thoughts folks? I know this was a disapointing post and all but if you thought I enjoyed it..well, ^#$% ya!! I love troubleshooting!!!! lol!! But I do want to have fun as well and unfortuantely this motherboard isnt lettin me have that fun just yet..
Any thoughts on BIOS setting? Tweaks? Ideas? Anything?
Opus
So..my new system aint doin so well guys
Here's my setup and my trials and tribulations so far....
Asus P4S333 W/P4 1.6a(northwood) and 512MB PC2100 DDR-300Watt ATX PSU(with the 4 pin 12v)
Appian Gemini 16MB AGP Dual Analog Monitor
10GB Fujitsu 7200RPM(OS and Apps)
40GB Maxtor 7200RPM(Audio data)
CDrom and CDR/W
Echo Layla 20
Tascam US428
So, install all hardware into case...very sweet case by the way..Got to love Rackmounts!!
Installed OS(Win2k) Installed Service Pack 2 for Win2k...installed all drivers..etc etc..blah blah blah...
Open Nuendo..load a pretty heavy track/plugin song...press play...AAARRRGHHHH!! Music stutters and drops out..glitchy scroll across the song in the tracks overview window..I mean the scroll happens..but it will stop(along with the music) then jump a little bit to where it should be..sometimes racing to catch up to the audio..
I tried every combination of IDE combos..even with just the main hardrive..even tried a different harddrive for the OS(17GB Maxtor)
same friggen thing!!
Flashed the BIOS from 1001 to 1004...nope..Looked on Sis.com for any updates or patches I might need...nope..Looked on ASus.com for any updates of any other importance besides the BIOS!! AARRGGHHH!
Thought well, maybe it's the Memory..went out and bought two sticks of 256MB PC2100 Crucial Non-Ecc ram...took out the one 512 stick I had and tried the two new sticks...nope, same issue..
So I figure..ok, AGP card is quite old and is only 16MB I could use a new one anyways...got me a Matrox G550...nope, that didnt resolve it..
I have tried every BIOS tweak I know of..default settings to one tweak at a time...
The only thing I havent replaced is the motherboard
Could I have a bad batch syndrome?
The only time it seems to do this is with audio programs..
even wavelab was doing it..
So I installed Sisoft Sandra which can totally find every little detail about your machine and system information..quite a useful tool I tell ya!!
Turn out that the PCI latency time on the Layla card is 192 clocks! Ouch! Now, I know I'm a tweakhead of sorts but how the hell do you lower that one?!!! Also I'm not so sure if it even is giving me higher than 33Mhz on the PCI bus..
Also it says for tips and performances that BIOS Shadow is disabled and can be enabled...I've looked in the BIOS and cant find the damn BIOS shadow option to enable it!!
So now I've got
Asus P4S333 w/P4 1.6a(northwood), 1GB PC2100 DDR 266, Matrox 32MB G550 and the rest the same....
One thing to note as well...if I turn the disk buffer size from 128(default setting for Nuendo) to 32...things seem a hell of a lot better...
I've played around with the settings for the Layla as well to no prevail...
Have to say I'm stumped at this point..Just perusing thru the system seems totally fine tho!! Also I definately notice most installations going a hell of a lot quicker as well..
I'm not sure I'm sold on Sis if this turns out to be an issue with that chipset..looked soooo damn promising too..well, looks like I might go for that Asus P4B266 model..Intel 845!
Well, any thoughts folks? I know this was a disapointing post and all but if you thought I enjoyed it..well, ^#$% ya!! I love troubleshooting!!!! lol!! But I do want to have fun as well and unfortuantely this motherboard isnt lettin me have that fun just yet..
Any thoughts on BIOS setting? Tweaks? Ideas? Anything?
Opus