PC Configuration for my First Scope-Home...

-SAM- · Post by **-SAM-** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:40 pm

Hi all.
I need help to build my new System, I will get my new Sound Card, Scope-Home + Luna I/O after 10 days....

I need Professional advice, about should to use nLITE And if there’s a special tweaks should to do it, I saw many post about this Subject but I want to get the best configuration, since I will use my pc only for audio application like Audition, WaveLab, for mastering and some Small Surround Project. No Internet nothing...
I have MSI 875 mobo, 1Gb ddr Ram Kingston 333mhz.
I didn’t get a hard drive should I get 1 SATA for window + Prog and another IDE for Audio.
Sorry for all this question but really I need a good guide. Coz I want to build a good System.

Best Regard.
-Sam-

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Post by **garyb** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:40 pm

definitely, another hd on another bus(ide or sata)...
the main thing is, use good quality parts with the latest drivers and everything should be fine. the gear you already have should work, no problem.

i would certainly turn off all the extra visual gimmicks on xp(go to controlpanelsystemadvanced and using custom settings, disable just about everything except use common tasks in folders). make it look like '98, choose classic in the display settings and disable the screensaver and avoid backrounds for the desktop... in the control panelsystemdevicemanager for hard drives, disable write behind caching and of course, before all this go to the bios and make sure plug and play is no and disable EVERY port, that you have no use for. i also raise the pci latency timer to 96 or more...

there are other tweaks before you even get to lite, but they're well documented on these forums...just doing what i mentioned here, along with making sure that the scope card shares an irq with nothing but another scope card and you should have a very stable system.

-SAM- · Post by **-SAM-** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:40 am

Thanks garyb for your information, do you know a place that i can get some information about [ IRQ Sharing ],And how to solve Sharing issue.

Best Regard.
Sami

Post by **garyb** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:16 am

i wouldn't worry too much about it. if you disable all unneeded onboard devices in the bios, it is unlikely that irqs will be a problem. if shared irqs are a problem, changing slots usually does the trick.

the cpu can only do one process at a time(more or less). an irq(interrupt request) is the protocol that a device uses to get the cpu's attention for a task. the cpu works on a problem for a period of time known as a cycle. the devices wait in cue to present an interrupt at the end of a cycle to get each one's problems worked on. if two devices try to use the same cpu cycle, the cpu cannot figure out what to work on and it freezes.

usually, problems arise when there are too many devices as there are a limited number of irqs available.

jea · Post by **jea** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:32 pm

On 2004-12-27 23:40, garyb wrote:
...... i also raise the pci latency timer to 96 or more...

Why would you do this?

My findings is with pci bus latency timer set to 32, there were less problems with my system.

I am using 2 UAD1's, 1 Scope Pro, a Firewire card with TC Powercore FW connected.

Best Regards,

jea

Post by **garyb** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:33 am

use what works.
i set it that way so that the scope card can rule the bus, but that might not be so helpful with all those other cards and such...

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