My MOBO is a MOFO

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 6:58 am

I'm new to all this Creamware stuff. It must be great....once it's working. Since plugging in my Pulsar 2 card, my CD stopped reading disks, first in the secondary IDE...now in the primary IDE.

I've removed all partitions on my hard drive, reinstalled XP, got all the latest bug fixes and drivers for my hardware, manually set IRQ's and moved the card to different slots. I've dedicated mobo resources, swore a lot, copied SFP to my hard drive, and now it won't even install from there........

Does this sound like a typical Creamware problem? I'm thinking my motherboard might have a fault. I'm so fed up I'm ready to go buy a new mobo, Cpu, and ram....

My present motherboard is an ASUS TUSL2-C, with 512Meg SDRam and a Celeron 1.2GIG CPU.

Any advice.......?

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Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 7:26 am

Hi Mikka - and wellcome

I have not seen this problem before. Have you tried the official forum?

b.t.w. are you a Samplitude user (I remember Mikka from the Samplitude forum).

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:37 pm

Thanks for that reply. I haven't tried the official forum, so I'd better do that. I suspect my IDE controller chip is shot but I wanted to put my problem out there. It seems configuration is critical for big audio cards and recording. Yeah...I'm slowly learning.

Re: Mikka...no, I'm different Mikka. I'm an audio recording novice.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 6:39 pm

Does everything work ok with just a vga card and nothing else in the pci slots?

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 10:18 pm

Hi Mikka! Welcome to the forum!

First of all, let me tell you I’ve just solved what seemed to be a big problem, but it was not. I was rather depressed cos I thought my motherboard was broken but it was not. Take your time to follow all the advices given here… don’t go buying things blindly before you are completely sure your MOBO or whatever else, is broken or faulty…

No, I’ve never heard such a problem with a Pulsar Board, problems related with Creamware boards are never hardware related, but software related, and almost 100% of them are caused by us, the user.

I think Bassdude proposition is a good way to try what is going on.

Another one: If you have several slots for your RAM, move your RAM from the current position to new slots and see if there’s any difference.

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:49 pm

Hey thanks for those suggestions. I pulled my cards out except the VGA card, and changed RAM slots for my stick. My CD reader is presently elsewhere. When I try to install SFP, I still get the little hourglass blinking for about 5 seconds, then nothing happens. My .exe won't execute.

I've taken all my programs off so I can't check everything else. I did have a problem loading VST instruments into Cubase, though. They didn't arrive........

Any comments are GREATLY appreciated.

j9k · Post by **j9k** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 4:46 am

i think the sfp install wants the pulsar card in the computer. garyb suggested to install the driver then sequencer then sfp.

j9k

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 5:12 am

Thanks for the warm and fuzzy thoughts. My board won't even read my hard drive today.........Talk to you from a new system when I'm richer.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 7:28 am

Woah! So that's without anything plugged into the pci slots? That doesn't sound good. But the CUSL2-c and TUSL2-c are very good boards, I had them myself. You might just be unlucky to have a board that has gone faulty.
Have you tried using new ide cables? I have had several cases of ide cables going bad in the past.