Project Mobo - Aardvark

[mobo]

I did get some information on Chipsets that work flawllessly with the Aardvark cards as advertised. The nforce 2 chipsets, Sis 735, Sis 745. Intel 845/850.

The above mentioned chipsets only work as advertised with specific motherboards, so according to what I have read is that just the chipset is not enough to guarantee total compatibility.

In light of this I wish to invite all who have an Aardvark Pro 24/96 or Q10 to give us all detail if possible.

We need the exact model motherboard etc. Please give specs of the whole system.

I am only interested in systems that work flawlessly.

If you had a system that had some quirks, but you knew exactly what the problem was and how you fixed it, then let us know this as well.

This has proven to be very effective, for developers and users. For example Tascam had a system success posting for their Gigastudio software, and you will find flawless working systems. Today I run Gigastudio on one of these systems.

Please post your results here.

Project Mobo.

Thanks

Toney

[DS_Sultan]

OK, I'll play along with this. My system is flawless at this time. Never have a crash, reboot only to please myself and to do case cleaning and periodic maintenance.

System Config:

OS:
Windows 2000 Professional

Hardware:
Intel P4-1.5Ghz Processor
MOBO model D850MV, 850 chipset
512MB PC100 DRAM (2-256Mb sticks)
30GB ATA-100 boot drive on IDE channel 0 Master
130GB RAID 0 (3-45gb ATA-100 drives) drive array on a Promise FastTrak100 Raid card
HP CD Writer 8100 series CDRW on IDE channel 1 Master
Generic 52X CDROM on IDE channel 1 slave
Aardvark DP24/96 driver v6.53 (stable, so did not want to install the newer version driver as yet)
SB Live Value card running Windows WDM drivers
ATI Radeon AGP/4x w/32mb onboard ram as Primary video card
ATI Millenium PCI w/8mb onboard ram as Secondary video card
2 17" Hi-res monitors running in 1024x768 at 85hz refresh
I have three dual micro-fan drive bay covers, one each in front of the raid drives
Full Tower system with a 450Watt ATX power supply, with an additional lower front case low noise fan.
All running through an APC650 Battery Backup

That's it.

[This message has been edited by DS_Sultan (edited 01-27-2003).]

[Mr. Moon]

System Config:

OS:
*Windows XP Pro (SP 1)

Hardware:
*AMD AthlonXP 2400+ Processor
*MOBO ASUS A7S333, SiS 745 chipset
*1 GB PC2700 DRR RAM (2-512Mb sticks)
*20GB Maxtor ATA-133 boot drive on IDE channel 0 Master
*80GB secondary Maxtor ATA 133 Hard drive channel 1 master
*Lite-On 48-24-48 cdrw drive on IDE channel 1 slave
*Aardvark DP24/96 driver v7.04
*ATI Radeon AGP/4x w/64mb video card
*19" Hi-res monitor running in 1600x1200 at 85hz refresh
*330 Watt ATX power supply, with several additional case fans
*APC350 Battery Backup

Initaially, I had problems with a USB mouse which caused dropouts when recording with Sonar 2.1. I used a USB-to-PS/2 adapter on my USB mouse and disabled USB in the BIOS to fix this problem completely.

I have to disable the PCI network card (in device manager) when recording, or I get audible crackles and pops in my audio tracks that I'm recording in Sonar 2.1.

This system has been stable since day 1, and I have recorded many day-long sessions, and even a couple of weekend long sessions where the system wasn't re-booted at all.

-Mr. Moon

[mobo]

Great start...

Mmoon, what Brand Ram are you using in this system?

Anyone else, please post your results on the above criteria.

Toney

[Mr. Moon]

Samsung PC2700 333MHz DDR memory.

-Mr. Moon

[Nick Driver]

System NOT flawless :-(

mobo: ASUS P4T-E
cpu: P4 1.6a Northwood, oc'ed to 2.13 GHz (133FSB)
ram: 512MB Samsung RDRAM
hd: 2 x 80GB IBM 7200 rpm Deathstars, raid-1 on a Promise card
video: ATI Radeon 7500
cdrw: Older Philips 8x CDRW800
nic: Intel 100/Pro
os: WinXP Pro
Aardvark: Direct Pro 24/96

I get the 120+ second delay/hang when starting *all* audio apps on version 7.04 drivers, only cheap windows audio apps delay at startup with 6.35 drivers and pro audio progs like Sonar, et al start up quickly

[This message has been edited by Nick Driver (edited 01-28-2003).]