pm me !

Yeah, you only need a 400mb speed fire connection.

I was wondering why you don't use the MIDI port on the MOTU? instead of the MIDISport? I guess you have lots of midi gear to hook-up.

rcassent


All, i just finished a 2 hour support with Dell, nothing good to report, 1st of all, my firewire card has two ports but neither are 800Mbits/s, it is 400. the tech is going to try and send a replacement that runs at 800mbs with Texas instrument chip set. dont know if that will help. we were unable to pull both video cards as the bios based video card did not work and we could not get it to work, another story for anther thread.
 
all PCI slots are diffrent on this machine so i can not even juggle card in slots. the only slots i can juggle are the two video slots. i am gonna post my wininfo in another message as soon as i do some more testing. so even with one video card out and my usb card pulled, audio dropped out after 15 minutes using the motu 828mk3 for audio and the midisport 8x8 for midi. i use the same 50 track audio file with 20 plus midi  track, the track has a total of 144 tracks posted and is  2.86 file. using 1/16 if the processing power i using little of my 16 gig of RAM.

i am ready Startekh,  the gloves are off after opening up the case on the dell PC! danotehr uncessuful day and this means 1 week and still not working

I just realized you may be having an audio problem that I had noticed when I was using my midisport 8x8. MOTU uses a unified driver that works for both the midi product line and the audio product line. I seem to recall my midisport driver screwing up my MOTU 828 MKII under Windows 7 even though it seemed counter-intuitive why that should even happen since I was not using any midi functions on my 828. When I got rid of the midisport driver the problems went away.


I wish I could be more specific but it was a while ago. Just something that may be worth checking out. I don't use the midisport anymore.


Ken

> were updating stand by !!

@startekh - why do i feel like there is light at the end of the tunnel

RCA: your inbox is full clean it asap !!

well, we did work long and hard but after the defrag, the audio dropped out 1 minute into the 1st track.
all that work and no resoulution

OK was gonna PM you, but I'll just post a link to a tweak thread that you may find helpful. The link is below:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1862515

Thomas almost !! were going to chk that and do bios and amd video drivers , feel free to chime in !!

i had wrote a reply this morning but for some reason it did not post and i dont have time to write it again .

anyway - thanks to all for the support!

@davidbarnes - to tired last night to reply but i will after i talk to dell support this morning.
i am listening to your every question:

"A couple more questions, are your graphics card and/or firewire controller sharing and IRQ assignment with anything." 

i will post data on this

@starteck, i am still on the  mission if you are. asking Dell for TI 800mbps PCI card. i thought progress was better before i put the second video card back in. might pull it when i get home.

i have also aapproached vendors and asked to return all hardware and software if this is not resoved by COB thursday

RCA: we will go at this 1 more time, we have a few things we can try ! A bios update, you call Dell and do that !! real AMD drivers , il direct you to them ! Then: we have to factor in the motu issues as stated by 2 other support/users. inahearbeat thomasabarns and fastbikerboy, il ask all 3 to help out here as they know the motu unit .. we will kik the chit outa this till its fix'd or we move on to plan B, my orignal build !! never say die !

working with sweetwater tech - changes in bios

serial port - disabled
enable intel speed step - disable
c state - disable - direct hardware interface for power
enable virtual machine - disable
enable VT for Direct I/ - disable

 
disable a servoice calledd itel rapid storage
We have also installed another latecy montor recommeded by a user in this form

deleted the AU file the umpteeth time

now runnng a sequence

audio droped out within the 1st 3 minutes
 
the new latecy checker does not register anything

RCA good to hear , do note the posts about the MIDIsport 4x4 do PM the others they will help you, should you require more hardware updates , feel free to ask , Dell recomends you update the bios !! call them they will walk you through that .. its VIP you do it ..

 noiseboy: some systems are harder to configure than others , simple as that !! wrong firewire card.. your done !!

im sorry i cant help either but I too feel your pain, X1 drops out on me now everytime when using MIDI.I''ll be keeping an eye on this thread for sure!You will find the problem.sounds like a DELL problem.