IRQ conflicts...XP sp2...help!!

[Mundos]

I just purchased an ASUS s96j barebones laptop. t2500, 2gb corsair...60gb 7200rpm drive...and a firewire soundcard for audio.

the main purpose of this laptop is to record professional audio...but its not possible at the moment because irq16 has 4 devices on it...so anything over 4 tracks of audio and it starts glitching out.

the bios doesn't seem to want to allow me to get out of plug and play mode...and windows of course isnt allowing changes to be made, even in safe mode.

any help someone can offer would be nice...$1900 spent, and i know the laptop is capable of doing everything i need it for...

help!!! lol

 

[Mundos]

so its saying there's no conflicts...but 1/4 of the devices are on irq16...wtf??

 

[Mundos]

bump

 

[hammong]

You've got some other issue - it's not an IRQ problem.

PCI 2.0+ compliant devices can share an IRQ under Windows XP with no ill effects. Most PCI devices access the system bus via DMA and do not trigger an IRQ unless there is a prioritization stack problem. Back in the 8-bit and 16-bit ISA slot days, IRQs were mapped one-to-one with a single device, and the device had to trigger an IRQ whenever data needed to be moved on or off the bus.

What brand/model of sound device are you using? Is the Firewire interface built-in to the system board, or on a PC Card/PCMCIA card? What resolution are you recording/playing back? When you say glitch - do you mean codec glitching or digital signal issues?

Greg

 

[corkyg]

Yes - laptop Firewire ports are only 4-wire - they lack power, and any device connected needs its own power supply. (The port is designed for camera offload.)

I do a lot of audio work with my laptop, but I use a Creative Audigy 2NX External (USB2) sound module. It works just fine. I've never run into an external Firewire sound module. Who makes it?

2NX