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tandersendk
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PCI capacity limit

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PCI capacity limit

Please help me before I´m going nuts.

I have 3 powersamlers, Scope version 5,1 - 2 A-16 and a lot of nice analog mixers and stuff. My PC for Scope is 10 years old, so I decided to buy a newer one:

Asus P8b CL4
Xenon X-3 processor
16 GB ram
1 TB SSD
etc

- and all my trouble started. Scope seems to work as usual, but when I started my DAW - Samplitude Pro 4, I receive this PCI message - when I start Samplitude. I have lots of lost audio buffers - in 1 min. it reports more than 1000.

I have looked all around on the forum and net to find a solution - done all the Bios/WIN 7 settings for power management etc. without big success.
I have an NFO file - but cant upload it in this forum

Is the system too old - I have loved this for many years - or should I just put all cards back in the old computer and pray it would last a couple of years more

Any help will be appreciated with lot of thanks
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I use two 9 years old machines ( I5, 8GB ) on winxp and win7-32 without trouble in scope.
But I had severe problems with samX3. Today I mostly use scope 7, which feels as stable as 5.1.
I suggest to try an other DAW to locate the problem.
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Hello Nebelfuerst

My PC is at least 15 years old - biggest problem with pc is the amount of Ram it is able to handle - only 8 GB.

I tried to run scope with cubase 5 - same problem - the message pops up the second Daw starts up - and my hair is getting greyer and greyser.
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it's not ram, and it's not the age of the system.

socket 1155 does not work correctly for the PCI cards.
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Hello Gary

You can find another solution or way around this problem?
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no, sorry.

those motherboards don't work right.
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The PCI-Cards have always been "delicate" about which chipset/motherboard they work well together with. The only way around this particular behavior is to find motherboards and chipsets that are tested and proven to work well with Scope. We have all become part time chipset mobo-alcymysts in here because of this problem.

In your case, the accumulated knowledge about mobo's with socket 1155 is that they are mobo's based on a chipset that SCOPE PCI owners should say far away from. You will have to get a new pc based on a different chipset.

The good news is that you still can find contemporary mobo's with chipsets which Scope accepts and works well with and which has 3 PCI-slots.

You should be able to find what you are looking for in one of these threads:

http://forums.scopeusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=35677

http://forums.scopeusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=35301

There are several other threads on PlanetZ on this particular topic, but those two sbove should get you in the right direction.

Good luck!
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Post by asiofixer »

Asus P8b seems to be a good motherboard
you need to put your pulsar pci in a lonely IRQ port
and disable other hardware using the same irq as scope pci
hope it help
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Post by nebelfuerst »

I use Asus P7P55d with XP and Win7-32 without problems.
Even SamX3 can be used with the latest patches. Nevertheless good old cubase vst5 is more stable than X3.
On some motherboards it does matter, what pci-slots are used for which devices.
I had to swap my digi96/8 card with my pulsar2 to get it working.
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Re: PCI capacity limit

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garyb wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:24 pm those motherboards don't work right.
Yea, true.

I have this computer with 1155 chipset, 3 x Luna II installed and Scope 5.1, but it's not my main audio workstation computer,
so i'm using it mostly like add-on setup synced to my main computer.
Here's my Reverb test for 1155 chipset.
7 reverbs, after 8 - pci limit reached
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