Asus & plug & play

[JoPo]

Hi..

I have some strange xite-1 behavior : since 3 or 4 weeks, sometimes, when I load a project, it crashes ; and I must stop the pc & xite, unplug it for 3 mn, then restart all.

I know that on my pc irq 16 has a lot of work : video card, xite and Scope PCI !

I just discovered that in my ASUS P5Q bios, I can let the bios OR the OS the plug&play management. For the moment, I updated the bios and I'll see if it goes better.

But my question is : is it better to let the bios or the OS for the plug&play management for a pc like mine : xite-1 + 3 pci cards + 1 powercore firewire (or to say it faster : an audio dedicated pc) ?

Many thanks for the info !

[garyb]

with Vista/win7/win8/win10, the os must assign irqs for everything to work correctly. you will need to juggle slots to change assignments.

[JoPo]

Oops.. Sorry, Garyb... Do you mean it's better to let the OS assigning irqs (But I'm not sure that bios feature is about IRQ assigning, indeed) ? Untill now, it is the bios that does it.

I show you the bios screen :

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So ? I set 'yes' or 'no' ? That IS the question !

>>-- unsustainable suspense --<<

If this fixes my weird Scope crash issue, I would be really happy !

[garyb]

just leave the plug-n-play settings alone in the default position!

the os will take control of these setting in any case. the message in the bios is generic. newer versions of windows must be in control.

the setting will not fix the shared irq issue. there is no way to affect that except for changing slots or disabling unused devices.

current motherboards require ACPI, which will result in the os controlling irqs regardless of the plug-n-play settings. these settings go back to win95 and earlier. they might affect some Linux or custom os installs, but they should NOT be changed for newer versions of windows.

[JoPo]

All right, garyb. I leave it like this ; you certainly know that computer stuff better than I do.

Thanks a lot.

[garyb]

sure. i doubt it would explode from changing the setting. it just isn't likely do do anything good.

[yayajohn]

jopo; I experienced some instability with my Xite/PCI combo not sure if others have but it seemed to happen over a period of time. Try the installers and see if it clears it up. Hope you find a solution.

[JoPo]

Thanks, Yaya.. I already tried installers without much success. I'm full of hope with the bios update... I'll see tomorrow how it goes but if there is no improvement, I'll install a 3 month years old good HD system image.

[JoPo]

Well... No success !

I'm thinking to buy new mobo + cpu = new pc...

I'd like to not make any mistake !
I have an asus p5q and I must say I've never been disapointed by asus. I have an intel core quad cpu q9550 2.8 Ghz and I'd like something better, of course but not 999€ ! And at least 16Mo ram.

Which mobo do you do you recommend ? With 3 pci slot !

Thank you for any advice, as I don't know at all what to choose...

[yayajohn]

If you are going to buy something new, why not just split the the Xite and PCI into two computers? I did and the Xite is 64bit and the PCI on 32bit and everything is peachy.

[JoPo]

Yaya, you gave me a very nice idea ! As my actual pc is not so bad, I could buy another one not too expensive and use both for music ! Linked via pci / xite adat i/o.

Excellent !