PCI limit error with Two Pulsar II, help

musurgio · Post by **musurgio** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:37 pm

I have two pulsar II installed on pci slot 2 and 4.
3 is out of the question becuase it shares pci with onboard Promise ide controller ( Iam using it for extra devices)
PCI 1 is sharing same IRQ with PCI 5.
When I installed both cards on 1&5 there were tremendous problems occuring always reffering to as PCI limit reached.
So best place is 2 & 4.
Now I also have an ethernet 1000 controller and I am using FXTeleport with a second PC that is used for Atmosphere(LAN) and other synth modules.
When I open a project on SFP everything goes fine, after I open Cubase, fine too.
When I open under cubase any song that doesn't use FXTeleporting there is absolutely no proble.
When I have though a song that uses FXTeleport then this PCI limit capcity reached thing arises.
What I managed though to do is that if I close Cubase and say yes to retry connection for SFP and then reopen cubase evrything goes fine again.
I tried to lower bit depth to 16bit I alsotried PCI latency under BIOS to 64, but always on first Cubase open there is the error message thing.
I wonder if I change the PCI slot of the ethernet card (is sharing IRQ with promise ide controller) but promise controller has only a cd recorder on it.
I am afraid of thinking of a third Pulsar II anytime later if I will be able toraise the money.
Any oppinions ?
Thank
Dimitrios

Post by **garyb** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:25 pm

you need a motherboard with a later intel chipset and built-in lan,where lan is not on the pci bus.i don't think that an extra ide controller on your pc w/the cw cards is a good idea either.........

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:39 pm

You need to get as much off the pci bus as possible especially disable (if possible) the onboard promise pci ide controller. I was able to run a lan card ok on the pci bus along side 3 pulsar cards but I physically assigned it a low priority IRQ in slot 6 and only used it in a dual boot configuration where it was disabled in the production pulsar partition and enabled in dev pulsar partition.
Slot 1 and 5 and 2 are good to use as a three card setup. If you are having trouble using slot 1 and 5, it sounds like windows is not handling your irq assignments very well (may also be a motherboard thing). You may need to think about getting control back of IRQ assigments and setting them up manually and forcing the 2 (3, when you get another card) pci slots to the same IRQ.

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musurgio · Post by **musurgio** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:30 pm

Thanks...
I have seen some better results taking off IDE Promise controller.
I will keep checking.
I forgot to mention that I have a Powercore and a UAD-1 along with the teo PulsarII cards.
I didn't think that these card were causing any trouble but I guess all add to the pci buss very heavily.
I will update as long as I get my problem fixed.
Thanks to all.
Dimitrios