As far as I know it doesn't matter what direction the cable has, as opposed to an IDE cable for instance. Am I wrong?On 2005-03-02 14:57, stardust wrote:
oh sorry, with s-tdm I mean the cable that connects 2 or more scope boards in order to allow board to board communication without PCI, chipset involved.
Asus P4P800 Deluxe with 3 CW-cards, bad idea?
My problem can't be related to this.On 2005-03-02 16:09, stardust wrote:
right direction is irrelevant.
But one should always use the connection closest to the pluging panel.
I'm wondering if any of you reading this also still use several MIDI-out ports at once in your music making(?). Perhaps most people almost exclusively use VSTs these days, and record what little external sources they might have immediately to disc. That way, perhaps everyone on XP has the same problem, but no one really notices because the number of live external MIDI sources is kept to a minimum.
Any comments..?
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Well, i'm rockin a P4C800 deluxe, with 2 Scope-Project boards and a bunch of unimportant hardware that has no bearing.
You have to disable HT and use STANDARD MODE, not ACPI, and there are a FEW other things... Then it should work fine. Do a search on PlanetZ or somethin, i know there is a forum topic that CW referred me to when I was setting up my system.
(before i set it up right, my computer would lock up after like 10 seconds of midi/audio work in cubase)
It seems your topic went on a tangent about midi madness...
refocus!
aight... rockout
You have to disable HT and use STANDARD MODE, not ACPI, and there are a FEW other things... Then it should work fine. Do a search on PlanetZ or somethin, i know there is a forum topic that CW referred me to when I was setting up my system.
(before i set it up right, my computer would lock up after like 10 seconds of midi/audio work in cubase)
It seems your topic went on a tangent about midi madness...
refocus!
aight... rockout
Stardust has a good point here 
I've noticed that with a combo of PulsarII + 2xLuna or 2xPulsarII + Luna, the fact that the STDM bus connectors don't line up between Luna & Pulsar boards, can cause the STDM cable ( which doesn't like being twisted or sit naturally with this config' due to it's short length) to twist away from it's 'prorer' position. It could happen over time, or with just a little nudge when you're poking around in there. We've had some crazy system behaviour due to this, so it's worth checking with multiple (especially mixed) Scope cards which are behaving badly when they ought not to
A7N8X Deluxe has run CW cards well for us for a couple of years, but it's due an upgrade to Dual Xeon or similar.
I've noticed that with a combo of PulsarII + 2xLuna or 2xPulsarII + Luna, the fact that the STDM bus connectors don't line up between Luna & Pulsar boards, can cause the STDM cable ( which doesn't like being twisted or sit naturally with this config' due to it's short length) to twist away from it's 'prorer' position. It could happen over time, or with just a little nudge when you're poking around in there. We've had some crazy system behaviour due to this, so it's worth checking with multiple (especially mixed) Scope cards which are behaving badly when they ought not to
A7N8X Deluxe has run CW cards well for us for a couple of years, but it's due an upgrade to Dual Xeon or similar.
if you've checked the physical connections and they're fine and you have a midi-a source module from each card in your project and it doesn't work, something's wrong with your install. start over and save some time and trouble. format and reinstall from windows up. also, acpi should work on that mobo, although standard pc may work better. ht is something i'd turn off by habit, but if everything else was good on the machine, it'd probably work as well.