Intel® 915P Express chipset and the Intel® Pentium

[darkglass]

anybody using PT with the intel 915 chipset? and if so any problems? How about dave c test? tia


I should have mentioned that my hardware is the 002R

[chino_151]

Mine didnt work until I bought a 2.0 powered usb hub.

[FatBelly]

Any one successfully using this chipset with the Digi 002R?

[aaroneus]

intel 915g, 915p, and 925x are NOT compatible. But 915xe, 915gv, and 915gl ARE compatible. Acording to tech support.

[FatBelly]

According to the compatibility docs none of the 9** series processors are tested
and nothing is listed as of yet to state that they are supported for the Digi 002R.

Maybe Digi is waiting for the Dual Core Intel Processors to qualify new chipsets.

Who knows?

[darkglass]

LOL.... what a joke... no wonder so many folks opt for a mac. Does get a little crazy and I have a 12 year background in computers and IT. Btw: thanks for the tip off.

btw#2 I dont see much difference:

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/linecard.htm

there is a BIG difference between what has been tested and what doesnt work...


btw#3 do these compatability issues exist with cubase and sonar... not that I would buy those programs... just wondering????????

[Fran d'Valle]

Hi AARONEUS,

I have a doubt: where did you read the compatibility of Intel's 915 xe/gv/gl with protools le ?????


Thanks for your answer.

[FatBelly]

This is the only that Digi states out them

Compatibility Alert — Intel Chipsets

* Digidesign's Mbox is not compatible with Intel 925X, 915G or 915P chipsets.
* Mbox is now approved for use with the 925XE chipset. Digidesign has not yet tested the new 915GV and 915GL chipsets. Be sure to check with the manufacturer for the model number of the chipset before purchasing.

What about the Firewire units that Digi sells, what about TDM.

The part I find odd is that this board was designed to take full advantage of the
Extreme Edition Pentium 4 processors, which cost as much as 2 Mboxs alone which isn't realistic,
but none of the other 9*** series sets are qualified and this one was one of the later releases.

Hopefully something will happen soon.

How about a program that's not coded to kill the processor to keep the LE version in it's place.

[darkglass]

fats,

I spoke to HP last nite about the chipset issue here. He doesnt see any difference between a 915g for example and a 915gl... I want to buy a sony machine that is a 3.4ghz machine and uses the 915p Model
VGC-RA826G

•Processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 550 3.40E GHz with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

•Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
VAIO® recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition I WOULD CHANGE THIS TO XPPRO

•Cache Memory
1MB

•Front Side Bus Speed
800MHz

•Chipset
Intel® 915P

• Standard RAM
1GB PC3200 400MHz DDR (512MB X 2/DDR)(expandable to 2.0GB)

•Hard Drive
250GB 7200rpm SATA

•DVD+R Double Layer / DVD±RW Drive (supports writing video in double layer format)
Double Layer
+R
DVD+R write (2.4x MAX)
DVD±RW
-RW
DVD-R write (8x MAX), DVD-RW write (4x MAX)
+RW
DVD+R write (16x MAX), DVD+RW write (4x MAX)
CD-RW
-RW
CD-R write (32x MAX), CD-RW write (24x MAX)

•DVD-ROM Drive
16X max. DVD-ROM Read / 40Xmax. CD-ROM read

• Floppy Disk Drive
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive

Graphics
ATI Radeon™ X600
256MB Video Memory
TV-Out / VGA-Out / DVI-Out (DVI output: 1280x1024x60Hz max.)
16x PCI Express
Giga Pocket® MPEG2 Realtime Encoder/Decoder board with TV Tuner
•Ethernet
10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-TFast Ethernet (RJ-45)

•Expansion Slots
Multi-Media Card Reader (Memory Stick®, Compact Flash™ Type I and
Type II, XD Picture Card, SD/MMC, IBM Micro Drive™)
One x16 PCI Express (occupied by Graphics Card)
Two PCI (one available)
One PCI Express x1 (occupied)

•Expansion Bays
Two 5.25" Half-Height (occupied)
One External 3.5" (occupied)
Two Internal 3.5" (one occupied)
(Four 3.5” SATA Hard Drives can be accomodated if Floppy Drive is removed.)

•Port Connectors
Seven USB 2.0 (Three front/four rear)
Two PS/2® (Mouse/Keyboard)
One VGA/DVI Monitor Out Port
One TV-In/Out Port
One S/PDIF Out / One Parallel Port
One 6pin i.LINK Port (rear)/One 4pin (front)
One Headphone / One Microphone
S-Video: Two Inputs (front and rear)
Composite Video / Audio Inputs (front and rear)
Coaxial Input (VHF/UHF)

• Power Management
ACPI 1.0 Compliant

I nor anyone else can believe that PT wont run on it. This is sooooooooooo rediculous. Like I said before.. if it were not for the money issue I think I would by a power mac.

[madrock]

the issue was with certain USB audio devices, which obviously includes the mbox. the 002 works fine with these chipsets.