Can't get any sound to play on Pro Tools 8.0.4

[spkguitar]

Originally Posted by Benoni

says Athlon II here
Athlonll X4 630 (P) 2.8 GHz (95W)
•4000 MHz HyperTransport 3.0
•Socket AM3


http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=4223474

The Athlon II X4 is based on the Phenom II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...C_quad-core.29

[Benoni]

Originally Posted by spkguitar

The Athlon II X4 is based on the Phenom II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...C_quad-core.29

Based on, but not the same

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...he,2416-3.html

some Athlon II X4s will be crippled Phenom IIs but AMD insists that the new die will be used

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2836

[spkguitar]

I think the whole point of the "Athlon vs Phenom" question was to determine if the processor was one of the older Athlons that did not handle SSE correctly, and are thus not supported by Digidesign/Avid, and will not work for running Pro Tools.

As shown by both of our answers, that should not be the case for this processor.

[Benoni]

Originally Posted by spkguitar

I think the whole point of the "Athlon vs Phenom" question was to determine if the processor was one of the older Athlons that did not handle SSE correctly, and are thus not supported by Digidesign/Avid, and will not work for running Pro Tools.

As shown by both of our answers, that should not be the case for this processor.

it should not sense that was for X2 and K9 AMDs

Pro Tools 8 uses certain SSE instructions for drawing and other performance critical code. We have found that some older models of AMD chips from the Athlon 64 X2 (Athlon X2, AMD K9) family do not support specific SSE instructions used by Pro Tools, even though they claim to be SSE compliant. On these AMD computers, Pro Tools 8 will not launch. Unfortunately, this issue is not something we think can be fixed on our end, given the amount of custom recoding and testing that would be required. Current AMD chips and those manufactured in the last few years do support these SSE instructions.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by spkguitar

I think the whole point of the "Athlon vs Phenom" question was to determine if the processor was one of the older Athlons that did not handle SSE correctly, and are thus not supported by Digidesign/Avid, and will not work for running Pro Tools.

As shown by both of our answers, that should not be the case for this processor.

Exactly what I was wondering about. Adding an approved firewire card and installing a second internal SATA drive would be worthwhile to try(both items would still be of value with a new system if it failed to fix). Make sure ANY drive you use for recording(or samples) as NOT a "green" drive(power management is bad for audio). Tigerdirect has WD Caviar Blue 500gb(16mb cache) on sale right now for $39.99(I have some and they work well). Caviar Black are even better if you can afford one. Follow this link
Compatibility & Upgrade Information to find approved firewire cards(you have to dig in a few levels).