(Buffer) Problems with Dell 9400

[jordancolburn]

Thank you so much. That USB fix worked perfectly. I can finally run pro tools withou frustration again. Thanks!

[bspro]

I'll find out exactly what chipset it is...I don't have it with me right now. I have tried recording straight to the system drive and to a USB external. Same buffer problems. The microsoft drivers you mentioned...did you have to get specific ones for your firewire card from SIIG? Or did you just let windows find it?

[JMS40]

I have tried recording straight to the system drive and to a USB external.

Neither of which are supported or recommended.

[mishar]

The microsoft drivers I mentioned are the stock windows ones. The SIIG card I have installs it's own drivers to run at the 800 speed, but they are incompatible with the 002.
SIIG however provides a little application that allows you to switch the drivers on the fly ..(quite handy actually). So you can choose to have the microsoft or the siig drivers installed for whichever firewire cards are in your computer.

JMS40 ... he was actually just responding to a test I asked him to do, since it's the same laptop, and I can run sessions off my internal drive without the hiccups that he is experiancing... thanks for the info though...

[bspro]

Thanks for the info. I tried again this evening to no avail. However, the first time I loaded PT it started right up through the firewire card. But, as soon as the session loaded and came up it immediately shot up the buffer error and then gave me the "Pro Tools has experienced and unexpected error and needs to quit" dialog. I couldn't get it to find it again.

And to answer a previous question, it is a Texas Instruments card and it is loaded with the Microsoft driver.

I'm going to take your advice and do a fresh reinstall of windows...thanks for that thread; it is very helpful!

[JMS40]

Sorry. Could have happened to anyone who wasn't paying attention.

[mishar]

Another thing you could try playing with is a PCI latency tool....you can find various ones around the internet... and there are plenty of explanations around too

My internal firewire card is set at 64 and the SIIG is set at 248

Latencies will be reset when you reboot, so don't worry too much about experimenting.

Even though it's a PCI Express card, it still runs across a PCI to PCI bridge, so PCI latency is still very much a factor.

Out of curiosity which Expresscard adaptor do you have ?

[mishar]

Sorry. Could have happened to anyone who wasn't paying attention.

No worries ...it 'twas with the best of intentions .....

Or was it ?