errors 9092 9093 9094

[gibboau]

High Guys,

I’m getting these errors "the OS has held off interrupts for too long" errors 9092 9093 and 9094I’ve recently upgraded my Mbox running PTLE 7.3cs1….for a 003 rack factory running PTLE 7.4 cs3 now I get errors when I play back and record… making the thing unusable
Ive done a quick surf of the forums and have found that it could be my onboard FIREWIRE (yes it’s a VIA)
Could this be the issue ?.. ive never had errors using my mbox (USB) on my current PC configuration
so im assuming that the onboard firewire is to blame….
The next question is: what firewire adaptors are you guys using? i doubt I can get the digidesign recommended ones quickly
Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers
Mike

[mano111]

You need to get a FW card that has the same TI chip as the Digi approoved ones (you'll need to figure that out - try google). I was lucky enogh to have 2 of those lying around one of them did the trick. after you install it disable onboard FW in the BIOS and you should be good to go.

[gibboau]

thanks for the reply mano111,

Ive got hold of a ADS pyro64 and why it has improved stability the problems have not gone away entirely
Now when I try to record a track using Sansamp PSA-1 it does the same thing random 909x errors
I already have a track with the sansamp plug in running (im just trying to overdub so solo’s)
Ive taken to not using it (sansamp PSA-1) and the problems disappear
My system is to spec re: the digi – hardware guide

Any help / Ideas would be great

Cheers

[jimst57]

I had a similar problem with a system. At first I blamed Pro Tools.

Then I discovered the cause.

Download and run this DPC Latncy checker.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

If you are seeing any red spikes in the output of the test, then follow the directions given with the tool to try to make them go away. In my case they just would not go away whatever I did.

I talked Dell into swapping the system. No more spikes when running the test, and no more Pro Tools problems.

If the system for whatever reason is generating Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) spikes, they break the audio stream and Pro Tools spits out an error.

[gibboau]

I ran that util.... and my PTLE pc didnt even come close to running into the "red"

[DigiTechSupt]

Can you tell us which steps in the Win XP/ Pro Tools 6.x/7.x General Troubleshooting thread you've tried?

Also, can we get a Sandra report, per the info in that thread?