VIA KT133A- Yes!/ and DDR- NO!

[da BaSsTaRd!]

i just don't understand why this seems to be such a "case-by-case" problem, meaning lots of people got it to work and others (who are following exact setup procedures) can't make it work. it doesn't seem to matter the brand of mobo either.

if anyone has concrete info on this, please share because there are a lot of frustrated people trying to make music (fortunately, i'm only frustrated by my lack of talent!)

peace........

[JPS]

Digi Tech

I have just read the compatility documents, which now support Athlon processors, and found the following:
"Known Incompatibilities
Computers with motherboards containing mixed chipsets from AMD and VIA"

I'm sure you have done a lot of testing on both the KT133A and the AMD760/VIA686B chipsets. Is there some information you can share on you results and some insight into why your reached your conclusions?

[ July 13, 2001: Message edited by: JPS ]

[DigiTechSupt]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by JPS:
Is there some information you can share on you results and some insight into why your reached your conclusions?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

-Systems with mixed chipsets posted DAE -6045 errors in our testing cycle.

Brent

[JPS]

Thanks Brent for the reply. Personally, I have never experienced the -6045 error on my system with a AMD760/VIA686B chipset. So I did a search and found only 4 reported instances. One was on a Celeron 466, One was on a PIII 800, one was on a AMD K6-500 and on was on a Abit KT7 mobo, which uses the KT133A chipset. So I could not find any reported instances of this error on the AMD760/VIA686B "mixed" chipset.

From the posts it appears that users are able to continue there work when the error appears and there is no noticable effect. Could you enlighten us as to what causes this -6045 error? Was this the worst problem you encountered on the AMD/VIA chipset? Thanks in advance.

[yavuzj]

Hi,

My Problem with my Asus A7M266 (AMD/VIA Chipset) was only when recording. It gave me Hardware buffersize and running out of CPU Power errors. I think this has to do with these new combo Chipset's new architecture. I think this will be fixed by VIA soon. However, there is a workaround to this problem. If you use a Promise ATA controller ,instead of the Onboard VIA controllers, you will not experience any problems at all. This is my experience and it was confirmed by a few others.

[Dreamware]

I'm sure there will be a way around this soon.

Regards,

Alex T.

[da BaSsTaRd!]

i only got -6045 when i was overheating. took the side of the case off and never got it again........

[JPS]

Brent, is it possible that the -6045 error problem you encountered is more specific to 200 Mhz FSB AMD/VIA systems? The original unit that Ken LeGault tested on was a GA-7DX with PC100 memory. The Athlon supporting 266 FSB had not come out at that time. I guess I am wondering if your testing showed the -6045 error on AMD/VIA chipsets supporting the current 266 FSB, which is pretty much the standard.

[DigiTechSupt]

-Unfortunately, I do not know any of the specifics regarding the tests that were conducted.

-Although there are users who have been successful using an array of AMD systems, AMD Thunderbird CPU's with VIA KT133A chipsets is the only configuration our testing department has qualified with PT LE systems.

Brent

[yavuzj]

Hi ,

I am curious as well since I have gotten my system work. The only probelm was my onboard VIA controllers. I never got 6045 error though. I got hardware buffer size and CPU load errors. Event those were with 60-70 plugins loaded and trying to record 24 tracks on dave's test. Right now I can open up old songs and play them with no problem I can play the "Be there demo" with 120plugins (5perchannel) but never got 6045.