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Old 07-10-2002, 12:36 AM
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Default HOW MUCH RAM

Currently I have 512 ram, xp. I was wondering if 1gb ram would make much difference. I have done all of the tweaks in xp in the duc. I am currently getting a audio drive to run @ 7200. My os runs @ 7200, but the drive I have in there now is at 5400. I get cpu errors 91something 9182 not sure, but it says to change the buffer and I do and it works some the stops. I have a P3BF 440bx @ 900mhz. It should have no problems I used the 5.1 without a glich. It could just be better. The ram, The drive, seems like a obvious choice. Any advice would be great.

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Old 07-10-2002, 04:59 AM
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512 Ram should be enough.
But the 5400 rpm drive could be a problem especially if the it doesn't support DMA.
Is DMA enable for both your drives?
The DMA tweak is on
page 4 of the Pro Tools LE 5.3.1 Addendum.
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Old 07-10-2002, 09:50 AM
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How do you set the DMA on the hard drives In Windows XP?

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Old 07-10-2002, 10:32 AM
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Default Re: HOW MUCH RAM

right click on MY COMPUTER, select properties, hardware, device manager, then go to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, expand it, right click on primary IDE channel and select properties, on the advanced settings tab there is the DMA stuff. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 07-10-2002, 10:50 AM
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From page 4 of the Pro Tools LE 5.3.1 Addendum.
(Page 8 if your looking at the acrobat page counter.)

1 Right-click My Computer, and choose Properties.
2 Select the Hardware tab.
3 Click the Device Manager button.
4 Locate and double-click the device for your
IDE/ATA controller.
5 In the IDE/ATA Controller Properties dialog,
click the Advanced Settings tab.
6 Under Transfer mode, select DMA Transfer
mode, if available, and click OK.
7 Repeat for any additional IDE/ATA drives.
8 Click OK to close the Device Manager dialog.
9 Close the System control panel.
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Old 07-10-2002, 10:58 AM
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I must be crazy but there is no advance setting tab in the IDE/ATA cotroller properties. Or under the the rest of the drives. The only advance setting i can find is to uninstall the driver. Should I do this?
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Old 07-10-2002, 11:31 AM
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OK, now I am thinking you may have just found the whole trouble.
Can you get your hands on a new hard drive with ultra dma?
Not sure the 5400rpm one you have will do it.
You will also need the 80pin IDE cables too.
Of course if your motherboard doesn't support
dma then that is another issue.
Check the specs on the mobo and the drive.
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Old 07-10-2002, 11:55 AM
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OK. the specs on one of my system is asus 3pbf MB. So DMA should be there in the device manager. But on both systems I have run XP and It's not showing up. My power system is Asus P4T522-C 1GB RDRAM 80 WD HDD 8MB buffer. With Windows Me The option was there. [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

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Old 07-10-2002, 01:07 PM
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Well that must be it. I'll try a 7200 HDD. Its a slave to the C drive. I think that should do the trick. If this doesn't sound right. Please let me know.

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Old 07-10-2002, 01:22 PM
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Well you know it will sound great to me. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
But seriously, please let me know if it works.
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