New PC install trouble

[AidenV]

Gday Guys,
Been working on this for a good 3 days now. And at last resort. Im trying to learn everything as i go. But getting no where so far...

Ive gone through the faq's and done changes etc.

Its a brand new PC (I was on a mac g5), So PT 8 is 1st version for the computer. I did my research on compatability. I thought i was all good. Im having trouble getting the pc to recognize the the PCI cards.

I installed PT8 the 1st time and it went through fine. Then it just wouldnt read the cards. Allot of driver signing kept coming up, and i had allot of 'multimedia devices' in the sound, video, game controller hardware list (with yellow exclamation marks) allong with HD core card, accel card etc etc.

I tried unistalling and then installing again. Now it wont even install and keeps resetting to blue error screen saying "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

With the cards in aswell my internet usb stick doesnt read.

its a HD 2 PCI system.

I hope i havent missed anything simple. If any one has any help of advice that would be much appreciated.

*** SYSTEM ***
> Mainboard : Gigabyte EP45-UD3L
> Chipset : Intel P45/P43
> Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2833 MHz
> Physical Memory : 4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
> Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
> Hard Disk : ST31000528AS (1000 GB)
> Hard Disk : ST3500418AS (500 GB)
> CD-Rom Drive : HUAWEI Mass Storage USB Device
> DVD-Rom Drive : TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223B
> Monitor Type : AOC International LM925 - 19 inches
> Network Card : RTL8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
> DirectX : Version 9.0c (September 2009)

***MAINBOARD
Manufacturer : Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Mainboard : Gigabyte EP45-UD3L
Bios : Award Software International, Inc.
Chipset : Intel P45/P43
Physical Memory : 4096 MB DDR2-SDRAM
LPC bus : Yes
PCI Bus : Yes
Bus PCI-Express : Yes
USB Bus : Yes
SMBus/i2c Bus : Yes
Bus HyperTransport : No
Bus QPI : No
Bus CardBus : No
Bus FireWire : No

***MULTIMEDIA
Device Audio : 82801J (ICH10) HD Audio Controller
Device Audio : 82801J (ICH10) HD Audio Controller
Audio Playback : Realtek HD Audio output
Audio Playback : Microsoft Sound Mapper
Audio Recording : Realtek HD Audio Input
Audio Recording : Realtek HD Digital input
MIDI Output : Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
MIDI Output : Microsoft MIDI Mapper
Mixer Device : Realtek HD Audio output
Mixer Device : Realtek HD Digital input
Mixer Device : Realtek HD Audio Input
Device multimedia : AVIVideo
Device multimedia : CDAudio
Device multimedia : Sequencer
Device multimedia : WaveAudio
Device multimedia : MPEGVideo
Audio Compression : Microsoft IMA ADPCM CODEC
Audio Compression : Microsoft ADPCM CODEC
Audio Compression : Microsoft CCITT G.711 A-Law and u-Law CODEC
Audio Compression : Microsoft GSM 6.10 Audio CODEC
Audio Compression : DSP Group TrueSpeech(TM) Software CODEC
Audio Compression : Microsoft G.723.1 CODEC
Audio Compression : Windows Media Audio
Audio Compression : Sipro Lab Telecom ACELP.net audio codec
Audio Compression : Indeo® audio software
Audio Compression : Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (advanced)
Audio Compression : AC-3 ACM Codec
Audio Compression : Microsoft PCM Converter
Video Compression : Cinepak Codec by Radius
Video Compression : Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50
Video Compression : Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Video Compression : Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Video Compression : Intel Indeo® Video 4.5
Video Compression : Intel IYUV codec
Video Compression : Microsoft RLE
Video Compression : Microsoft Video 1
Video Compression : Microsoft YUV
Video Compression : Microsoft YUV
Video Compression : Toshiba YUV Codec
Video Compression : Microsoft YUV
Video Compression : Microsoft H.263 Video Codec
Video Compression : Microsoft H.261 Video Codec
Video Compression : Indeo® video 5.10
Video Compression : XviD MPEG-4 Codec
Video Compression : Microsoft Windows Media Video 9
Video Compression : ffdshow Video Codec

[x9blade]

have you tried popping out the cards and reseating them?
also, what PSU are you using?

[lifer]

Make sure you definately have the core card in pci slot 1..its often easy to get them the wrong way round on a pc mobo...

[AidenV]

Originally Posted by x9blade

have you tried popping out the cards and reseating them?
also, what PSU are you using?

Using coolermaster 550. Which i will be changing soon as its frickin loud.

I had already pulled the cards in and out 3 or 4 times...

Weirdly enough i got pro tools installed. I disconnected the hardware. Installed pt. then connected the hardware and repair installed pt again...

All the drivers loaded fine and installed all good. Im abit worried though as it was a bit dodgy. But it all seems to be running fine atm. I havent done any large tracking yet so will have to wait and see..


I took the cards straight out of the G5 and put them straight into the PC.

Slot 1 - Accel
Slot 2 - Core
Slot 3 -
Slot 4 -
Slot 5 - Graphics

This is how they were in the G5 aswell... I brought the G5 and HD2 already assembled so didnt do the install on that

[x9blade]

i had many problems in the begining on my hd pc build. it turned out to be a bad powersupply on my machine. i wound up with a pc power and cooling 720 w. good luck

[JamesV]

Originally Posted by AidenV

Using coolermaster 550. Which i will be changing soon as its frickin loud.

I had already pulled the cards in and out 3 or 4 times...

Weirdly enough i got pro tools installed. I disconnected the hardware. Installed pt. then connected the hardware and repair installed pt again...

All the drivers loaded fine and installed all good. Im abit worried though as it was a bit dodgy. But it all seems to be running fine atm. I havent done any large tracking yet so will have to wait and see..


I took the cards straight out of the G5 and put them straight into the PC.

Slot 1 - Accel
Slot 2 - Core
Slot 3 -
Slot 4 -
Slot 5 - Graphics

This is how they were in the G5 aswell... I brought the G5 and HD2 already assembled so didnt do the install on that

What case are you using? Currently assembling HD2 PC with Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R and would prefer no obstruction.