2408 irq problems, please help me!!

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I have a motu 2408 and have been having noise, and driver issues with it. popping , driver issues where my pc has been rebooting. I have a 900 mhz athalon, 384 M ram, asus a7v133 motherboard, with the via 133 chipset. i have a soundblaster live also, ati rage pro video, modem, etc. I went to the device manager and looked at the irq listing, and the video, soundblaster, ide controller, usb host controller, modem, ACPI compliant system , and my motu stuff are all using iRQ 9. I tried moving it all around to different slots, but that didn't help. I went into the BIOS and configured pci slot 1 to use irq 11 and then plugged the pci 424 motu card in there, but it still insists on using irq 9. ARGHHHHHH!!! IS there anyway to fix this? please help!! I am using win xp home, and Sonar 1.13 if that helps.
 
This may not hold true for all motherboards, but my ASUS allows me to go into the Bios and select an IRQ and instruct it not to share. If you can do this you can move your card to that slot.
Now, it could also be a situation where you have to many IRQ's being used { I dont know what your comment etc.. consists of} and you wont be able to do that. Can you possibly eliminate the soundblaster ?
 
first off,take heart the chipset you have ,133a, will run with motu well.
i have an iwill mobo runnin the same thing in my studio now.
the software sonar too.
1. in sonar go to options>audio>drivers and disable the soundblaster outputs and inputs.
2. go to options>audio>driver profiles
stream>16bit should be set to 32bit pcm left-justified make it so
3.run wave profiler in options>audio>general
4.close sonar then reopen sonar
more to follow i sendin this now cause i lost the last version i typed
 
oops i forgot ,make sure record and timing master is set to the pairs of the motu's inputs and outputs.before you run the wave profiler
 
darn i just lost another 20 line reply, anyway..
make sure your clock source is setup appropriately in the 324 console and don't check off the use wave drivers box at the bottom unless you are only using the mme drivers that come on the motu's install cd.
in any case you might want to grab the wdm xp drivers from motu if you haven't already.
133a's will occassionally reboot when you try to shutdown you could go to viahardware for different 4in1 drivers than you have now. if i wait a few minutes after closing sonar before shutting down windows it's usually ok.
now if you are talkin about your system rebooting while working in sonar...then i only had that problem once when revalver didn't play nice with waves and pace protection.new pace drivers solved it.
ther was a way to change win2000 to standard pc from device manager don't know how to do it in xp but if you can find out how it probably will solve your irq sharing problem.
 
thanks for the help keith, Sweetwater sent me a 7 page document that turned off the pcia thing so that i could get the irq thing straighten out. I went through it all and it was looking good, then it rebooted again, and said my system/system32/config file was missing or corrupt, and that killed me. i had to load windows again in a different folder so that it wouldn't overwrite everything. I then backed it all up, and tried to reformatt my hd, but no luck. i'm about ready to buy another hd and start over. i did talk to the motu techs, and they had me install it again over the phone, and it worked fine. Go figure, but i'm still hjaving all kinds of windows errors, ( double OS??) i must have sent microsoft 150 error reports over the last two days!!! they(MOTU) did say with the pci424 cards, they have had no problems with the via chipset. I did download the 4-1 driver though....So, i don't know....the drivers from motu aren't signed by microsoft, so when i get all of these errors, it says that it was a driver problem, but it can't tell which one. i think that i have less problems when the motu is out of the system, but how can i prove it? and what should i do about it anyway? get a newer pc? they said that the hardware was optimized for win xp. jeeze, i'm worn out. right now i have only a modem, the motu 424 pci, and a ATI rage fury card in it. i downloaded 30 megs worth of service pack 1 and some critical updates, and i'm downloading the last 17 critical updates now. why you ask...i don't know! the rest of my system consists of 900mhz atalon, 384 mram, hp 9500 cdrw, floppy, and that's about it. anyone had any ideas, comments? i wonder if i should have got a delta 1010.....my 44 worked fine???
Dang, Jason
 
i feel your pain. i wish i could help you but i don't know much about xp yet i am runnin 98se.if startin from scratch doesn't work and no one else helps solve your problem here you might want to check out audioforums.com motu forum and the newsgroup product sonar.there are sure to be quite a few xp heads runnin 2408's there.a guy named scott reams of liquiddaw is very knowledgeable about all things motu and athlon he hangs on the product sonar newsgroup. and i think he's using xp keith
 
I tried using the drivers from MOTU website and still couldn't work right in XP Pro, but it is working fine with Win 2000 Pro, no problems at all. If you find a cure for 2408 with XP let me know too :(
 
thanks, i'll check those out and let you know what i can find out....in the mean time i did buy a new 40 gig hd and installed it, and then then mcaffe pro virus checker and checked everything, all checked good. i then loaded up the new driver, and then sonar, and as soon as i clicked on the ins and out on sonar, i got the blue screen! god damn it!! it says IRQL_NOT EQUAL OR LESS THAN.
 
sorry to bump this up, but wanted to say that I'm sending the motu back, and going to try an RME Mulitiface unit instead....the guy at sweetwater swear that it's built like a tank and shouldn't have any problems. The motu unit just would never work. looked like driver issues.....jeez it better work. I'm tired of messing around with it all....I haven't recorded anything for two weeks!:(
the voice prism plus is working great though....
Jason
 
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