AMD - MOTU conflict

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Hey,

I was approaching the final plans for my Daw, when I hear in another thread that Motu has some sort of incompatibility with AMD. SHIT, there goes my dual 2400+ system! (I already have the motu from my current DAW, its the 24i with pci-324 pci card)

So I went to motu and found this

http://www.motu.com/english/techsupport/index.html

With my major concern being

"MOTU recommends wintel machines (Pentium II or III, and Celeron computers). AMD machines often ship with less efficient PCI chipsets. We've found SiS and MPV3 chipsets to be incompatible with the PCI-324 card."

This gives me some hope being that it says SiS and MPV3 chipsets are the problem. I was planning on using the A7M266-D motherboard with these specifications

http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7m266-d/specification.htm

Now, I see no mention of SiS or MPV3 chipsets, am I clear of danger?, or are the chipsets in those specs a completely different kind of chipset leaving my hopes poorly grounded?

I'm really psyched to finally build a new computer, and I picked out the illest case

http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage...43-09.JPG/11-124-043-13.JPG/11-124-043-14.JPG

Thanks!
Eric
 
all right, that tech support link doesnt bring you to the right article so hear it is,


Will my windows PC work with the MOTU PCI-324 Audio System

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The PCI-324 card ships with windows MME Wave, WDM , ASIO, and GSIF support for windows 98/ME/2K/XP.

MOTU recommends wintel machines (Pentium II or III, and Celeron computers). AMD machines often ship with less efficient PCI chipsets. We've found SiS and MPV3 chipsets to be incompatible with the PCI-324 card.

There is also a known incompatibility with Pre-1999 Via Chipsets. We have been able to get recent VIA chipsets to work in some cases by downloading the "4 in 1 update" from www.viatech.com.

One motherboard using the VIA chipset that has been working well for PCI324 users is the IWILL KK266 plus. This would be a good motherboard to use if you were building an AMD system.

If you're considering building a PC using the new DDR RAM based motherboards for use with the MOTU PCI- 324 card you may contact MOTU presales at 617-576-2760 for compatibility info.
 
funny, I just got a MOTU 1224 and it works great and dandy on my slightly older 1800+ system (SiS735 chipset motherboard), but refuses to work at all in my 2000+ system (KT333 chipset motherboard)

so in my experience, MOTU works fine on older SiS but not at all on newer Via. go figure.
 
They refer to Pentium II and III systems, the first clue that that is way out of date. The second clue is the MPV3 chipset, which I believe was a super socket 7 chipset (K62-K63 era).

That's probably three years or so outdated. Don't worry, new Via chipsets for AMD systems are actually quite nice, as well as that nVidia nForce chipset in the board you mentioned. Perhaps there is problems with the newer chipsets, but... well, that reference you found doesn't talk about anything remotely up to date. So, I'd either forget about it or try and find a reference to something recent.
 
all right, very cool :D , I'll probably still give them a call, cant hurt
 
for some reason i did not see belyrad's response before, odd

the tech notes mentioned that you could get some of the newer chipsets to work with new software, hopefully thats the fix if i have any problem, now i GOTTA call them
 
dude, i installed the 4-in-1's. i downloaded the latest BIOS, the latest drivers for everything in my system, i followed the MOTU installation instructions to a tee (strange as they are... install drivers BEFORE the card), i tried different PCI slots, i even tried reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP... all with no luck.

yet as soon as i put the card in my older system, it worked like a charm.
 
very odd, what motherboard were you using? That seems to be the root of the problem from what MOTU's tech support said.

Yeah, its weird that you have to install the drivers first
 
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