Beware!! VIA problems still exist!!!

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After researching mobos on this board & elsewhere, I went with one with a VIA KT266A chipset. Many board members reassured me that the problems with the VIA's were solved & these were good boards. After 3 weeks of troubleshooting my clicks & pops, Midiman tells me that the KT266A chipsets are no good with their products. This is my own fault, I should have called Midiman before I bought the board. I post this as a warning to other people researching Mobo's. If you are using M-Audio soundcards (especially the RPC-1), stick to AMD chipsets (they are the only ones Midiman recommends) or go with a pentium.
 
I don´t agree about M Audio telling people to avoid Via chipsets, I wrote then a couple of weeks ago and they recommended me an Asus 7v333 mobo (via chipset) it seems like the new via chipset is ok.
 
I am using a Midiman Delta 44 sound card coupled with a Soyo Dragon Plus mobo which uses the KT266a chipset.. and I have no problems whatsoever.

Obviously your conclusions are flawed. Your issues may lie elsewhere, such as with drivers or conflicts or PSU or BG apps or software or etc. etc. etc... but you can't unequivocally say that Midiman doesn't "jive" with VIA chipsets, just because you have a problem and also happen to have a VIA chipset... because there are so many people successfully using the two together.

WATYF
 
I emailed Midiman before I bought my 1010. They told me all of the chipsets their card likes. They reccomended a whole bunch of different ones from AMD, SiS, and VIA. Plus various Intel chipsets. I went with an Intel 845 and a P4 1.6. No real relevance here, but still, I remember that at least one of their recomendations was a VIA.
 
hokypokynose, please post the list that they sent you, it is of great value to all of us...
 
I was just repeating what the tech I spoke to at Midiman told me. The boards he recommended were Asus A7A, Abit KG7, and MSI K7T Pro2 (which is strange because this last board uses the via chipset). The card I use is the RPC-1 (for use with Roland products). We pretty much eliminated all other potential causes of the problem. I understand many people are successful with this combo-thats why I bought it. I'm just saying it doesn't seem to work every time & in my case it didn't. If, when I replace the mobo, I still have problems, I will let you know.
 
BTW-WATYF, what are PSU or BG apps? This may be something we didn't try.
 
Spoke to Midiman again today. This tech agrees that it is not the mobo. He says I should try to get the card on a IRQ setting without the ACPI holder for PCI IRQ steering. He also said this was not possible with win98, which I am running. Does anyone know anything about this PCI steering?? Does this mean I need to switch OS?

Where are you WATYF & hokypokynose??
 
What brand of motherboard are you using now? A couple of things you can try, if it doesnt like the IRQ you are on. Go into the bios and reserve that IRQ for an ISA device, or try it in a differante slot. if you can afford to go to XP do so. Anything to shake up the IRQ assignments. Make sure you get the latest via drivers from thier website and load them. Thats should be the first thing. BTW, I have run my 1010 with it sharing IRQ with other devices, and I have never had a problem with pops and clicks...
 
Just to update this thread-The problem turned out to be a bad sound card. Roland replaced the sound card, I installed the new one & it worked like a charm. I only wish it hadn't taken 8 weeks to figure this out. Thanks for all your help.
 
Gald to hear you got it. It's easy to place blame with all the hype out there about the Deltas and the VIA chipset, but as others here have mentioned it usually seems to be something else. That's why the board is a good reference and you were not wrong to buy what they had to say. All this knowledge actually considering and debating your question is better than 1 or 2 tech's opinions IMHO :)
 
Sorry... I lost track of this thread... glad to see your problem got fixed...

BTW...

BG Apps = Background Applications... you never know when something that's running in the background can be conflicting with something else you're trying to run. First thing to do when troubleshooting problems with a new device/drivers is to be sure to turn off all unnecessary background applications.

PSU = Power Supply Unit... Sometimes when you add new hardware to your system, the power needed to drive that new hardware taps out your PSU. If you have a cheap PSU, and you try to run it at full load you can have all sorts of problems.. random reboots... crashing.. etc. etc. Similar problems can occur as the result of using cheap RAM.

WATYF
 
yawp, i emailed m-audio with the same question - about delta 44.

told me:

ASUS A7V333 KT333 worked great.

i bought it, and it does.

only problem is that i cant get ntrack to stop crashing...lol
 
shack... I had the same problem when I first got my Delta 44. It's real touchy with n-Track... I set the recording format to "24 bit unpacked left justified" and that took care of the problem. If I try regular "24 bit", it's crash city.

WATYF
 
WATYF said:
I am using a Midiman Delta 44 sound card coupled with a Soyo Dragon Plus mobo which uses the KT266a chipset.. and I have no problems whatsoever.

Obviously your conclusions are flawed. Your issues may lie elsewhere, such as with drivers or conflicts or PSU or BG apps or software or etc. etc. etc... but you can't unequivocally say that Midiman doesn't "jive" with VIA chipsets, just because you have a problem and also happen to have a VIA chipset... because there are so many people successfully using the two together.

WATYF
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With all fairness, back when I was going to go the AMD route I got 2 different answers regarding VIA chipsets from 2 different tech support guys over at M Audio. They're not exactly consistent.
 
WATYF said:
shack... I had the same problem when I first got my Delta 44. It's real touchy with n-Track... I set the recording format to "24 bit unpacked left justified" and that took care of the problem. If I try regular "24 bit", it's crash city.

WATYF
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i already got it set to that...still crash city, not sure what else to try here besides a reformat?
 
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