Delta 1010

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A plea for help if anyone can!

I have had a 1010 for several years now in a machine with an Abit board and Celeron chip (now1100), alongside a turtle beach Pinnacle card (for the sampler and DB50XG).

It usually works fine for normal recording - forget using it with stand alone soft-synths (large latency and poor emulated directX)or multi-client use - poor drivers.
The only stable drivers are the .27 - non multi-client drivers - the others crack up if you are using Sonic Foundry programs.

However it developed a 'motor-boating' sound for the first few minutes of starting the PC, which although is fine after a few minutes - was annoying. Midiman support just send me Std answers citing setup and IRQ resolution methods - but nothing of any use - such as _ 'yes we have seen the fault before and this is how you fix it / get an exchange board' or whatever...

I thought I'd shift the 1010 to IRQ 10 which they recommend. Unfortunately after a lot of shunting components around on the IRQs, no improvement was found - and the 1010 now distorts on playing... I've tried putting everything back as it was, (IRQ11), and reinstalling the drivers from scratch, but it still distorts on playing anything...

Any ideas anyone?
Thanks!

RevF
 
Oh well - I think I've found the source of the problem...
I noticed a smell in the studio...
I think a capacitor has had it in the the AD/DA box.
The reason I think this is because this is consistent with the profile of the noise problem as it got up to charge, and it stunk and there was a heat-mark on the inside casing.
Any electricians out there care to comment?
Sods law says this means a whole new £500 box unless I can get someone to charge me the 30pence or so for the capacitor...
Anyone else had similar problems with a 1010?
 
Delta 1010 - Good News!

Although the US support desk kept plying me with FAQ answers to my hardware problem, the UK desk was very helpful. - Apparently this is a known problem of "a batch of dodgy capacitors" and they will fix it for free!
Excellent result!
 
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