Sonar, Delta-1010, SBlive: Not broken. Fix it anyway?

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I just got my Delta-1010 and installed it to work with Sonar under Win2k while leaving my SBlive in place for another midi port, more ins, and an alt out for monitoring.

When I installed the Delta, I went into Device Manager and noticed the SBlive, 1010 and my video card were all on the same IRQ. To my surprise (after fixing my software settings) everything worked.
In the meantime I got the following from Cakewalk support...

"...Each sound and video card should be on its own IRQ number. Although ACPI is designed to allow easy integration of power management and PCI Bus resources, we have seen numerous cases where disabling ACPI has improved performance and eliminated resource conflicts. Please note that you will need to have all of your device drivers present when doing this, as Windows will re-enumerate your hardware and prompt you for the drivers...."

This was followed by a step by step procedure.

I wonder if anyone has done this and did it make a difference? I just afraid of losing what I have working right now, but the Cakewalk guys sound pretty convincing.
 
Don't fix it until you have problems. I have my Delta44 sharing with my video card! Originally I didn't set it up this way but I must've done something somewhere down the road. Anyhow, I didn't notice it until I actually SAW it. It's tempting to fix it, but it's not broken :)

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yeah....Win2k supposedly is fine with that kind of stuff for the most part. i wouldn't fix it.

You know, I often wonder about stuff like that. We have 2ghz processors, gigs of RAM and state of the art motherboards...on the verge of mainstream 64bit OS's etc. etc. etc. - But we still have to put up with IRQ? Surely there is some way of fixing this.

I don't know anything about engineering really...but, seems like if you started from the ground up stuff like "sharing IRQs" wouldn't even exist.
 
PCI busses these days work using IRQ steering which basically allows multiple numbers of devices to share the same IRQ without any problem, as long as both the motherboard and the card support steering, which, if both cards are working and they are sharing the same IRQ they both support steering. So the short of it is that you are supposed to be able to share IRQs and you shouldn't change a thing. The card installed itself right where it wanted and thats where it shoud stay.
 
It stays for now

Thanks for the responses. I'm planning to beat the heck out of the system this weekend. That is, record 10 audio tracks at once, input midi at the same time and see what my poor 5400 RPM HD does. I'm already planning to get a 7200 (probably tomorrow) anyway thus minimizing another potential bottleneck. I was able tonight to use the soundblaster midi port running MTC to and from my VS-880 HD recorder while inputting a midi keyboard part via the 1010 midi port. Flawless.:D
Thanks again. Will update as needed.
 
Damn! i told you to get rid of that of that SB card! Its only going to give you headaches down the road...I'm only kidding Chuck! Anyway, with w2k, as mentioned above you'll always (well, maybe not always) see IRQ's being shared. I t should be no problem.
 
Thanks for your continued support, Lavoz:) I have often thought of Windows and Soundblaster as antichrist 1 and 1a. But so far so good. Right now it's worth it just for the extra midi port as (believe it or not) I could not get a USB midi sport to work on my system under Win2k. (Forgive me if I already bored you with that one).
 
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