Yeah, I'm thinking you're right

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It appears the problem is driver related with MAudio and the VIA chipset...

Seriously though, it should work...MAudio needs to get it together and write some drviers that actually work. I didn't spend 250 bucks so that I could test for them and then buy another mobo. Because it works half of the time I have to believe that it's totally a curable problem, but it just hasn't been a priority or something...

In short, MAudio can eat it. All I know is that if I go out and buy a new mobo, change it out, reinstall everything and it still doesn't work...I'm going to be REALLY pissed off.
 
Don't know what happened there

That was supposed to go down under the Delta 44, pop and click thread...sorry about that.
 
VIA can eat it. Soundcard drivers won't have a lot to do with performance problems (especially dropouts) if the chipset and chipset drivers are not up to snuff. Not to mention the actual implementation of the chipset. One motherboard with Chipset X will perform without a glitch while another motherboard with the same chipset will have all sorts of problems.

On a personal note, I've been bitten every single time I've gone with a VIA chipset. It only takes a couple times before I'm just not going to pet that dog anymore, no matter how friendly everybody else says he is.

Slackmaster 2000
 
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Were not supposed to use VIA chipsets with our Pro Tools either.... funny huh?..

It's stated right in the "Known conflicts" on thew ebsite
 
I think they just play the statistics. If 70% of their "clicking & popping" complaints come in from VIA customers (we all know that plenty of Intel systems have the same problems), then it's very easy to just say "um, we don't really support VIA". And you know, most audio system manufacturers have followed this same path. It hasn't been until just recently that m-audio started compiling a list of compatible AMD motherboards in fact.

With a system like protools, however, where you're going to pay ten grand for the audio system alone, they can pretty much get away with listing any system specs they want. If you're ten grand into pro tools and they say that you have to spend another $300 to migrate your system to Intel, then you're going to do it at the first sign of trouble. A lot of it boils down to costs I'd imagine. I would guess that a person purchasing protools will expect a rock solid system right out of the box. That means that the guys at digi really have to put a lot of effort into testing on a multitude of systems. Intel is problably the most robust choice, and choosing only one is probably most cost effective.

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