Any luck with 3 Uad-1 cards on Asus A8V deluxe?

[Ole Breimo]

Thinking about getting me another Uad-1 when i´ve got my self a new DAW probably based on the Asus A8V deluxe. Any sucess stories with 3 cards..?

 

[rimbaud234]

I've got 3 in the A8V Deluxe. Things working good.

 

[Sixela]

Yep!

 

[csl]

Which slots do you use (yeah I've seen the thread)? I can only have my 2 UAD-1s in 2 and 4, with my Audiophile 192 in 3. In 1, 3 and 5 the UAD-1s aren't detected and show up in device manager with an error for some reason.

I'm using the Via SATA, Ethernet and USB, but the promise SATA chip, firewire, parallel and serial ports are disabled. What am I doing wrong?

 

[winnie_pooh]

... I can only have my 2 UAD-1s in 2 and 4, with my Audiophile 192 in 3. In 1, 3 and 5 the UAD-1s aren't detected and show up in device manager with an error for some reason. I'm using the Via SATA, Ethernet and USB, but the promise SATA chip, firewire, parallel and serial ports are disabled. What am I doing wrong?

I fear you have got one of these A8V Deluxe with partly not proper working PCI slots 1, 3 and 5 if the UAD-1’s are not recognised there. I just put in the UAD-1 in PCI slot 1, 2, 3, 5, and the RME HDSP in PCI slot 4 and they have been recognised in the first step. I think it is better to put the soundcard into PCI slot 4 because it is not shared with any other device.

I’m using the my A8V Deluxe Rev. 2 this way:

/*/ A8V Deluxe BIOS 1017
/*/ Athlon64 X2 4800 no OC
/*/ 4x1GB OCZ4001024ELDCPE 200MHz CL2.5-3-2-5
/*/ 2x Samsung Spinpoint SP251 250GB PATA1 & PATA2
/*/ 1x WD Raptor 740GD SATA1
/*/ 1x Maxtor Diamondline III 300GB 7B300S0 SATA2
/*/ Matrox P750 with xp2k_110_01_114_se_u Latency 32 IRQ 16 shared with FW1394
/*/ UAD-1 V4.1 PCI_1 Latency 64 IRQ 16 shared with FW1394
/*/ UAD-1 V4.1 PCI_2 Latency 64 IRQ 17 shared with Marvell GB Lan
/*/ UAD-1 V4.1 PCI_3 Latency 64 IRQ 18 shared with Promise IDE/SATA/RAID deactivated
/*/ RME HDSP Digiface 2.943 PCI_4 Latency 255 IRQ 19 not shared
/*/ UAD-1 V4.1 PCI_5 Latency 64 IRQ 16 shared with FW1394
/*/ WinXP Pro SP2
/*/ Sonar 5.0.1 PE

This setup works up to 97% UAD CPU load without any pops and crackles i.e. 28 1176LN 7 PPI’s per UAD-1 card rock solid so far.

Is your A8V DX revision 1 or 2? I would look for a replacement if possible because this mobo is end of life. I just ordered two more as spareparts because 100 EUR each is cheaper than a Magma chassis at the moment. Based on your problems I think I have to test them as soon as they arrive. :roll:

 

[csl]

Thanks again Winnie (replied on SOS forum).

 

[csl]

Just thought I'd bounce this as I've cracked what was worng with my system. Installing v3.9/4.0 and upgrading to 4.1 left me with problems with UAD-1s in slots 1, 3 and 5. I had to install 3.7 and upgrade to 4.1 for the UAD-1s to be recognised in any slot, and not just 2 or 4. So now I've the cards in 1 and 2, with my AP192 in slot 4. Seems to work perfectly now.

 

[winnie_pooh]

Glad to hear that your mobo is working right as expected!!!

Strange driver issue though. If I remember right I had some similar side effect in the past with the MSI K8N Neo2 Plat when I installed all 4 UAD-1 on a fresh WinXP installation without installing the driver package first. Then installed the drivers manually from the UAD-1 directory (RME style like) where I extracted the drivers through the hardware wizard. The cards have not been recognised properly. I de-installed the drivers through the device manager took the cards out and installed the driver package first and then put the cards in. Everything worked fine this way as described in the manual.

 

[csl]

Yeah, it was a bit worrying as it seemed to imply something was in the old drivers that was necessary for the UAD-1s to be detected on the A8V, which the new drivers lacked (or more likely that I had a corrupt 4.1 download, as the readme was empty for starters, but why would the previous versions also not work until I went back as far as 3.7?). :? Most folks will have upgraded sequentially through the driver versions (over the top of the last as UA suggest) and will have never encountered the problem. I'm going to keep an eye out just in case other new A8V users have the same problems.

But now at least I have the option to install more cards. :wink: