Slow booting and starting of Applications caused by UAD card

[zvenx]

hi,
I have noticed for the past month or so, that my boot ups have gone from about 3 minutes to about 15 minutes....and starting applications take long....
I have confirmed with my DAW builder who is still testing other units that with the newer chipsets, like the 965 and the P35 like I now have.... if you have more than one UAD card in your system whether it is pci or pci-express the problem occurs. To confirm it, I took one of my two uad's and it is like a different maching my pc is now....
anyone else having similar observations?
rsp

 

[Golden]

yep, i have a similar problem with my card... it's pretty terrible actually... booting up is ruff... sometimes i have to restart the computer a few times to get it to boot.

also, it's caused a few freeze moments while using a few non-audio related programs.

once i take the card out of the cpu, everything is cool...

 

[zvenx]

are you using the same mother board?
and how many uad cards do you have?
thanks
rsp

 

[RWIL]

That really odd. My mobo is using the P965 and having 2 PCI UAD and nothing seems unusual. A cold boot from button pushed until all loaded in my session and including the time to hit the boot options menu and enter my pass at session menu = 1m 25.

Maybe an irq thing? Here both of my uad cards sit on their own irq and without any share. Is the same happen if keeping both cards & removing both MidiSport?

 

[secretworld]

I remember that more people have problems with P35 chip and uad. P965 is fine. I believe Akis was one of them..

 

[TripACT]

zvenx,

i'd recommend updating your BIOS version first.
Secondly, make sure you have most recent chipset, uad and other devices drivers.
Last but not least, try to switch card's (PCI / PCIe) placements.

Hope any of this helps.

 

[zvenx]

thanks for the advice.
I am using the latest bios for the p35, and the latest uad drivers..
removing all usb devices except keyboard and mouse doesn't change the bootup time etc, only removing one uad card.
thanks
rsp

 

[zvenx]

Truthfully I never noticed it with the 965 chip which I had up to about two or so months ago. Only with the P35.... But the daw builder who is very reputatble says he showed problems with all the latest chip sets.
the 975 is fine, but the 965, p35 and the newer x38 I believe was giving the same problems.
rsp

 

[RWIL]

thanks for the advice.
I am using the latest bios for the p35, and the latest uad drivers..
removing all usb devices except keyboard and mouse doesn't change the bootup time etc, only removing one uad card.
thanks
rsp

Ok fine but, is both UAD shared irq or with something else?
I know that users have no problem to have uad cards sharing the same irq, but on my older P4C800, that was problematic and was fine having all cards alone. When I built my new and actual system I still keep each card alone. I think it is an important point since as soon you remove 1 card the problem gone. So maybe that specific card share with something and which lead to your problem.

 

[zvenx]

well two things........ doesn't matter which UAd card I take out, just one removes the problem.
I only have 3 pci slots, and the only one that doesnt' share any irq is the one used by my audio card.
rsp

 

[RWIL]

Well, at this point and for experiment, you loose nothing to swap the audio with one uad (and later even with the 2nd one) and see how the system is going on!

 

[zvenx]

a few weeks ago, I had moved all the cards around, and the problem existed as it does now..actually when I got the motherboard the audio card was not in the unique irq position as it is in now.
thanks
rsp

 

[secretworld]

If you boot in safe mode, does that boot faster? If it does it is problably a driver issue. If it doesn´t it more likely to be hardware.