I haven't yet called DancingDots, but I called ADK today and I
swear the guy sounded like he couldn't give a damm and didn't even
know the specifics of the laptop system. I got the feeling they
just threw it together and called it a DAW.
MAudio basically told me to forget about using the Audiophile USB
on the system once they looked over the IRQ resource
allocations. There suggestion was to try using different USB
ports and if that didn't help... I got the same inoperability with
the MAudio Audiophile on all USB ports.
On my HP laptop, the echo indigo soundcard works like a
dreambecause it has sole use of IRQ 17 (probably just the luck of
the draw). On the ADK it sounds like its been buried in river
mud. Again, IRQ resource allocations seem to be the culpret as
the video chipset is hogging all the resources on the IRQ that it
shares with the USB and Cardbus. So, the USB ports(where the
audiophileUSB soundcard would go), the PC Cardbus (where the echo
indigo goes) and the graphics all share the same IRQ 16, and, the
graphics always win in resource allocation which leaves the other
devices sucking wind. There is graphics acceleration which I
suppose could be reduced to free up some resources, but thats not
an acceptable solution for the cost.
I don't know all this for absolutely sure, but from talking with
the techs at MAudio, looking over the system device info, and what
I've experienced with both soundcards thus far, its hard to see a bright side.
I sure hope you're right Luis, and I'll give it a few days and
wait to talk with some people from DancingDots and ADK(again), but
right now, from what I've experienced thus far, this isn't a DAW, its a
DOG
----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Elorza" <luiselorza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:52 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: ADK laptop owners, soundcards please
i guess adk and dancing dots must have good support.did you try calling?
be patient every piece of gear is always like a wild untamed
horse you have to domesticate.
and sometimes it takes a few days.
i wish i had bought one of those machines
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ddots-l" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] ADK laptop owners, soundcards please
To anyone who is using an ADK laptop purchased from ADK (either
directly or via dancing dots), please chime in and give me the
details of the soundcard you are using.
Please be specific as to connection (firewire, USB etc), Brand &
model, and any quirky little problems you've encountered. I am
having tremendous trouble with this system and am all but
determined to return this machine.
Please help me to understand the problems I've encountered by
giving me details of your successful implementations.
As I've been able to determine thus far, the graphics card
(Envidia) is stacked on the same IRQ as the Cardbus controller
and USB controller and something else I can't remember, and this
configuration has made USB soundcard(audiophileUSB) completely
unusable, and the cardbus virtually unusable. I don't know if
this is a standard configuration, or if the tech guy was having
a really bad day.
Okay, I'll spare you all the full depth of my disgust... Please
chime in with details of your system configurations if you would
Thanks,
Phil Halton -- just a guy who's toying with the idea of tossing
technology back into the hell pit it came from...
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