a7v & dv500

[howie]

i have been a happy user of my dv500 for some while, but have reacently moved it to a new machine with a asus a7v motherboard only to encounter non stop problems. when using premiere, dv tools or media player it is very prone to hangin at any momment!!

i have updated all the drivers, played musical chairs with my pci cards and read every manual twice over..... so if anyone has any ideas what may be causing this i would be very greatful.

cheers - howie

[howie]

hi darren - cheers for your intrest
my system looks like this...

i'm running win98se
dv500 is in slot 1 and only shares an irq with acpi irq holder for pci irq steering (these share what ever irq i assign to dv500)
ati rage pro agp
sound blaster 128 - slot 2
SMC networkcard - slot 5

hope this is enough information to help you-help me

howie

[howie]

slot 5 is the bottom one - so it should be out of the way, will try without it installed though...

have already tried pinnacle bus enhancer - with no luck....

cheers - howie

[cresby]

A Computer Shopper journalist had huge problems with a DV500 and not much help from Pinnacle(despite threats to publish and be damned, as I read it you can work out the outcome!!!!). I use Studio DV on my A7V with AiW. I upgraded my Rage pro drivers and associateed ATI s/w. It needed DirectX7 so I did that. ANd for good measure I overwrote qdv.dll with build 146 (there are better newer ones on the MS site). It (pick one of the above) cured the jerkiness. The hangs are probably resource hog/memory leaks. Run MSconfig.exe and cull apps - reduce to systray and explorer ultimately - I do.
Reboot every time you enter the NLE (Premiere? 5? 6beta? 6?). I do but then my NLE is a Pinnacle product. COOL3D can be just as tricky when you get too ambitious. It is a resource overload / wastage.

[This message has been edited by cresby (edited 24 January 2001).]