Try the $10 Syba card everyone is referring to.  The Lucent Agere chip 
set seems to be a winner and how wrong can you go for $10?

Bob



Philip M. Lanese wrote:
> Thanks for the heads-up Bob.
>
> The P4C800 Deluxe is the MOBO I switched to in order to run my original 3 
> board
> set and it still does it handily (4 years worth of Wiley's fixes later) with 2
> to 3% CPU usage (in spite of winblows) although WSJT will spike it to 30% 
> during
> decode.
>
> Can you elucidate on the Model you bought?  Or does Stor only make one thing?
>
> Phil,
> K3IB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert McGwier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>   
>> I have a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard on the machine I have been
>> developing on for a couple of years.  It has the VIA 6307 firewire
>> chipset on it.  I have been having problems that persisted longer than
>> anyone else.
>>
>> I have since turned off the onboard firewire controller in the bios and
>> replaced it with a Stor card (much later VIA chipset) and my problems
>> appear to be gone.  I cannot easily decide whether the older socket 478
>> motherboard or the chipset is at fault.  It could be lots of interrupt
>> stacking on the onboard chipsets. I just cannot say.  My suggestion
>> would be if you have this motherboard,  do not use on the onboard
>> controller.  If your mobo or plug in card has a VIA 6307 chipset in it,
>> do not use it.  With these things costing between 10 and 20 dollars, it
>> is not like a $500 sound card.  Get rid of the problem before it starts
>> and get one of the Agere chipset cards.
>>
>> Bob
>> N4HY
>>     
>
>
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