John,

To find your IRQs of each controller, go to Windows Device Manager => View => Resources by Type => Interrupt Request (IRQ) scroll down to the PCI devices at the bottom of the listing.. Be sure to set your Power Option to High Performance. If you are using wireless NIC, turn it off, the wired are usually less cpu intensive, and set your browser to come up in "blank" for a home page, no reason to wait on a crummy home page just to get the browser up..

73,
Dudley

WA5QPZ



John Vandenberg wrote:
Here is my promised update:
It turns out the Bios update did not make much difference in the DPC/hang problem. The problem shows when using the file browser or loading programs.

I also disabled the Cool and Quiet setting in the Bios.
I am using SP3 and don't run an anti virus program.

Cannot find the IRQ for the Sata hard drive. Anyone found it?

What should I try next?

John, ve3dvv

Message: 12
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:14 -0400
From: John Vandenberg <jvandenb...@mountaincable.net>
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FlexRadio Digest, Vol 53, Issue 9
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
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Yesterday I tweaked the Services using the list from Neil I found in the archives. It did not fix the problems.

Today I flashed the Bios (was VER: 0206) to V0601 and just started to test. The first program I loaded after FLEX hung PSDR. I tried a second time loading the program and it hung again. After this it appeared stable (much more than before). I did some Explorer browsing and that appeared ok. I will let it run 24 hours catching pictures with MMSTV and will give an updated report later.

Thanks for the Help.
    John ve3dvv


Message: 18
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:40:42 -0400
From: Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com>
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Explorer DPC's and Sata IRQ problem.
To: John Vandenberg <jvandenb...@mountaincable.net>,
    "flexradio@flex-radio.biz" <flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
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John,

There are several things you can try. First off, contact Neal directly. He may have an immediate fix for that system.

Second, update the motherboard drivers, chipset drivers and the BIOS. Some mobos had bad DPC problems until a BIOS update was done. You may have to contact ASUS and tell them about the long duration DPCs.

Turn off disk indexing or Microsoft Search 4.0.

Make sure that the power management settings are set for max performance.

Good luck finding the culprite.
-Tim


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Subject: [Flexradio] Explorer DPC's and Sata IRQ problem.

Using a new install of WinXP (32bit) and having PSDR (v1.18.2) hang problems due to long DPC's.
It does this when loading programs or browsing with File Exporer

The motherboard is an Asus M2A74-AM (same as Neil's system). The Firewire card has it's own IRQ.

Cannot find the IRQ for the Sata hard drive

Wondering if the SATA somehow is causing the problem.....

Anybody with suggestions?

John ve3dvv


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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:47:34 -0400
From: Neal Campbell <nealk...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Explorer DPC's and Sata IRQ problem.
To: John Vandenberg <jvandenb...@mountaincable.net>
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John

What bios version are you using? The latest is 0601. You also need to modify
all of the services that I mentioned in my email a while back (seach the
archives and see if you can find it).

To completely tune it, you can follow the tweaking tips at
www.tweakhound.com.

I spend about an hour building a system and about 3 hours tweaking,
installing and configuring all of the software.


Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
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www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
www.sdrsystems.com
(540) 242 0911

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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM, John Vandenberg <
jvandenb...@mountaincable.net> wrote:

Using a new install of WinXP (32bit) and having PSDR (v1.18.2) hang
problems due to long DPC's.
It does this when loading programs or browsing with File Exporer

The motherboard is an Asus M2A74-AM (same as Neil's system). The Firewire
card has it's own IRQ.

Cannot find the IRQ for the Sata hard drive

Wondering if the SATA somehow is causing the problem.....

Anybody with suggestions?

John ve3dvv




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