I just finished modding my Promise att66 controller card into a Fasttrak66 IDE Raid card. Everything seems to be working fine as most of the hard drive benchmarks I've ran have increased 75-100%. I'm using two 27.3GB 7200rpm WD drives btw.
The problem is when I try to capture anything with my Matrox Marvel G200-TV PCI. When I capture anything, the sound crackles and seems to be distorted every few seconds. I've tried changing my SB Live PCI card out with a SB16 ISA card but this didnt help at all. Then I used the onbard audio of my K7M and it got better with less distortion and crackles.
I removed the Fasttrak66 card and captured it straight to a single 27.3GB drive and everything was ok.
I checked promise's site and they suggested that the problem was that the Fasttrak card was using too much of the PCI bandwidth along with my PCI Marvel card. I've tried it with nothing except the Marvel, Fasttrak, and a sound card and still get the distorted sound. I also tried using their suggestion to change the drives to a master/slave setup but that didn't help either.
I was just wondering if anybody has had a similiar problem before or have any suggestions on solving this problem. I'm thinking that it's caused by Marvel being a PCI card instead of an AGP card. If it is, then there goes my thought of buying a RR-G to go with my G400 Max.
Any help or input would be appreciated.
The problem is when I try to capture anything with my Matrox Marvel G200-TV PCI. When I capture anything, the sound crackles and seems to be distorted every few seconds. I've tried changing my SB Live PCI card out with a SB16 ISA card but this didnt help at all. Then I used the onbard audio of my K7M and it got better with less distortion and crackles.
I removed the Fasttrak66 card and captured it straight to a single 27.3GB drive and everything was ok.
I checked promise's site and they suggested that the problem was that the Fasttrak card was using too much of the PCI bandwidth along with my PCI Marvel card. I've tried it with nothing except the Marvel, Fasttrak, and a sound card and still get the distorted sound. I also tried using their suggestion to change the drives to a master/slave setup but that didn't help either.
I was just wondering if anybody has had a similiar problem before or have any suggestions on solving this problem. I'm thinking that it's caused by Marvel being a PCI card instead of an AGP card. If it is, then there goes my thought of buying a RR-G to go with my G400 Max.
Any help or input would be appreciated.
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