Can you quantify your exact configuration for me? I believe we have nearly identical hardware. I may not have hit instabilities because i haven't stressed it enough. jlc D R Holsbeck wrote on Sat, 10-Jan-2004: > Actually ;-) My milage varied. I had a lot of issues to begin with. I > tried moving IRQs around. Did not seem to be of any benifit. In my case > it actually made things more unstable. > > I have many hours of recording time on my setup. Using both Maudio > converters, and the Tascam DM24 for i/o. And have not had any real > issues when recording. Other than the screen going to sleep :-( Thus > leaving me with a jumbled screen. But Ardour keeps on going and going > and going and going.............. > > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:58, Jesse Chappell wrote: > > D R Holsbeck wrote on Fri, 09-Jan-2004: > > > > > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:36, Vincent Touquet wrote: > > > > > > > I see. Being on different irqs is good. > > > > The Dell Inspiron 8600 puts nearly everything on irq 11 (*shudder*). > > > > > > So does my A31. It does not seem to bother anything. > > > > I was able to get the slot with the HDSP on IRQ9 using the BIOS > > settings..... i'd have to check it to tell you exactly what i > > did.... > > > > I figure it certainly can't hurt to have them on different IRQs > > and 9 is the best one for audio....