On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Drax Felton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want the problem fixed. I had no intention of bitching about it. > I was asked by Tim, W4WME, to report audio problems occurring with the new > drivers. So I did. > If anyone has any suggestions on how I can avoid the issue, great, send em' > over.
Here is the basic list: 1. Disable devices you aren't using for the radio. WiFi and BlueTooth are especially bad. Make sure that the IEEE1394 ethernet device is disabled. 2. Install the latest drivers from the manufacturer, especially for Ethernet and Video. If there is a driver available from Microsoft and from the manufacturer of the board or chip, get the one from the manufacturer. Some MoBos need a bios upgrade. 3. If your motherboard has IEEE1394 on it, disable it and get a PCI card that uses the TI chip. 4. Disable functions in windows you don't need. This is a whole message in and of itself. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Exchange seem to be prone to causing problems so don't run them when running the radio. That is a good start. > Whatever the solution I don't think a single DPC event, on a high end > system, should cause the radio to need to be shutoff and restarted. > Similar to what the other guy said.. modern CD players don't crap out when > bumped anymore. They just hiccup and continue playing. When my DirecTV > satellite receiver momentarily looses full signal strength the picture > "pixelates" and then keeps on going. I don't have to reboot it and re-tune > it. I understand how you might consider these to be similar problems but they aren't. Part of the problem is that it is difficult for PowerSDR to determine that this has happened. It is getting samples and processing them. What tells PowerSDR that there has been a DPC event so it knows to go into a correction routine? It has lost synchronization and it doesn't know it. It is not like your CD player or satellite receiver that knows it has lost signal and/or clock. Those are external, detectable events. This is essentially an internal hardware fault. Would you expect your CD player or satellite receiver to keep working if a component were intermittently failing? But as I said, this can be fixed in a straight-forward fashion. You just have to approach it at the problem -- the computer -- and not just at the symptom -- PowerSDR. And my apologies for my shortness. You are new to this and I shouldn't bite your head off. This is an ongoing thread with people continuing to complain about what is a computer problem, not a radio problem. Lots of people try to help but the complaining continues. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
