DAL CardDeluxe shuts down my computer

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Just some thoughts...

Other hardware devices, particularly motherboard audio and other
soundcards might be causing the problem. The DAL card requires
two slots (usually somewhat specific) of Direct Memory Access.
These may be taken by something else. All my DAL cards are ISA
slotted, so I'm really not hip to potential PCI problems.

DM


<abresq@aol.com> wrote in message news:1107635317.006341.77040@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I just bought a CardDeluxe to install in my new Dell XPS computer
> (which is quite a bruiser-- 3.8 gHz, 2 meg of memory, etc.). After
> installation of the card in a PCI slot, the computer started up nicely,
> displaying the "Found New Hardware Wizard" as expected.
> I inserted the DAL driver CD and installed the drivers without a
> problem. When I then restarted the computer as instructed it started
> up, again, quite nicely until it was about 99% done with the bootup
> process --all the icons were already on the screen and so on -- and
> then suddenly a blue screen with the message: "Hardware malfunction --
> contact your hardware vendor for support. Parity check/Memory parity
> error. The system has halted.***"
> Removing the card removed the problem; putting it back again caused the
> problem to return. (I now have it out; otherwise I couldn't be writing
> this!) Looks like the drivers were installed successfully, though,
> because even though the card is now out of the computer a little square
> "CardDeluxe" logo thingie appears for a second at the end of bootup.
> Has anyone had this same experience? Does it mean the card is
> defective, or is there some setting somewhere I need to change???
> Thanks.
>

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Jeff Jasper wrote:

> I agree that you may have an IRQ conflict, but before you worry with
> reassigning stuff, try going to the DAL site and downloading a new driver
> for your particular card. An amazing percentage of drivers on CD have
> errors or bad code that are later fixed and available for download. If you
> have an older card, you might also need new drivers updated for XP and
> current clock speeds.

Are you trying to imply that people actually install the driver
that came on the CD-ROM in the box with some new piece of computer
equipment? I *never* do that. I figure the box has been sitting
in retail inventory for a month or so, and before that was in
a distributor's inventory, and before that in the manufacturer's,
and before the manufacturer made it, there was probably at least
like a 1 month lead time to get it from the driver author to the
people who duplicate it and package it. And somewhere in there,
it may've come over on a weeks-long boat trip from somewhere in
Asia.

So, in the world of computer equipment (especially new hardware
where they are still working out the bugs in the driver), I figure
there's a 90% chance the driver on the CD-ROM in the box is at least
one revision behind, if not several revisions behind. So unless
I need it to boot up the machine or something, I pretty much never
even open the CDs that came in the box.

- Logan

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Logan Shaw wrote:

> Are you trying to imply that people actually install the driver
> that came on the CD-ROM in the box with some new piece of computer
> equipment? I *never* do that. I figure the box has been sitting
> in retail inventory for a month or so, and before that was in
> a distributor's inventory, and before that in the manufacturer's,
> and before the manufacturer made it, there was probably at least
> like a 1 month lead time to get it from the driver author to the
> people who duplicate it and package it. And somewhere in there,
> it may've come over on a weeks-long boat trip from somewhere in
> Asia.

LOL! You are correct, sir!

Jeff Jasper
Jeff Jasper Productions, West Funroe, La.