Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R :Documenting my issues with audio(stutter) & RAID - Page 2

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This is weird... If I turn on my Gigaraid, it takes the same IRQ as the ICH9R controller... But in the screenshot your provided, your controllers have different IRQs.

What board did you say you have again? GA-EP35-DS3R is the one I have. I have upgraded the bios to version F3e with no improvements. Both controllers are on the same IRQ

Is there a way I could change those IRQs manually?

You're right, I guess I need glasses lol

Would you be kind enough to try plugging a drive to your JMicron while a raid array is set up on the ICH9R???

If I do this, I get audio and mouse stutter. In fact it is system stutter.

Although my problems stopped when I disabled the gigaraid, I had a dvd rom plugged into the gigaraid when experiencing the stutter. Maybe we need to have something working on the second controller in order for the stutter to appear?

Thanks for your feedback!

If yours dosen't I'll send my board for RMA.

So far no skippy. i just went back to SP2 to make the testing more accurate.

With so many having this issue it would be good to find a solution. are you running the onboard audio?

I have my old sound blaster Audigy 2zs card for sound.

My friend uses onboard, but the DS3l board does not have raid or gsata. and its even a different sound card(ALC888 vs ALC889A for the DS3R boards)

Do you have a friend who you can borrow a sound card from?

Once i had an Asus(K8V SE) board doing a random audio skip/system studder but it was because asus broke it with a bios(and it was effected when running via raid, i bought a promise sata card just to make it work right then that card would not post so I rolled back the bios and it fixed it. so i never needed the card) update. I had to flash back to fix it. Since there are so many users with this problem(with every bios available), i doubt its the same. I just want to make sure its clear that such a thing has happened in the past.

James,

I would like to thank you for this anwser, I was using the WHQL drivers from Gigabyte and when I switched to the JMicro ones from the link you supplied the stuttering issue disappeared, nice one!

Thanks

Eddie

i have giga raid 2 physical drives no ahci "active" in the system this raid has system partition "xp" and anouther partition for data+ game installs etc (also a primary!)
same config for intel raid- no probs -all are 128kb secters (same as cpu and chip set "pass though" i believe?)
have tv card etc and audigy2 snd too run all in logic audio + others etc latency setup in aplications like that is vital and critical and the the difference between the audigy and on board realtek hd is masive ie: 5millisecs - audigy to between 256-512 millisecs on the realtek hd on board to avoid any sound brakeup and or artifacts! - pushing any harder could cause all sorts of on board probs whith this chipset i believe as it could be trying to sort out timeing in corections etc as much as passing data hence the skipping perhaps?- none the less this config (even overclocked intel quad) has been seemless for me -)