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.

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


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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.

wrote in message
ups.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.


I don't have the same card and computer you have but maybe you can try this
:

In my recent struggles with trying to get my MOTU PCI-424 card to work in my
new PC ( self built ASUS dual Xeon ) I 'thought' I had come across a
solution that fixed the problem, where the PC wouldn't boot with the PCI-424
card installed, but the system was still unstable and unusable afterwards.
( basically I got it all working but a day later I had to pull the PCI-424
card out to get to a fan jumper on the motherboard and since that time I
haven't been able to get it to work completely ( either wont boot, sometimes
will make it to loading Windows then lockup and once or twice I made it to
windows but it locked up on shut down ) so I'm jumping the MOTU ship and
going to products and companies that hopefully have higher standards of
hardware/software quality and customer service . . . I'm going to go with a
Lynx AES16 + Aurora setup which hopefully will work out for me )

Anyway, heres a write up on a proceedure that might help. I'll say again,
this initially help my situation but after problems resurfaces, this
solution didn't completely help. :

Symptoms :

Short Description :
Computer will not boot up or locks up when entering or exiting Windows.
Problem manifests itself after adding a new PCI card or removing an existing
PCI card then reinstalling it.

Detailed Description :
A computer was upgraded by installing a new ASUS NCCH-DL motherboard, CPUs,
memory and power supply. The following peripheral cards were reinstalled in
the new motherboard : MOTU PCI-424, Universal Audio UAD-1, Adaptec 29160,
Matrox G550. Initially the system worked correctly during the installation
of Windows XP and SP2. Twice when attempting to install the drivers and
software for the MOTU PCI-424 the computer would lock, up which required
removing the power to the system to shut down. The reason for this lockup
may have been due to the manufacturers requirements that the drivers and
software must be installed prior to installing the card. The card was
removed, the computer rebooted and the PCI-424 drivers and software were
successfully installed. After the computer was shut down and the PCI-424
card was reinstalled however, the computer would not boot. Removing the
PCI-424 would allow the computer to boot and run windows normally. Swapping
slots with the UAD-1 card did not change the situation. Curiously, removing
the UAD-1 card and leaving the PCI-424 in one of the PCI slots allowed the
system to boot but would randomly lockup either when entering or exiting
Windows.

Possible Cause :
The motherboard's PCI plug and play functionality didn't remove the settings
or resources for the PCI card when it was removed or improperly assigned
them when it was reinstalled, causing serious conflicts on the PCI buss.

Work Around :
Power off the computer, remove the last PCI card added to the system and
reboot.


Resolution :

Caution :
The following describes the steps taken to successfully resolve the problem
on at least one system. Computers and other complex devices can vary greatly
in design and features so the instructions below may or may not be
applicable to your situation. Use the below information at your own risk and
fully understand what affects they can have on your system before you
attempt them.

Instructions :
1 . make sure power is removed from the computer
2 . re-install all desired PCI cards
3 . power the computer back on
4 . enter onto bios mode
5 . from the Advanced menu select PCIPnP
6 . set 'Reset Configuration Data' to 'Enabled'
7 . exit the bios and make sure to save your changes
8 . allow the computer to reboot
9 . the computer should now boot properly and enter Windows
10. restart the computer and enter the bios mode again
11. in the Advanced\PCIPnP menu set 'Reset Configuration Data' to 'Disabled'
12. exit the bios and make sure to save your changes
13. allow the computer to reboot
14. restart/reboot the computer a few times to make sure it is stable



Best of luck!

John L Rice

wrote:
I just bought a CardDeluxe to install in my new Dell XPS computer....
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...suddenly a blue screen with the message: "Hardware malfunction --
contact your hardware vendor for support. Parity check/Memory parity
error. The system has halted.***"

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.

Jeff Jasper
Jeff Jasper Productions, West Funroe, La.

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

Here's a silly question, but have you tried installing the CardDeluxe in a
different slot? I had to try three before I found one that didn't cause the
machine to crash.

Peace,
Paul

MOTU needs the driver installed without the card installed. If you do it
backwards, it doesn't work. At least that was the setup problem with the
324. You'll have to go in and uninstall all reference to the driver,
disable the card, remove the card, install the driver, install the card, and
then it should see it properly when you reboot and do the card setup. At
least one would expect the same from the same programmers.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

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wrote in message
ups.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.


I don't have the same card and computer you have but maybe you can try
this
:

In my recent struggles with trying to get my MOTU PCI-424 card to work in
my
new PC ( self built ASUS dual Xeon ) I 'thought' I had come across a
solution that fixed the problem, where the PC wouldn't boot with the
PCI-424
card installed, but the system was still unstable and unusable
afterwards.
( basically I got it all working but a day later I had to pull the PCI-424
card out to get to a fan jumper on the motherboard and since that time I
haven't been able to get it to work completely ( either wont boot,
sometimes
will make it to loading Windows then lockup and once or twice I made it to
windows but it locked up on shut down ) so I'm jumping the MOTU ship and
going to products and companies that hopefully have higher standards of
hardware/software quality and customer service . . . I'm going to go with
a
Lynx AES16 + Aurora setup which hopefully will work out for me )

Anyway, heres a write up on a proceedure that might help. I'll say again,
this initially help my situation but after problems resurfaces, this
solution didn't completely help. :

Symptoms :

Short Description :
Computer will not boot up or locks up when entering or exiting Windows.
Problem manifests itself after adding a new PCI card or removing an
existing
PCI card then reinstalling it.

Detailed Description :
A computer was upgraded by installing a new ASUS NCCH-DL motherboard,
CPUs,
memory and power supply. The following peripheral cards were reinstalled
in
the new motherboard : MOTU PCI-424, Universal Audio UAD-1, Adaptec 29160,
Matrox G550. Initially the system worked correctly during the installation
of Windows XP and SP2. Twice when attempting to install the drivers and
software for the MOTU PCI-424 the computer would lock, up which required
removing the power to the system to shut down. The reason for this lockup
may have been due to the manufacturers requirements that the drivers and
software must be installed prior to installing the card. The card was
removed, the computer rebooted and the PCI-424 drivers and software were
successfully installed. After the computer was shut down and the PCI-424
card was reinstalled however, the computer would not boot. Removing the
PCI-424 would allow the computer to boot and run windows normally.
Swapping
slots with the UAD-1 card did not change the situation. Curiously,
removing
the UAD-1 card and leaving the PCI-424 in one of the PCI slots allowed the
system to boot but would randomly lockup either when entering or exiting
Windows.

Possible Cause :
The motherboard's PCI plug and play functionality didn't remove the
settings
or resources for the PCI card when it was removed or improperly assigned
them when it was reinstalled, causing serious conflicts on the PCI buss.

Work Around :
Power off the computer, remove the last PCI card added to the system and
reboot.


Resolution :

Caution :
The following describes the steps taken to successfully resolve the
problem
on at least one system. Computers and other complex devices can vary
greatly
in design and features so the instructions below may or may not be
applicable to your situation. Use the below information at your own risk
and
fully understand what affects they can have on your system before you
attempt them.

Instructions :
1 . make sure power is removed from the computer
2 . re-install all desired PCI cards
3 . power the computer back on
4 . enter onto bios mode
5 . from the Advanced menu select PCIPnP
6 . set 'Reset Configuration Data' to 'Enabled'
7 . exit the bios and make sure to save your changes
8 . allow the computer to reboot
9 . the computer should now boot properly and enter Windows
10. restart the computer and enter the bios mode again
11. in the Advanced\PCIPnP menu set 'Reset Configuration Data' to
'Disabled'
12. exit the bios and make sure to save your changes
13. allow the computer to reboot
14. restart/reboot the computer a few times to make sure it is stable



Best of luck!

John L Rice

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.