Please tell me what mainboards you have!

[eelco]

I think the Asus CUV4X isn't a good choice because it didn't work well with my ews64, whatever I tried... but my new abit bx133-raid works a lot better

[A. Lazzari]

I had a lot of problem with Asus CUV4X.
Asus CUV4X is a good MOBO but not for Audio applications!
You can find my old E-mail on this forum dated Dec 2000 and Jan 2001.
I discovered the problem was in the chipset.
IF YOU DON'T WANT PROBLEM PLEASE USE BX INTEL!!
This is not only a EWS64XL problem!
I found several audio card that need ONLY BX INTEL.
So I solved every problem when I bought My new MOBO Abit BX 133.
I don't know if ABIT still produce it, but I can say It's fantastic!
Everybody knows: It's hard to find a mobo with BX Intel Chipset, Isa slot and Pentium III together !!!
Regards...
A. Lazzari.

[jerry janson]

i use 1000mhz amd thunderbird on abit-kt7a 128 mb ram with ews v1.2-64mb sample ram. works perfect. except for midi-2 IN. midi-2 out is working perfect-dont no why.
Also sometime no audio output with swith on a or b and sometime together also no midi output on channel 1 from ews midi samplebank.
Kan het ook in het nederlands, dat gaat wat makkelijker.

[Matthijs]

I'm using an AOpen AX6BC mainboard (BX chipset, 128MB pc100, carying a P2-350@392, busspeed @ 112MHz), runs 'fine', at least at the hardware level

[Beta-Decay]

The Asus P3c-e works really well with the EWS as soon as you resolve any IRQ problems that may pop up.

Also, since the EWS is so long it runs into the jumpers, but they can be pushed over a little and it works fine.

I don't know how well the rdram compares to pc133 memory because I haven't had a computer to compare it to, but for everything else I do it is very fast.

[KKu]

Hm, I think my board is little "out of date" to this forum, but anyway:

Diamond Helios dual PII/PIII motherboard, BX chipset, 512mb ram and dual PIII/450MHz processors... and runs fine in W98 and W2K...

.KKu

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[Arnoud de Jong]

Hi guys!
Thanks for all you contributions so far. Yesterday I implemented them on the Tune-Up page of the EWSounZine. I couldn't fill in all the collumns, so if you want to add some more information about your mainboard, that's welcome (please refer to your original posting then, otherwise I don't know what goes with what).
Furthermore I realized that perhaps it would be a good idea to add a collumn to the table in which the used chipset (e.g. BX or Via) could be listed as well. I would like to hear your opinion about that. And your help of course, because nowadays I'm completely lost in this jungle of processors, slot-types, chipsets and mainboards. Please say that I'm not the only one!
And of course: more contributions are welcome!

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Arnoud

[philippz]

Hi Arnoud,

you?re not the only one who?s lost. I recently built a new PC and I had to do some real digging into the web to get an overview about all the hardware stuff again.
However, according to our discussion about Win2k;-), I think the problem about chipsets is quite similar: the EWS 64 was designed when the Intel 440 BX chipset was up-to-date(or even before). Supporting new mainboards is comparable to supporting new OSes: it?s simply too much for the EWS 64 and for the new products.
After all the things I read here and I know about mainboards in general, everyone who wants to use an EWS 64 without problems should stick with the 440 BX chipset.
In my eyes, the 440 BX is simply one of the best PC chipsets ever produced.

Have a nice sunday evening,
Philipp

[Beta-Decay]

The EWS seems to work fine with the i820 chipset also. If there are many devices there may be conflicts, but that is a problem for any chipset.

[eelco]

the abit bx133-raid is still available, you can order it in a lot of online stores, and recently I noticed that my local pc-store had the MB in stock