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UAD-1 and Powercore

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Snow Leopard 10.6.8
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i7 2700K
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EVGA GeForce 210
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I am having trouble with my operating system recognizing my UAD-1 and Powercore PCI cards. I have researched this problem and have come to the conclusion that the cards won't run in a 64 bit architecture. They need 32 bit. I have tried the arch=i386 command during bootup and have had no luck. Can someone please suggest another way to get these cards to work. While we are on the subject of 32 vs. 64 bit there is something I don't understand. Pro Tools is a 32 bit program, whether you are using a 32 bit or a 64 bit system I believe Pro Tools only uses 4 gb of RAM. This is the way it was on my Windows machine running XP Pro, a 32 bit operating system. My Hackintosh uses 64 bit architecture and I have 16 gb ram . Does this mean that when I am using Pro Tools it only utilizes 4gb? I built this machine to use as a DAW, exclusively. Can someone suggest the best way to configure this machine for that purpose considering the hardware and the Pro tools software I have. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with;

Z68XP-UD3 mobo
2700K Intel i7 CPU
16GB Corsair 1600 DD3 RAM
EVGA GeForce 210 512mb silent graphics card (just plain works)
Digidesign 003 rack+ interface
Pro Tools 8 software
UAD-1 DSP card
TC Electronics Powercore DSP card

Everythng else is working fine and I am sure that this problem is solvable. I bought this mother board for the two DSP cards I have because it has two PCI slots.

Todd Homchick
 
Hi,

i have used both the uad1 and powercore (PCI and FireWire) successfully on a hackintosh. I still use the powercore FireWire.


The last driver that supports the UAD1 is 32bit so won't run on a 64 bit OS, end of. The Powercore drivers are 64 bit, the plug ins are 32 bit, this will run on a 64 bit OS, I'm current using the poco on mountain lion. If you are going to use the poco with pro tools on mountain lion you will need to use the fxpansion RTAS wrapper which has problems with mountain lion. It does work with a change to permissions, but not with the default installation.

What you say about the 4gb limit on a 32bit OS is kind of right, the Mac OS gives each application use of up to 4gb of RAM, unlike XP 32bit which is 4gb of ram in total for everything, OS and applications.

As it stands do you need more than 4gb of RAM for Pro Tools? Probably not.

So, in summary, if you want to keep using your UAD1 card you are stuck on 10.6.8 in 32 bit mode. If you can lose the UAD1 card you can upgrade.
 
I ended up reinstalling the OSx in 32 bit mode. I guess I ran Multibeast too many times and created some sort of conflict. My UAD card is running fine. It sounds like if I want to run the Powercore as well I'll need to find an older 32 bit driver. I assume that since I am running in 32 bit, Powercore won't work with it's 64 bit drivers. Does that sound right to you?.
 
I got the UAD card to work fine but I can't get the Powercore PCI card to work at all. I have tried 4 different software versions but no luck. The control panel does not recognize the card. Any ideas? Sure would like to get the card working, it has some great plugins on it.
 
The problem may be the fact your motherboard uses the Z68 chipset. The Z68 doesn't have native PCI support only PCI-e.

Even though your mobo has PCI slots these aren't connected directly to the chipset, the PCI slots are connected via a PCI-e to PCI bridge chip.

Have you tried to put the Powercore card in the slot the UAD card is working in to see if that make a difference?
 
Yes I have swapped cards back and forth. Not only isn't the card being recognized but every time I try and install the software, ( 4 different versions now) it causes kernel panics and I cannot boot up except into safe mode. I was going crazy trying to find out why. I solved the problem through an exhausting process of elimination and discovered that by removing the pace ilok device, uninstalling the pace software and reinstalling it, the system boots right up no KP. ????????????????? weird!!!!!!!! The PoweCore card is there because the control panel shows the 10 plugins that come with the card as available. Maybe I should try the installation by first uninstalling the Pace software then installing the pace software afterwards????? Beats me??????

Todd
 
It could be that when I uninstall the PoCo software it takes the Pace driver with it.
 
Pace drivers are funny (not haha). I know so may people that have had issues with them, but I have never experienced any problems. I've been doing the hackintosh this in ernest (i.e. my main DAW) for three years and haven't had any problems that I could trace back to the Pace drives.

What you are explaining sounds like a PCI bridge problem. I has a similar issue when I had a Powercore card installed in a Magam PCI expansion box, the Powercore control panel recognised the plug-ins but didn't recognise the power core card.
 
You are probably right. Probably a bus issue. I gave up on it. Too many problems
 
The problem may be the fact your motherboard uses the Z68 chipset. The Z68 doesn't have native PCI support only PCI-e.

Even though your mobo has PCI slots these aren't connected directly to the chipset, the PCI slots are connected via a PCI-e to PCI bridge chip.

Have you tried to put the Powercore card in the slot the UAD card is working in to see if that make a difference?

Salty Dog is right. Your chipset does not support it.

You will need a motherboard with a backwards compatible chipset, such as the B75 series.

I am using the GA-B75M-D3V, it has one legacy PCI slot that is not bridged.

You can also try the GA-B75-D3V, which has two legacy PCI slots, unbridged.
 
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