Is it possible to test the PCI bus?

Hi,
It looks like you have all the PCI slots full. Is the SCSI PCI supplying a SCSI Hard Drive?
You may be overloading the PCI slots available power. Those four slots can only supply 15 watts each or 45 watts in total. A SCSI HDD can use 20-30 watts all by itself, not leaving much for the other three slots. You might get errors if you are using all four slots simultaneously.

You might try removing the PCI card that you use the least, see how it behaves.

Regards,
Dave

Hi

With the Quicksilvers I think the onboard USB ports and optical drive/hard drive ATA controllers all connect to the UniNorth north bridge via the PCI bus. If it is faulty, I expect you'd experience problems with these as well, which may provide a clue one way or the other.

Hi,
Sounds like a good cleaning, removing dust, un-seat/re-seat all the PCI/AGP cards, un-plug/replug all connector wires and maybe a new PRAM battery may help.
It's like a shot in the dark, but who knows??

Regards,
Dave

Just jumping in here... I'm an old ProTools user, always on a mac. A TDM bus error is related to the digi cards, most likely not the Quicksilver. I would suggest checking/reseating/replacing the ribbon cables that connect the farm cards to the core card. They are notoriously fickle cables and connectors. A TDM clock error means the cards aren't communicating with each other properly. Another thing you could do is try to isolate your problem - remove the farm cards (which you're probably using for extra tracks or effects), run just the core card and see if you have problems. I would suggest moving the core card to a different slot and testing it there, but I think that you have to have the core card in the lowest numbered slot. If your core card runs stably, then add one farm card and see what happens. Then add the other, and so on. There is also a meter in protools that shows pci bus activity, as opposed to processor activity, and it would be really relevant to monitor that if you suspect the pci bus. Sometimes simply pulling all the cards out, disconnecting the ribbon cables, and reconnecting everything fixes these types of problems.
And, finally, sorry to say, sometimes the cards go bad for no reason at all, and you have to spend money to fix them.


G4 Quicksilver Dual 800 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi rubberlug,
I had the same problem. I pulled out the farm card and digitest core card passed the test. when the farm was put in place again, test did not pass on both the cards. strange thing is that farm card passed the test when core card was removed. But nevertheless Digidesign specify to run the test with all cards and interfaces plugged in and powered on. with farm card removed core card works fine. with the farm in I keep getting DAE error 1 and 4 and digitest fails on both cards and for the same two DSP. I guess farm is gone bad... But I too was wondering if there's a PCI bus test. Did you solve your problem or find any way to check PCI bus?
ciao

Hi!

I bought a quicksilver 2nd hand and don't recall getting hardware test discs with it.

The AHT disc image is available for download here.

Gary


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