OK - update to our recent issue with the PCIe connected RME MultiFaceII:

In speaking with RME US techsupport (handled in the US by Synthax, believe it or not), they gave us a bunch of tips on what to disable as it pertains to power management.

There's quite a bit of power saving stuff in Win7 settings as well as BIOS that can be disabled - we went for the power hog option and disabled all the power management features on this machine.

Now the PCIe card is working fine.

Edit: Wherever you see PCIe in this post, I meant 'Express card'. Sorry for any confusion.

This issue was pre-driver installation issue - as soon as ANY PCIe card was introduced into the slot, the computer would immediately go into it's ENIAC era mode. Didn't even want to give the acknowledgement post about a card being introduced into the slot.

As soon as we disabled BIOS and Windows power management stuff, the card works fine.

Also, I gave an incorrect stat on the CPU, it's a Core i5, not an i7.

With all of that said, I wouldn't want to give up the ghost on the EMU. The 'm' series from EMU is known far and wide as probably the best pre-amp and A/D converter 1-2 punch in the PC audio world.

-Scott

Last edited by rockstar_not; 11/15/11 06:19 PM.
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