DirecTivo and Pitou IVAC...!!!

[visar]

Anyone having problems with DirecTivo and chronic IVAC every 2-3days during channel changing only. I get both Sony T60 and Phillips DSR6000 chronic IVAC every 2-3 days going IVAC... This does not happen often at all....may be one every two weeks with SLE3.1 but with Pitou....man.....IVAC. This drives me bananas...
My setup:

AMD AthlonXP1.6
256RAM
2-SIIG PCI serial 4S
Pitou-mux 157.5.1 FDi
Programmer with H card auxed with TurboAux3.0
1489 Emu
4-IRDs = T60, DSR6k, SAT-B55, SAT A-55

Oh yeah, and BAD INITIALIZING RESPONSE from Aux card. AB...
However, manual start up is doing fine.

Shit load of headache!
:mad: :mad: :mad:

[TechnoMage]

This may be just me, but anytime I see a problem like this and a 1489 chip involved - I'd blame it on the 1489. They are not made for this. I stopped using them for an EMU a while back because I ( in my setups ) would have alot of hardship with trying to keep a system up and going when the 1489 with in the loop. I know alot of people are running them and say they work great, but my main EMU system has been running for over a year and a half non-stop. Yes it's running SLE (PGM) ver 3.0, but still works great. It's sister ( the 'Tester ) runs just fine on any of the EMU Progs out there.
Long story - short. Remove the 1489 from the loop, try a different chip-based EMU ( borrow, etc... ) see if the problem repeats. As cheap as the chips are, it's a good start.

On a side note, you CAN have too fast of a CPU sometimes - slow it down a little and see what happens.

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Galen

[batman]

I agree about the 1489 emu. I'd also change the programmer to an unlooper though. Much faster, and will likely get rid of your problem.

[visar]

Any kind of reliable chip out there for me to try? max232? or ....? will also try it with the unlooper.....thanks.

[synthesis]

there was a whole thread on this posted within the last week or so... why don't you look it up? If I recall, there were a variety of emus and both sle and pitou discussed...

as far as single chip emus- find dxns for the max203 on larmo's ftp (yeah, OK, I made those- based on an incomplete design by somebody else ;) ). Otherwise use the 232 with 7407 buffer emu. 1489's have given me no end of probs that the others avoid.