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Direct Pro 24/96 Owner’s Manual

THE DIRECT PR

O 24/96 SY

TEM

The Direct Pro 24/96 box should contain all of the following items:

• 1 Direct Pro 24/96 PCI host card

Connects directly to the motherboard of your computer

• 1 Direct Pro 24/96 Interface Box

• 1 6’ shielded 25-pin cable

• 1 Direct Pro Driver CD-R

• 1 Digital Audio Software CD-R

• 1 Direct Pro 24/96 Manual

If any items are missing or damaged, please contact your dealer or Aardvark Customer Support.

Email: Support@aardvark-pro.com

el: 734-665-8899

ax: 734-665-0694

Direct Pro 24/96 Components

Troubleshooting Guide

DIRECT PR

O TR

OUBLESHOO

TING GUIDE

Should

you

run

into

any

difficulties

with

your

Direct

Pro

24/96,

please

consult

this

section.

Although

most

problems are easily rectified this way

, do not hesitate to contact Aardvark T

echnical Support, or check our

website for up to date information.

Problem: U

nable to achieve full 4 input/6 output performance.

In
order

to
get

the

most

out

of
the

Direct

Pro

24/96,

you

should

have

at
least

MHz

processor

with

of
RAM

and

Mode

EIDE

hard

drive.

In
addition,

your

motherboard

should

PCI

compli-

ant,

and

your

graphics

card

should

or
PCI

with

minimum

of
2MB

DRAM,

VRAM

or
WRAM.

Many

performance

problems

can

be
attributed

to
poor

throughput

stemming

from

an
older

motherboard

or
standard

IDE

hard

drive.

your

system

does

not

exceed

the

minimum

recommended

requirements,

consider upgrading as soon as you can. Audio software requires a great deal of power

, and many older

machines simply cannot handle it.

Another

possible

cause

of
poor

performance

is
using

your

system

for

wide

variety

of
applications.

best

to
dedicate

your

system

to
audio

as
much

as
possible,

avoiding

shell

extensions

such

as
Internet

Explorer

Microsoft

Office,

Norton

Navigator

and

background

virus

scanners.

These,

and

many

other

programs,

have

elements

running

at
all
times,

taking

valuable

resources.

Press

Ctrl-Alt-Del

to
see

what programs are running in the background. Y

ou may be surprised!

Here are some tips for optimizing your workstation:

In
Start

Menu/Programs/Accessories/System

ools,

select

Disk

Defragmenter

(unless

you

have

another

defragmentation

program

such

as
Norton

SpeedDisk).

Select

all
of
your

hard

drives

and

defragment

them.

This

procedure

should

repeated

at
least

once

week

for

optimal

disk

perfor-

mance

In
Start

Menu/Settings/Control

anel,

select

System

and

click

the

erformance

tab.

Click

the

File

System

button

and

set

ypical

Role

of
This

Machine

to
Network

Sever

. Read

ahead

optimization

should

set

to
Full.

Click

the

roubleshooting

tab,

activate

Disable

write-behind

caching

for

all

drives

with

check

mark

and

click

OK.

This

will

reduce

the

possibility

of
data

corruption

following

crash.

you

are

using

Matrox

PCI

graphics

card,

click

the

Graphics

button

and

set

Hardware

Accelera-

tion

the

third

etting

(Most

accelerator

functions).

his

will

reduce

the

otential

loss

of
PCI

through-

put to the graphics card.

Still

in
the

System

erformance

area,

click

the

Virtual

Memor

button

and

activate

Let

specify

own

virtual

memor

settings.

Choose

the

hard

disk

with

the

best

performance,

set

the

minimum

to
50

(making

sure

there

is
at
least

available),

leaving

the

maximum

alone.

This

will

greatly reduce “

swap file thrashing”

, and improve overall system performance.