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So after literally trying EVERYTHING under the sun to get my 8pre working. I finally started pulling components.

I discovered that when my nvidia geforce card is not in the system and the drivers are uninstalled the unit works perfect.

I have a Windows vista system with 4gig RAM.

With my graphics card in, the playback crackles, pops and skips every second.

While using the onboard graphics the unit works fine...

Should I just go get a new (non-nvidia) card? Or does anyone know what else might be causing this?

Appreciate any advice you guys might be able to give...

wierd.

Which specific card is it? We use ALL nvidia cards and havent seen any issues at all with MOTU or any other interfaces.

How did it work with no graphics card? Do you have onboard? If so, its the conflict between the onboard and PCIe, not the nvidia card itself.

Ya, I have an onboard one too.

It's a Geforce 8500 card I believe.

I actually found one other forum where this was mentioned and they said it started with the newest nvidia drivers back in June.

I have a new system with a clean install of Vista so there are no old drivers lurking around...

I also have a firewire card I'm using, not onboard firewire.

Still not sure the best way to try and fix it...

Ive got a system up right now with a 7300GT on the latest nvidia drivers and it seems just fine in testing. Is your onboard disabled in the bios? Granted, I'm not usign many 8 series cards, as we won't build systems on Vista. The 7300 has been rock solid in hundreds of machines.

You can get older drivers from nvidias website. You can see if it is newer drivers by going back to some earlier ones.

Ok, well I went out and bought a Radeon based card and it seemed to work fine when I first hooked it up...after I installed the latest Radeon drivers the exact same problem resurfaced.

I updated the BIOS to the latest version and made sure every single driver was updated. I also tried alternating the cards in the PCI slots.

Still, nothing worked.

So I pulled out one of my blank HDs and decided to get rid of Vista and do a complete clean install of XP home.

Everything is working perfect now under XP no matter which card I use.

Chalk up another problem to Vista...

I just replaced my ATI card for the same reason under Vista 32. I have an Nvidia 8600 with the latest drivers. The ATI card caused all kinds of audio glitches and pops/crackles. The Nvidia card is much better for that but still pops when I shut down.