Hello. I am new to all this but I came here with the hope of finding someone that can answer a few of my ignorant questions.
I bought a new Dell Dimension XPSGen3 around November 0f 2004 with the intentions of eventually using it in a home studio with pro tools. I recently acquired an MBox and Pro Tools LE 6.4. After installing the software and connecting the MBox I began to run into a problem with the playback. I receive (error -6085)... Operating system has been in interrupt to long; increase H/W buffer size...etc etc. This, of course, has no effect whatsoever when done.
As it turns out, the Digidesign MBox is not compatible with the Intel Pentium 4 925x chipset on my computers motherboard. I have contacted Dell and been informed that there is no upgrade to the 925xe chipset available w/o screwing the warranty and it would cost as much as a new machine to get it done anyhow.
That is when I began to search for any possible alternatives to what is apparently a USB power issue. After intense hours of internet investigation and filtering through many pages of information I know nothing about, i came to one possible solution. At least I hoped it would be a solution. I read that some users with the same problem have routed their MBoxes through a powered USB hub. This, I have read, alleviated the problem and allowed them to go about the joy of recording. Alas and Alack, this has not worked for me. I have purchased a powered hub and it seems to have made no difference.
My question to you, the wonderful people who have made me sound so damn good in a real studio, is...
1. Is there any hardware settings that I should know about to make said USB the solution?
2. Has anyone out there had the same issue and brilliantly side stepped it to reach success?
...this is what was posted on the digdesign.com website...
The Intel 9xx family of Express Chipsets, including the Intel 925X chipset meets USB specifications. The Audio issues reported by Digidesign are not due to any direct USB issue, but appear to be a result of a documented errata (errata #7)
http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/specupdt/301474.h tm) on the B-1 stepping of the ICH6, which is stepping of the I/O controller used with the 925X chipset. The B-1 stepping of the ICH6 controller is also used with the 915G and 915P Express chipsets. Errata #7 may impact devices connected to the ICH6, including PCI devices and External devices connected via the USB port, due to an internal arbitration issue that may result in up to 40