Art:
I also have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card and experienced a problem that might
be related to what you are seeing.
In my case, after I installed the card, the PC would not reboot after it had
been operating for more than about 20 minutes. If I removed the Santa Cruz, it
would reboot normally (and continue to reboot normally, no matter how long it
was operating).
As far as I was able to tell, the sound card was NOT otherwise defective. After
a careful examination of the motherboard, I discovered that the chipset cooling
fan was not running (this is the tiny fan that some motherboards use, not to be
confused with the CPU fan). I replaced the fan.
I also noticed that my PC was using a 300-W power supply. With my new Santa
Cruz card, combined with a high-end video card and some other toys, I suspected
that the power supply might not be up to snuff. So, I replaced it with a 500-W
unit.
After those two operations, the Santa Cruz has worked perfectly and there have
been no rebooting problems to date.
73 . . . Steve, WB8IMY
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Art Searle W2NRA
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:40 AM
To: RTTY@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Turtle Beach Santa Cruz problem?
Hi,
After reading the archive here I decided to install a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
sound card in my new computer last night. I removed the drivers from my
existing sound card (on the motherboard) and de-activated it. I then installed
the Sanat Cruz as specified in the instruction. I set it up on MMTTY. All
worked great. I even worked VP2ENK on 20m RTTY. I turned off the computer
(had to go back to work). When I got home I turned on the computer. It
wouldn't start. System recovered from a serious error (I choose go back to the
last know working setup). When it did start the Sanat Cruz was no longer
installed. I tried to reinstall it and it wouldn't. I reinstalled the
motherboard sound card and everything was back to normal. This morning I tried
again, this time with the intentions of installing it as a second sound card.
As soon as I turned it on the computer it would not start. I removed teh card
and it started fine.
So, Does that mean I have a bad Santa Cruz card? Anyone else have a problem
with these cards?
73,
Art
W2NRA
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