[RTTY] Turtle Beach Santa Cruz problem?

[Ford, Steve, WB8IMY]

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 at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Art Searle W2NRA
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:40 AM
To: RTTY at 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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