O1x-ASUS onBoardSC-Asio-mLan

[HeinzR]

Hi Folks!
My configuration should be found at the bottom.
I bought a new PC on X-mas, but I didn't bring the onBoard-SC to run with mLan / Asio.
So I use at the moment an extra SB-live PCI-card as a workaround.
Asio4All seems to be the right thing to bring the onBoard-SC to run, but I didn't understand how Soundcard/ASIO/mLan are working together.

My Questions:
1.
Why do I need a (Asio/WDM-compatible) soundcard when I'm using mLan?

2.
How can I find out, that my oB-Soundcard is WDM-compatible

3.
Can there be a problem with the ASIO-mlan-driver and the Asio4All-Driver. How they are working together?

Thanks

Heinz

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ASUS P5AD2E Premium WL
Intel P4/S775/540 3,2GHz Prescott 1MB-L2
(925X Chipset, 2xGB-LAN, 2x1394a, 1x1394b)
2GB PC4300 DDR2 Infineon
1x120GB IDE 7200rpm 8MB Samsung
1x120GB SATA 7200rpm 8MB Samsung
ASUS Radeon EAX300SE T 128MB DualHead

Onboardsound:
- CMI9880
- C-Media High Definition Audio 8-channel CODEC
- Coaxial, Optical S/PDIF out on back I/O port
- Features Dolby Digital Live technology


PCI-Cards
UAD-1 Studio-PAK
1394a Card ***
SB live ***

2x Gericom 20" 1600x

Yahama O1X
Cubase SX3.0.1
Reason 2.5

NI Komlette 2
NI Guitar-Rig
FXpansion BFD Drum-Modul
Tascam Giga Studio 3 Orchestra (on extra PC)

Mackie Big Knob

Quested F11

*** = I can't bring the Onboard-Stuff to work in the Music-Environment

[Michael Tippach]

The WDM device list in the ASIO4ALL control panel should give you an overview over the the dives that you _might_ be able to use simultaneously, provided they are properly synced to a common clock.

If a device is not listed here, this means there is no WDM driver for it installed on your system.

I have no experience with mlan whatsoever, so maybe someone else can add some insights here?

[Heinz]

Hi Michael!

It was my mistake.
The problem was not the installation of mLan.
The problem was that Cubase needs an WDM/Asio-Soundcard (even if I want to work over mLan)

But with the help of forums like this I solved it.

1)
I've solved the "bandwidth overflow"-problem of the 1394a-adapter during the installtion of the mLan-drivers with an registry-update from microsoft KB885222-x86-DEU (Theme: Performance of 1394 devices may decrease after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2)

2)
The asio4all-thing works fine with the onBoard-Soundcard, so I don't need the extra soundblastercard anymore.

Thanks a lot for Asio4All to Sir M.T.

Heinz