Decklink Extreme PCI + Vista 64 + 4G ram

[Thomas Madroszkiewicz]

Hey Yasser!

I’m having the same problem now.

I tried almost everything. Even contacted Blackmagic but there were no answer.

Vista x64 Ultimate + Tyan Thunder K8WE mobo + Declink Extreme PCI + 4gB kingston ECC RAM. And the card works only if I remove 2GB of ram.

Do you get some help with this.. or you changed to Vista 32??

Cheers,
Thomas

[Yasser Amin]

Hello Thomas

No way to get Decklink PCI working under XP or Vista 64 with 4G ram

I switched to Vista 32 with CS4 and last driver 7.1 and every thing working stable

regards
Yasser

[Kristian Lam]

Hi,

The PCI version of DeckLink Extreme will not work with more than 2 Gb of RAM, only the PCIe version.

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Thomas Madroszkiewicz]

Thanks for the answers. Really bad news although.

Is there any chance for some kind of firmware update to this card or I should change for something else.

[Yasser Amin]

any firmware update for Decklink cards is integrated in the driver

[Thomas Madroszkiewicz]

Great.

Just wondering why Blackmagic not mentioning this issue on their site.
They even write in Decklink minimum system requirements Windows Vista recommended 4GB ram.

I did not find any clue on this in the support section.

or maybe a red-white banner..
“FOLKS DON’T BUY THIS CARD IF YOU USE MORE THAN 2GB RAM”

Now I have two options throw away 2x1gb Kingston ECC RAMS.. or sell somehow Decklink Extreme PCI and buy PCIe version. 🙁

Anyway…thanks for the help everyone. 🙂