[Jay Bloomfield]

Paul,

I tried to respond directly to your post, but somehow, it ended up in a new thread entitled, “take a deep breath”.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/872860

[Jay Bloomfield]

PP CS3 BMD capture offers the same two codec options as the standalone BMD Capture software.

[Jay Bloomfield]

Again, I can’t say I know much about the X58 mobos, but I have read that the Intel version is the “simplest”, and also the most stable. I have ASUS mobos in all my PCs and they are great, but, they have a lot of extra “bells and whistles”, mostly for gamers who like to overclock their machines.

But getting back to your question. I answered a similar post in a different thread. Does the BIOS have a setting for “Memory Hole” or “Memory Remapping”? Each hardware device uses memory addresses, which Windows assigns in the 3GB to 4GB range. On my Vista x64 PC, the Intensity Pro uses two small pieces of memory, roughly at the 3.7GB address location.

Normally, the use of the 3-4GB address space for devices doesn’t pose a problem, as long as you have < 3GB of RAM. The BIOS remapping options map the 3-4GB memory space to above 4GB. I doubt that this is your problem but you never know.

[Jay Bloomfield]

Not very many of us have Core i7 systems, so I could be way off here. Anyway, your CMOS setup should have settings that control the PCIe slots. On most recent Intel mobos, the BIOS options look like:

Primary Video Adapter
• Ext PCI Express Graphics
• Ext PCI
• Auto

Allows selecting a specific video controller as the display
device that will be active when the system boots.
Secondary Video Adapter
• Ext PCI Express Graphics
• Ext PCI
• Auto

Allows selecting a specific video controller as the secondary
display device.

Can you get into the CMOS setup with the video card in the correct (PCIe x16) slot and the Intensity in the PCIe 1x slot? There may be other PCIe options, but if a small amount of “tinkering” doesn’t work, you probably should contact Intel directly.

[Jay Bloomfield]

I’m assuming that a) the system boots fine without the Intensity Pro and that b) you also tried switching the PCIe slots between the video card and the Intensity Pro. Sometimes, the primary video card must be in a certain slot and some BIOSes have options to override that, but not all do.

These small form factor PCs, usually have a modest power supply (<=450W), so it's remotely possible that you are close to the capacity of the PSU, especially if you have all the memory slots full. How much RAM do you have? One possibility would be to try to boot the system with only one RAM stick and then keep adding RAM and rebooting until it doesn't boot. The other possibility (even more remote) is to look in the BIOS, with the Intensity Pro out of the system and see if you have an option that looks like "Memory Remap" or "Memory Hole". If this option is turned off, the BIOS and the OS uses the address spaces between 3 & 4 GB for system device addresses and OS will try to use it for software also, creating conflicts. If you don't have that much RAM, it's not a problem. I really doubt that that is your problem but you never know. The only other thing that I can suggest is to try to install the Intensity Pro in another computer, just to see if it works at all.