Aardvark Windows XP driver information page

Q10 Skin for Sonic Foundry Siren

The screen shots below show the performance of an Aardvark Direct Pro Q10 installed on a PC with Gigabyte 8IHXP motherboard, 512mb PC1066 RDRAM, and P4 2.26b CPU. Notice the poor RAM bandwidth benchmark, as well as the poor PCI bus efficiency. Other symptoms include %100 CPU utilization upon boot which causes the OS to freeze for several seconds. Another issue worth noting, independent of motherboard/chipset compatibility, is that Aardvark's control panel application utility can opened/closed only 33 times consecutively before it disables the service, requiring a reboot, or restarting the service from the Windows XP services manager snap-in. Now if that was the extent of the problems with this sound card, I wouldn't be too concerned, however the real problem:> is the random, frequent service dropouts, again requiring the service to be restarted. You can download and run this file if you're experiencing the problem to restart the Aardvark service without rebooting, or navigating to the Services snap-in. I have found that the Q10 performs similarly on many newer motherboards.

Recent motherboards tested:


Gigabyte 8iHXP & 8iHXP 2
Gigabyte 7VRXP
Abit TH7II
ASUS A7N266

(note: I have yet to find a newer motherboard/chipset not plagued by the above problems)

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