Deactivate After Effects CS5 Matrox MXO2 video preview

Hi.
After installing Matrox's MXO2 Mini card and drivers in my computer I noticed that switching from any app to AE CS5 was exaggeratedly slow. AE just took ages to respond (like 10 or more seconds every time I switch to it!!!) and made impossible to work fluently. After some time I realised it was because of the preview through MXO2 Mini from AE and I deactivated it in the preferences panel (I checked the "computer monitor only" preview option), but even that AE wouldn't release the MXO2 Mini and kept behaving in the same way. So finally I tried uninstalling the MXO2 Mini drivers and, VOILA!! AE respond as it should when switching to it but, of course, I can't use my brand new MXO2 Mini.
Has anyone experienced the same problem? Any solution? Does anyone know how to EFFECTIVELY deactivate the preview through the MXO Mini from AE CS5?
Thank you very much in advance.
Mac Pro 2010
2 X 2.4Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
ATI Radeon HD 5770
20Gb RAM
Mac OS X 10.6.4
Adobe Master Collection CS5
Matrox MXO2 Mini
Thanks

After some more investigation and reinstalling Matrox's software several times, I discovered the source of the problem. If the computer goes to sleep power supply to the mxo2 is cut and when the system wakes up again the card won't work until you shut down completely the computer and restart it again (except when the system goes to sleep with AE open). That also happens when you change the output from AE to any other option but Matrox's. By now the solution is to avoid that the computer goes to sleep, but I don't think that is good for the machine is it?

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