Question about X-Fi mode changes and relay clicks

Hello,
I've been having a heck of a time getting my new x-fi elite pro to work nicely in my computer (I have an MSI K8N neo4 platinum -- nforce4 chipset -- I'm aware of the issues). I kept having issues with the mode changer not working right about 50% of the time. Either it would stop recognizing my x-fi, or the SPI process would crash. In either case I could no longer change modes and the external box would stop working until a reboot. I tried many, many PCI slot swaps and driver reinstalls. Currently, things seem to be working ok (at least as far as mode switching goes...ASIO is another story) in that I can change modes without crashes...at least for the last half hour or so.
The only thing bothering me is that now, when I change modes, I almost never hear the relay click. Maybe out of 20 mode changes I get the click. Before, when the mode would successfully change, I'd always hear the click. Now, that's not the case. I'm wondering if the mode changing is really working correctly even though I'm not getting any crashes. So, my question to others is, when you change modes, do you always hear the relay click? I'm trying to get this all figured out before I decide to send it back. ASIO drivers work in creation mode, my cmss settings show up right in entertainment mode, etc...so maybe it's working right. I'm just not sure.
Thanks in advance.

Nevermind.... I rebooted for the heck of it. The relays clicked every time until I went into audio creation mode and actually used the ASIO drivers. Then, I tried to switch back to entertainment mode and SPI crashed on me again. I think it's about time to send this thing back, I've wasted about 2 hours trying to get this thing to work right.
Thanks anyway.

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If you have any ideas about this I'd like to hear what you know.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Lenny Wintfeld
ps - I don't believe web services, as full featured as it is, is a useful alternative. I'm moving 100's (in the future possibly 1000's) of megabytes back an forth for processing.

The local bind/rebind/unbind restriction is still there and it will always be there.
I would look at
(a) RMI/IIOP, where you use COSNaming as a registry, which doesn't have that registriction, and which also has location-independent object identifiers
(b) Jini.

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spajdy wrote:
You must have defined DGPAPROD.WORLD in tnsnames.oar on server where you DB is runnig.Hello there,
Thanks a lot for this nice solution. In fact I had to add the connection parameters into the tnsnames.ora file of the server on which the link was created (not the tnsnames.ora of my oracle client stored on the localhost)
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Kind Regards,
Dariyoosh
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