Installation guide

Installation Guide : PC Setup
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4 PC Setup
Motherboard Drivers and Utilities
Motherboard drivers should be updated to current versions.
Motherboard Utilities should NOT be installed.
BIOS Settings
Recommended BIOS Settings
The following features can create MassCore overloads (blinking red MSC).
Intel® Hyperthreading Technology (or Intel® HT Technology) is not supported by MassCore, this setting must be
disabled for the relevant CPUs. This setting is commonly found in Main Bios page, or under CPU configuration.
(see the motherboard manual for further details).
Intel® Speedstep Technology (also known as Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep), as well as CPU C State (or Intel® C-State)
features must be disabled in the BIOS.
Some Recent Intel boards have a global setting to disable those features known as Intel® Dynamic Power Technol-
ogy. If present this should be turned off. These settings are commonly found in BIOS Power options or CPU Config-
uration.
Overclocking is not supported.
Display Settings
Pyramix requires a minimum display resolution of 1280x1024 in 256 colors which MUST be set to small fonts
mode. In Windows 7 and Vista environments we strongly recommend turning OFF the Aero feature for maximum
performance.
Power Management
N.B. As with other Digital Audio Workstations and Non-Linear Editors, we recommend setting the PC to an Always
On Power management scheme. (In Windows XP: Start > Settings > Control Panel double-click Power Options.
Choose Always On from the Power Schemes drop down list.) This allows the monitor to be turned off by the sys-
tem but disables hard-disk spin down and Standby.
The Mykerinos and Mykerinos-X cards are not designed to support Standby modes.
Aero graphics
Windows 7 users should disable AERO themes for maximum performance.
Indexing
In the interests of better performance we recommend turning Indexing OFF for all Data drives in the system.
Other Applications
Like all Digital Audio Workstations, Pyramix works best when there are no other unnecessary applications or ser-
vices running.
Video and Pyramix on one PC
To ensure a very smooth system, (especially for seeking) when playing video with Pyramix on the same computer,
we recommend a quad core Processor PC with one or two CPUs, a dedicated hard drive for the video and Windows
7 Professional or XP Pro with SP3.