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M-Audio Firewire Audiophile looses connection!
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ThiagoNAKA
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Posted : Nov 2, 2007 18:43
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On 2007-11-02 10:37, thail wrote:
Hi,
Umm. This problem still exists.
It seems, that the device is working properly when my computer is not connected to the Internet. When my computer is online the problem appears again after a few minutes.
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Maybe u should try making music without internet! 
Btw, I have a M Audio FW 410, and I had many many issues using with my HP Laptop. I only managed to fix it when I installed the newest driver, wich was a x64 OS designed driver... And the funny thing is that I´m still using the old Windows XP Pro SP2...
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bandarlog
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Posted : Nov 2, 2007 18:54
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On 2007-11-02 17:33, thail wrote:
Hey, thanks for your help, but it your advise didn't help. 
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You know how this will end? You buying a new soundcard... There is no solution, nobody ever found one. As I said from my experience: tried everything, on many systems, had help from IT-guys... invested a lot of time and now it's still in my closet, waiting to be bought by a mac user (they're fine with it). I won't sell it to any pc user because I'm not an asshole.
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vipal
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Posted : Nov 5, 2007 21:02
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on the other hand.. i am using this soundcard for
3 years now in different climates/travelled with it and it never gave any problem..
but maybe thats karma because with another very expensive card i got sooo much troubles. and yes like sms says, dont put internet on your production computer... plugs calling home etc.... |
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zafer
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Posted : Nov 6, 2007 10:23
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sometimes pc and/or soundcard are affected by electricity peaks in the supply net: if your home electricity network cabling isn't that good is enough to switch on/off a lamp or plug/unplug some device anywhere in the room or home to produce a peak in the electricity supply net that will make your connection between card and pc fail.
best solution is to buy a ups filtering device (good ones starting from 150 euro) it will also clean your hole soundmachine from residual electrical dirt improve your equipments lifetime
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Jerry
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Posted : Nov 6, 2007 16:37
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it might help if you use the 'big' firewire connection in contrary to the small one. As people said before, the small one is very sensitive to touches and might disconnect the soundcard really fast.
I've had this thing for a year now and as long as i don't poke the connection in my laptop it never bugs. Apart from that it's really not a soundcard issue but a windows issue.. on a mac if it disconnects somehow it will just reconnect without problems. If on a pc your hardware went into powersaving mode your soundcard will not come back.
Possibly you could try running vista. I have no experience with vista at all but it might be worth a shot.
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bandarlog
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Posted : Nov 6, 2007 20:48
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I'm frustrated in his place. All the tips you mention were mentioned to me and I repeat, in my case; NOTHING helped.
An overview of what I did with that evil soundcard:
- bus powered, not bus powered (4 & 6 FW cables)
- different locations, different powersupply
- laptop, desktops
- SP1 & 2
- new and old drivers
- all the system tweaks and tips for firewire you can imagine
- disabeling practically everything but the soundcard.
- searching every thread that mentioned the FW AP using different search engines & applying every tip they mentioned.
+ every combination possible of the above mentioned (I'm not kidding).
Nothing worked, it kept on disconnecting.
And now I'm in a mental institution, I think I hear a guard coming, gotta go...
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thail
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Posted : Nov 7, 2007 08:37
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Ok, i some people in the audioforums.com forum have fixed this problem by installing some old SP1 drivers.
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp2.htm
Well, i don't have all those old driver files on my hard-drive, so i wonder if it's possible to downgrade SP2 to SP1? My OS is preloaded with SP2.
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Jerry
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Posted : Nov 8, 2007 12:16
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You can't 'downgrade' to sp1, you can only upgrade to it from scratch. I won't go into details of piracy but there are ways to get a plain old windows xp and in fact as long as you have 1 version (be it with integrated sp2 or not) it's not piracy in my opinion. Whether you want to walk that path depends on the country you live in and your own personal thoughts about it i guess.
I do think however that totally downgrading might not be the best idea.. Just downgrade some of the stuff to sp1 compatibility and leave all the other fixes sp2 brings in their place.
I guess you can be unlucky or so, perhaps there is some faulty hardware out there. Not sure if there's firmware in the soundcard and whether mine differs from yours or if you can up or downgrade it but that might be one of the solutions apart from all what was already mentioned before. Playing around with firmware might be dangerous tho so be warned.
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thail
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Posted : Nov 8, 2007 13:17
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On 2007-11-08 12:16, Jerry wrote:
You can't 'downgrade' to sp1, you can only upgrade to it from scratch. I won't go into details of piracy but there are ways to get a plain old windows xp and in fact as long as you have 1 version (be it with integrated sp2 or not) it's not piracy in my opinion. Whether you want to walk that path depends on the country you live in and your own personal thoughts about it i guess.
I do think however that totally downgrading might not be the best idea.. Just downgrade some of the stuff to sp1 compatibility and leave all the other fixes sp2 brings in their place.
I guess you can be unlucky or so, perhaps there is some faulty hardware out there. Not sure if there's firmware in the soundcard and whether mine differs from yours or if you can up or downgrade it but that might be one of the solutions apart from all what was already mentioned before. Playing around with firmware might be dangerous tho so be warned.
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True, but i cant find these couple of old SP1 driver files anywhere. |
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thail
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Posted : Nov 8, 2007 16:01
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On 2007-11-06 20:48, bandarlog wrote:
I'm frustrated in his place. All the tips you mention were mentioned to me and I repeat, in my case; NOTHING helped.
An overview of what I did with that evil soundcard:
- bus powered, not bus powered (4 & 6 FW cables)
- different locations, different powersupply
- laptop, desktops
- SP1 & 2
- new and old drivers
- all the system tweaks and tips for firewire you can imagine
- disabeling practically everything but the soundcard.
- searching every thread that mentioned the FW AP using different search engines & applying every tip they mentioned.
+ every combination possible of the above mentioned (I'm not kidding).
Nothing worked, it kept on disconnecting.
And now I'm in a mental institution, I think I hear a guard coming, gotta go...
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Im sorry for you
But my Firewire Audiophile has been running for 3 hours now(usually under 10 minutes).
Installed these fixes
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2091337-a0ea-4b34-b19f-b6ec04c1f2d2&DisplayLang=en
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329256
Thanks for everyones help anyways! |
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