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I'm using a Dell Inspiron E1505 with a Ricoh Chipset onboard Firewire 4 pin. It seems to work well for recording medium projects with about 6 audio tracks and 3 MIDI tracks with VST instruments in 24 bit at either 44.1 or 48KHz. When I try to work in 96K I start to expierience more dropouts and the ...

A drastic solution would be to back up all your files and reformat your hard drive, reload the operating system and all your software. This is a pain and takes a few hours, but then you have a clean slate and things should be operating the best after a fresh reformat. This is time consuming if you h...

Thanks for the updates. Keep us posted on how that Ricoh chip is doing. I'm also using the Ricoh chip in my dell, so I'll let you know how it continues to work for me also. So far it seems ok with 3 or 4 audio tracks and 2 MIDI tracks with 2 virtual instruments... We'll see how long it lasts.

I upgraded the firmware to the 1.15 and my ultralite behavior was far worse than the 1.10. It would lock up almost 90% of the times it was powered on when connected to the computer. I also expierienced more dropouts after I finally got it talking with the computer without locking itself up. I re-loa...

When I boot up or shut down my Dell Inspiron E1505 with the SIIG firewire expresscard in the slot, it locks things up.. won't power down, won't boot up. I have used the firewire expresscard with two other firewire interfaces without any problems though, I just plug in the card after I boot up and un...

Keep us posted if you find out any way to use a different driver for the Ricoh chipset firewire onboard. I'd also like to hear if MOTU has a response to the expresscard lockup issues. As of now I can only use the Ricoh onboard firewire with my Dell Inspiron because the Expresscard locks up the compu...

I am using an Ultralite with a Dell Inspiron E1505 that uses the Ricoh chipset on board 4-pin firewire. It is an interesting and confusing thing... This combination is working fine so far. I have recorded a few projects with several Audio and MIDI tracks and have not experienced any problems. That i...

I am having the same problem with the ultralite. I have loaded the drivers ahead of time, reboot, then plug in the ultralite. When it gets to the audio wave driver it locks up everything and I'm forced to do a power down restart. I haven't yet figured out how to get around this, so as of now I can't...

Please help. I am installing my new ultralite and have tried repeated times with the same outcome. Each time I install the drivers (have tried newest from the website, as well as the CD included in the box) after installing the drivers, I restart the computer and connect the ultralite. I starts inst...