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I haven't seen any audio device that is using the 800 yet - they all appear to be 400. The problem with running 100 may still be bandwidth - Firewire/USB overhead is pretty high - but it appeared to be (with my Utralite anyway) that the port and device need to be running at the same rate and the Ult...

The symptom that proves it's not the hotfix is that the system works properly from the C drive. You just run out of bandwidth when the disk and the audio device are trying to share the same interface. One thing that may help is disabling IEEE1394 networking - although this might, depending on config...

If the hotfix were the issue it probably would not work at all. Whithout the hotfix, the firewire runs at 100 MBPS and it is just too slow for just about anything. If you have an external hard disk on the same network (firewire or USB) you may experience hiccups. I have had success running firewire ...

You are amplifying my point. A "cheap" computer - ASUS intigrated motherboard, Intel P4 processor - may be just the ticket as a DAW machine. Add a BUNCH of RAM and HD space and it should be fine (No - a PII-300 won't cut it - I diferentiate between cheap and old - cheap will work, old will...

Cheap computers are not the problem - pretty much a computer is a computer. The hardware is literally made in the same factory no matter who's name is on the box with few exceptions. The problems are more with the big name expensive machines - they are the ones that are big enough to get their own &...

The knobs are OK. I have been bashing my unit around in my laptop case with fifty pounds of cables and mics and god knows what else. If it were mounted in a rack or sitting on my desk it would have been fine...

I've had nothing but good luck with MOTU support. If you think MOTU is bad, try M-Audio - they have a support portal that never seemed to work - all I could ever do was add a new issue, never check on an existing one. There were some troubles on start-up that they couldn't answer but then again RME,...

I had trouble even after the MS fix. I had to back-rev the driver (OHCI1394.SYS) then UPDATE THE BIOS. The problems that don't turn out to be just driver related are almost certainly BIOS.

Clicks and Pops relate to services running or virus/trojan issues.

Don't surf the web. Don't run ANYTHING else. All the problems described are probably related to virus/trojan problems or other Windows "services".

You can't go to the porn sites today and expect to run clean audio tonight...

I went to coolgear.com (on 03-05-2007) and bought the 2P-PCMCIA-F2 two-port cardbus PCMCIA 1394 Firewire Adapter. It has the TI chipset and works great with my Toshiba 105 (1.7 GHz Celeron M). It was also only $19.99. I ran into the Rice Crispy syndrome too (running a Sound Blaster External USB) but...

I had this problem. I tried everything until it worked. The solution? Do the SP2 to SP1 driver backrev then if it still does not work, UPDATE YOUR BIOS! The BIOS supplied with fairly new machines is set up for the crappy SP2 driver and WILL NOT RUN AT S400. AT ALL. NOT EVEN A LITTLE. Go to http://ww...