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Try and get a motherboard with a TI firewire on it, it's probably the best option you get for low latency music production. example: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2995&ProductName=GA-MA78GM-US2H under specification it says...

Also Windows Media player sucks for running things through the soundcard, avoid using it.
You'd be better off running a DAW (ableton, reason, cubase) and setting the audio output to the soundcards ASIO driver which is much better then the waves (?) drivers that windows is using.

Okay here we go. Firstly I had an Asus F3sv that had a built in Ricoh firewire chipset (Open your device manager and look to see what firewire chipset you have) and with that I couldn't get the sound card to do anything at all, I sold that laptop and bought a new one a Toshiba satellite P300 with so...

Yeah sounds like an irq conflict. IRQ is like a pipeline to your processor, my laptop had my WiFi internet card, ultralite mk3 and graphics card all on IRQ 16 and I had occasional blue screens and drop outs/squeeks/pops. To check your IRQ settings open your device manager and right click on device m...

Thanks Reeper! I found a good deal on a SL500 on ebay and think I might buy it. However I was just looking at the driver downloads for the SL500 and there is a ricoh 4-in-1 driver there, so it appears that some SL500's have the Ricoh chipset aswell. I'll have to contact who ever i buy it off and hav...

Hi everyone, I have recently given up on running the Ultralite through the Ricoh firewire on my Asus f3sv laptop and sold it. I am now looking for a new laptop to purchase and was hoping that if you have a Ultralite MK3 running brilliantly on your laptop with XP SP3 that you could please tell me wha...

Hi everyone, Nothing i tried got the MOTU to work with my laptop at all. I ended up getting a response from MOTU and it told me what i knew already. I have since sold my laptop and am now looking for a new one. I will start a new post asking for recommendations for which new laptop to buy. Thanks fo...

Hi Motunation... if anyone has the time to read this and is able to provide some help It would be much appreciated. Okay so i know that there is probably nothing that can be done because a printer company (Ricoh) is responsible for the heap of junk firewire chipset that is in my laptop, and i have b...