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As I said way back. One should not have to work this hard to get a $900 sound interface operational. My new interface purchased 6 months ago to replace this POS MOTU has been nothing but inspirational. Works with Windows 7 64 native firewire drivers, no bs, no inf. editing, no camera drivers, right ...

Original post only mentioned the "no audio device in Windows" which I am familiar with. Did not mention no sound and since I do not own the same product as you, I will leave this post and hope someone can help you out.

Does your 896 come with CueMix? If so, you will need to configure i\o's and also the mixes. This may sound trivial, but if you can see the i\o's in your windows contol panel, then your PC sees the unit.

I too was having the dropouts, device not recognized, etc. on my brand new 828mk3 interface. Every reboot, the interface was not found. I had to uninstall the drivers, and reinstall using the very lengthy process reboot after reboot to get it back. After reading all the info on this board I decided ...

I have the 828mk3 and noticed the same thing when i went into Windows to check the driver. I have read that this is a normal event and that it will not show up in the tab for Windows. However you will be able to select your MOTO i\o 's in the primary fields for recording and playback in the Windows ...