Dell Laptop D630

[DLA]

Trying to attach MOTU Pre-8 to a Dell D630 laptop through the Firewire port and it either locks up the laptop or actually gice you the Blue Death Screen. Any suggestions

[jsr]

The first suggestion would be to tell people what kind of equipment, software and drivers you are using. Not everyone is psychic.

What is the firewire chip in the Dell D630? (look in Device Manager under "IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers").

What version of Windows are you using?

What version driver did you try?

(P.S. It's the Blue Screen Of Death or "BSOD". Best get used to it ).
(P.P.S. Just realised that tells me you're using XP ... or is the BSOD still a "feature" of Vista? )

[James Steele]

We Mac users have the SWOD (spinng wheel of death).

[jamie3]

hey dude.

im using a dell m65 laptop. having the exact same issue.

look in your device manager and see what the IEEE 1394 chipset is. if it is TI it should work.

mine just says "OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 ....." after a week i found out it was a Onyx2 chipset. needless to say motu doesnt work with it.

motu recommends TI chipsets and i purchased an express card which has a TI chipset and still no go. BSOD, lockups, mouse problems, etc.

i've been trying to fix this for over a week now and no luck. the only solution (for the time being) is to scrap the motu or get a new laptop.

[APADRecordings]

Several of us are looking at this same issue. It appears there is a definite problem with the Core 2 Duo computer architecture. The Dell D830 exhibits this same problem as do many other computers.

There have been many posts by others about running only this program or that program, disabling features, etc. None of this should be necessary. I have older computers here with single core processors that handle firewire recording just fine while running several other programs.

I have yet to see a Core 2 Duo machine (945, 946GZ chipsets, PCIe buss, SATA drives) that can stream audio, without interruption, over the 1394 buss, whether using the internal 1394 chipset, or a cardbus or Expresscard adapter (even with the TI chipset).

Unfortunately Firewire implementation is going backward at the speed of light. And with audio/video users being less than 1% of computer users I'm sure we're so far under the radar that Intel could care less.

[timizere]

i use a c2d e6400 on my desktop and p8400 on my dell laptop (which has a rioch fw chipset) with an 828mk3 and have had absolutely no problems streaming audio.

[Smokehouse]

I have a Dell D620 (also Core 2 Duo) and a PC Card with TI chipset. Ran perfectly for quite some time with 828 MK II and older drivers. Just bought MK III (very nice!) and installed updated drivers (not so nice!). BSOD, mouse hangs, general bad behavior. This thread has really bummed me out, because it seems like there's no solution. But there should be, because my OLD MOTU drives worked GREAT. So MOTU... what's the deal? This is fixable, and don't blame Windows.

[Smokehouse]

Update: Disabled internal ethernet adaptor (it was using INT 18 and so was the FireWire card). Things all good now! Ahh...