MOTU 828 MK3 "Flashing LED"...pls help

Moderator: James Steele

Forum rules
Discussion related to installation, configuration and use of MOTU hardware such as MIDI interfaces, audio interfaces, etc. for Mac OSX
Post Reply
thabutcha
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:46 pm
Primary DAW OS: Unspecified

MOTU 828 MK3 "Flashing LED"...pls help

Post by thabutcha »

Hello.

I turned off my 828 last night to clean some things up in the studio. After I started the 828 up all I'm getting is the main LED screen Flashing and the MOTU audio set-up (ver.driver 1.4.9) not recognizing the unit.

I had a Lacie external drive and a Duende mini on the firewire chain so I removed all of them and tried to reboot with know luck.

I have 5 different FW cables and tried all of those still with know luck.

I searched these forums and I'm surprised that no-one has had a similar issue with the 828 MK3. Ive tried everything including reloading the most recent drivers. I also have the most recent firmware on the device. ver. 1.0.6

My head hurts from trying to resolve this problem. I GIVE UP..



Is there any advice that someone can give me? I feel like I've tried everything.
Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Thanks in advance and HAPPY NEW YEAR.. :)
Last edited by thabutcha on Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
thabutcha
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:46 pm
Primary DAW OS: Unspecified

Re: MOTU MK3 "Flashing LED"...pls help

Post by thabutcha »

Forgot to add....

as I was playing with my FW chain. I isolated the problem to the 828 MK3's FW ports cause anything I put after the 828 is not recognized by my MAC MINI (ver 10.5.6)
User avatar
bkshepard
Posts: 1094
Joined: Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:01 pm
Primary DAW OS: MacOS
Location: Setúbal, Portugal
Contact:

Re: MOTU 828 MK3 "Flashing LED"...pls help

Post by bkshepard »

It sounds like the Firewire port has died on your 828. Do a search for "flashing LED" in the forum and you'll find several posts about interfaces having the same problem. It seems to be a common symptom on MOTU interfaces when the FW port goes bad.
-Brian

Mac M1 Ultra 20-core, OS 14.6.1, 128 GB RAM, DP 11.3.2, UA Apollo x6
Post Reply