Hi Guys,
I've been reading around the forums for the past few hours - not sure what to do. Thought it was me, and the card was simply dead after 4 years of flawless performance. Seems that it might not be so straight forward - situation is as follows:
Yesterday, my PCIx424 started acting crazy. Setup has been working fine for about 4 years - 424 and a 24IO.
Windows PC - Quad Core, 4 gb ram - Asus board. 2 partitions - Audio partition - XP32bit, and web partition Win7 64bit.
Yesterday, I was setting up my microlite MIDI box. Wasn't happening, and seemed to be causing conflicts with 24io, so i un-installed them both. Went to MOTU site, and found a new "all in one driver".
No sign of the other old ones, so I took it.
Installed with it, and it seemed to detect PCI424 fine - then did the MIDI.
I rebooted, and was getting conflicts on one or other device - never got both happily sitting together.
I had to remove the driver, and start again. Needed to do this about 3 or 4 times. Then, all of a sudden, on one reboot, the machine wouldn't boot up - Invalid Disk error.
Turns out, my boot tables had been re-written, and my big SATA drive had been changed to a non dynamic drive. Seems my boot sequence was re-written in the bios aswell. Nightmare fix - I have eventually got it back up and working after about 5 hours of messing about.
Now, system is working, but 424 is only being seen in XP as "PCI Device". Wont' load the driver at all. In Win7, same thing - "PCI Device".
I'm having an absolute fit here today now - was up to 5am trying to sort this last night. I'm about to try this bios clock change thing - see what happens.
Anyone any ideas ? I really don't want to shell out 300 euros for a new card to find it doesn't work ;-(
Cheers, Al.
424 Card Bust or not that simple ?
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Re: 424 Card Bust or not that simple ?
Hi Guys - Update:
I tried reinstalling and installing again yesterday - no luck.
I managed to find an old PCI424 driver from 2004 - so I tried it.
Managed to almost take the system down again. Gave me boot disk errors.
Once I pulled the card, it was OK again.
Awaiting Motu to respond to tech link at the moment.
I tried reinstalling and installing again yesterday - no luck.
I managed to find an old PCI424 driver from 2004 - so I tried it.
Managed to almost take the system down again. Gave me boot disk errors.
Once I pulled the card, it was OK again.
Awaiting Motu to respond to tech link at the moment.