8A Firmware and Driver update- Now cant load mixer
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:40 am
hi I updated the firmware of my 8A via the mixer to 1.34+217 and then updated the Drivers to 4.0.7.6926 yesterday on my Win7 SP1 x64.
since then the MOTU Discovery can "see" the 8A, it comes up as "Connected via USB" and the pretty picture of the unit, but then when I try and open the mixer "Open Pro Audio Control" I get the scrolling "thinking about it" pulse in the browser window but it never gets to mixer. I left it overnight and in the morning it was still pulsing/scrolling. No mixer.
Ive done the PC reboot, power cycle of 8A, Uninstall / reinstall drivers and still the same. Ive tried everything now for about 6 hours except standing on my head.
I even tried rolling back to the previous drivers and its still the same. So now I suspect faulty firmware.
I also tried a "factory default" on the unit. no diff.
So the new "MOTU Discovery has a tab called "Firmware updater". I loaded in the previous firmware 1.3.2+102 and tried updating it. The 8A goes into "Entering Firmware update mode"...and then .."Update Mode Looking for network" and then it changes to "...169.254.254.171" and the Discovery screen shows "verifying update" and then keeps showing "Waiting for Device to Reboot into Update mode" and the two never really talk. Firmware does not get updated. Basically the new firmware has broken something in the Ethernet communication side from what i can see...
Windows firewall is off. It always was off. The PC is not connected to the net. And the Mixer worked fine just yesterday before the update.
Has anyone else experienced problems with the latest firmware? I'm scratching my head now.
Starting to stress now I have a session coming up soon.
many thanks,
Blackout.
since then the MOTU Discovery can "see" the 8A, it comes up as "Connected via USB" and the pretty picture of the unit, but then when I try and open the mixer "Open Pro Audio Control" I get the scrolling "thinking about it" pulse in the browser window but it never gets to mixer. I left it overnight and in the morning it was still pulsing/scrolling. No mixer.
Ive done the PC reboot, power cycle of 8A, Uninstall / reinstall drivers and still the same. Ive tried everything now for about 6 hours except standing on my head.
I even tried rolling back to the previous drivers and its still the same. So now I suspect faulty firmware.
I also tried a "factory default" on the unit. no diff.
So the new "MOTU Discovery has a tab called "Firmware updater". I loaded in the previous firmware 1.3.2+102 and tried updating it. The 8A goes into "Entering Firmware update mode"...and then .."Update Mode Looking for network" and then it changes to "...169.254.254.171" and the Discovery screen shows "verifying update" and then keeps showing "Waiting for Device to Reboot into Update mode" and the two never really talk. Firmware does not get updated. Basically the new firmware has broken something in the Ethernet communication side from what i can see...
Windows firewall is off. It always was off. The PC is not connected to the net. And the Mixer worked fine just yesterday before the update.
Has anyone else experienced problems with the latest firmware? I'm scratching my head now.
Starting to stress now I have a session coming up soon.
many thanks,
Blackout.