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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Eskam" data-source="post: 65672" data-attributes="member: 2124">re: X32 DiscussionXP may be a significant part of your issues too. It&#039;s long in the tooth and almost no one is updating drivers for it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /><a href="http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/is-a-ti-firewire-controller-vital-for-your-audio-pc/" target="_blank">Is A Texas Instruments FireWire Controller Vital For Your Audio PC?</a>You may need to try some alternate drivers for those cards, or I have had good luck with SIIG - they are mentioned in that article and several others.&nbsp; There is no question FireWire is a second class citizen on Windows.&nbsp; Yup, you get flexibility but it sometimes comes with some trade offs.And no, in reading through the DAW forums I don&#039;t think you having problems with three interfaces is unusual.&nbsp; If you want to narrow it down quickly, as suggested by others, borrow a Mac and see if the X32 comes up - if so the issue is with your PC; if not then I would persue it with B as a possible HW fault.&nbsp; But I&#039;d wager a small sum it&#039;s a mix of your MB chipset, FW chipset, MB chipset driver, FW driver and XP.Have you flashed you MB BIOS to the latest version? Updated your chipset drivers? Tried the FW driver on the CD that came with the card AND then the latest on the vendors web site?&nbsp; (Sometimes the older ones work better due to the mix of stuff on YOUR system)&nbsp; Updated your video card driver? (Stuff you wouldn&#039;t think is related is often affected by wonky video card drivers - mainly printing issues but I have seen it all!)When you put the third party cards in did you disable the motherboard FW ports and uninstall the VIA driver?Those are all things you should try.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric Eskam, post: 65672, member: 2124"] re: X32 Discussion XP may be a significant part of your issues too. It's long in the tooth and almost no one is updating drivers for it :( [url=http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/is-a-ti-firewire-controller-vital-for-your-audio-pc/]Is A Texas Instruments FireWire Controller Vital For Your Audio PC?[/url] You may need to try some alternate drivers for those cards, or I have had good luck with SIIG - they are mentioned in that article and several others. There is no question FireWire is a second class citizen on Windows. Yup, you get flexibility but it sometimes comes with some trade offs. And no, in reading through the DAW forums I don't think you having problems with three interfaces is unusual. If you want to narrow it down quickly, as suggested by others, borrow a Mac and see if the X32 comes up - if so the issue is with your PC; if not then I would persue it with B as a possible HW fault. But I'd wager a small sum it's a mix of your MB chipset, FW chipset, MB chipset driver, FW driver and XP. Have you flashed you MB BIOS to the latest version? Updated your chipset drivers? Tried the FW driver on the CD that came with the card AND then the latest on the vendors web site? (Sometimes the older ones work better due to the mix of stuff on YOUR system) Updated your video card driver? (Stuff you wouldn't think is related is often affected by wonky video card drivers - mainly printing issues but I have seen it all!) When you put the third party cards in did you disable the motherboard FW ports and uninstall the VIA driver? Those are all things you should try. [/QUOTE]

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