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Originally Posted by andrew caramia  update 2-
theres a card on its way from inta audio. boy what a hassle it is to get this thing working.
firstly, i managed to source a firewire card locally with a ti chipset (supposedly backwards compatable), however the sunix 800 1394b tsb81ba3 chip wasnt picked up at all, no audio and 'data overflow' warnings....
so, another purchase of a card with the via chipset was bought on a hunch while i'm waiting for the belkin card to arrive from the u.k. this produced a lot less dropouts but is still unstable.
i'm really surprised yamaha didnt provide more warnings about the firewire situation with this board, if the belkin card works its a warning to everyone who wants to purchase this product to be aware that a compatable card may be hard to come by and it has to be very specific.
im even suggesting yamaha should provide a card with the product or have some available as an accessory on their website.... jeez for them it would amount to 2 bucks a card to produce and everone would be happy.
but besides all this, the n12 appears to be a fantastic product and very proffessional considering what it can do. a godsend for those that take pride in audio production, and with the right no-how, combined with decent outboard, highly underrated in my opinion. |
update 3-
i suspected my mobo might be faulty. to eliminate all possibilities, i replaced it with a gigabyte ep45-ud3... with firewire ti 400 chip onboard. also replaced the hdrive to be sure, and xp pro reformat. power supply also replaced. all the new drivers and updates were completed successfully.
first the good news- pops and clicks are gone.
the bad- still the occasional dropout! sample rates and buffer sizes were played with. general windows stuff like playing back cds and browsing the same.
all i can do now is wait for the belkin ti fw card to arrive... if it made a difference i'd be pretty surprised, as the onboard fw shouldnt be much different?
any ideas guys?
xp pro sp3
4gig ram ddr2
nvidea 6200gt silent
1t samsung hd
3.2ghz 775cpu
corsair 620w power supply
liteon dvd/cd
ua uad-1e