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Originally Posted by andrew caramia  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?
Hi Andrew, I can only sympathize with what you are going through at the moment - its almost the same as the situation I was in. Having researched purchasing a motherboard (Gigabyte ga-ep43-ds3) with the correct fw chipset it seems illogical that a pci firewire card with the same chipset should function perfectly when the onboard firewire was giving so many audio dropouts, I can only hope that the new fw card works for you as it did for me. Dont give up hope just yet! Regards, Bob |
update 4-
ok, i found a belkin pci card locally with ti TSB43AB23 chipset. the other belkin card and a siig are still on their way.
so far the dropouts are still there, but less frequent. again, another reformat and updates etc were installed to eliminate any other factors.
rang yamaha support and no one can give an answer, and have been put on hold for hours.
at this point i'm ready to go to yamaha myself and and tell them where to shove it.