czar of bizarre
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ok yesterday i went and purchased a 40 gig 7200 rpm hard drive and a 128 stick of ram.i installed the ram yesterday. that placed me at 512mb of ram. so far so good.
so i drop the new hard drive in and i slave it. i partition it into 4 parts. so far so good. on one of the drives i install windows XP professional.............from here it gets bad.
i needed drivers for my UM-2 midi interface and my DIO2448 sound card.i found the drivers for the um-2. i had to go through HELL just to install the thing. all these crazy configurations but i finally got the box to work.
next i search for the sound card drivers. none for xp only 2000 and ME. so i download them both. i install the drivers for 2000 thinking that might work. it showed up and i see the card in the device section.
now here is where it gets tricky. i need to install a program so i could see if everything was working properly. i installed acid 3 pro because i was recently working in it.i installed acid 3 under xp.
here is where CHAOS happens.
i go to acid and i press play. guess what? it plays for 2 seconds and stops. so i tried to sync the midi box and my roland hard disk recorder. they locked up and acid chased the roland. all is well????? HELL NO! i could not make a SPDIF connection with the roland and the sound card.
so i go to acid and i try to make changes.
this is what i do:
i go to OPTIONS an click on the AUDIO tab. i select the windows wave driver and the DIO pops up below it. i make sure that the dio is selected in acid. still no digital connection.
at this point i go into xp and i go to my devices. i disable everything but the dio. that way i wont have conflicts (if i dont disable a certain device in 98 the dio will lock up and freeze the system). still didnt work. so i look at the properties of the dio and it says the device was working properly.
no it isnt. when i looked at the dio properties i saw that certain things were not checked. things like "use this mixer device" "dont use this device for midi" and one more item were not checked. so i made the LOGICAL choice to uncheck and check what i needed to because it was obvious that the sound card wasnt "turned on" basically.
i made my changes. it said the changes were saved and would not take effect until i restarted.....the thing is it didnt give me an option to restart like 98se does. so i restarted it.
when i booted back up i went through the process again. guess what? those things i checked earlier? were back to default. so i do it again and again and again and again. i rebooted like 8 times and it NEVER saved my settings. it also placed a check mark on something in my sound section. now my audio stuff is all screwed up for xp. its telling me i dont have a card at times and it even tells me to use #line what ever the hell it is as my recording/playback source. i even tried the settings i had on 98(which work) on xp. still didnt work........
is this a driver issue? or is this windows xp? why cant i save my settings that i made? should i reinstall the dio driver? its on my c drive.
thanx for any help or tips.
czar
ps i wouldnt mind using it if worked........back to 98.......
so i drop the new hard drive in and i slave it. i partition it into 4 parts. so far so good. on one of the drives i install windows XP professional.............from here it gets bad.
i needed drivers for my UM-2 midi interface and my DIO2448 sound card.i found the drivers for the um-2. i had to go through HELL just to install the thing. all these crazy configurations but i finally got the box to work.
next i search for the sound card drivers. none for xp only 2000 and ME. so i download them both. i install the drivers for 2000 thinking that might work. it showed up and i see the card in the device section.
now here is where it gets tricky. i need to install a program so i could see if everything was working properly. i installed acid 3 pro because i was recently working in it.i installed acid 3 under xp.
here is where CHAOS happens.
i go to acid and i press play. guess what? it plays for 2 seconds and stops. so i tried to sync the midi box and my roland hard disk recorder. they locked up and acid chased the roland. all is well????? HELL NO! i could not make a SPDIF connection with the roland and the sound card.
so i go to acid and i try to make changes.
this is what i do:
i go to OPTIONS an click on the AUDIO tab. i select the windows wave driver and the DIO pops up below it. i make sure that the dio is selected in acid. still no digital connection.
at this point i go into xp and i go to my devices. i disable everything but the dio. that way i wont have conflicts (if i dont disable a certain device in 98 the dio will lock up and freeze the system). still didnt work. so i look at the properties of the dio and it says the device was working properly.
no it isnt. when i looked at the dio properties i saw that certain things were not checked. things like "use this mixer device" "dont use this device for midi" and one more item were not checked. so i made the LOGICAL choice to uncheck and check what i needed to because it was obvious that the sound card wasnt "turned on" basically.
i made my changes. it said the changes were saved and would not take effect until i restarted.....the thing is it didnt give me an option to restart like 98se does. so i restarted it.
when i booted back up i went through the process again. guess what? those things i checked earlier? were back to default. so i do it again and again and again and again. i rebooted like 8 times and it NEVER saved my settings. it also placed a check mark on something in my sound section. now my audio stuff is all screwed up for xp. its telling me i dont have a card at times and it even tells me to use #line what ever the hell it is as my recording/playback source. i even tried the settings i had on 98(which work) on xp. still didnt work........
is this a driver issue? or is this windows xp? why cant i save my settings that i made? should i reinstall the dio driver? its on my c drive.
thanx for any help or tips.
czar
ps i wouldnt mind using it if worked........back to 98.......