Sound Card Conflicts

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Rick Ruskin
I recently purchased a used Frontier Designs Dakota card for digitally
shuttling audio between my computer and HD24 recorder. I also have a
Tascam PCI 822 card, a Frontier product made for Tascam, for doing the
same between computer and TDIF devices. Unfortunately, the cpu won't
let me install both at the same time. It crashes whenever I try to
install the 2nd device. Order doesn't matter. At some point in the
2nd install, it crashes big-time - blue screen of death and all that.
I'm running WinXP.

Any thoughts on how to fix this problem?
 
Harvey Gerst said:
Have you tried going to the Control Panel, disabling the Tascam PCI 822 card (at the Devices Option), then installing the new card?
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Thanks, Harvey. I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to disable the Dakota 1st because it's in and working properly. It isn't the easiest install I've ever done and when it screws up all previous setup files must be manually deleted.

Assuming this works, it probably means having to switch from 1 card to the other via device manager. Is that what you're thinking?
 
Harvey, your suggestion works. Like I assumed, only 1 card can be enabled at a time. Since I doubt the need for both at any one time, it's an inconvenience I can live with. Once again, muchas gracias.
 
Advice: put a shortcut on your desktop to the Audio settings window in the Control Panel.

I do that to switch which synth to use in my Soundblaster Audigy 2. Each onboard EMU synth has up to 96MB of Soundfonts loaded as a GM+GS MIDI.
The banks are loaded up with several soundfonts, addressed as more banks to certain instruments using Soundfont Bank Manager.

Back a few years ago (Win98SE), I used the shortcut to switch using all 16 MIDI channels played to the Softsynth, or 1-5 to my Roland D-70 (which doesn`t do GM, but accepts MIDI) and 6 to 16 to Softsynths.
 
johnnymegabyte said:
Advice: put a shortcut on your desktop to the Audio settings window in the Control Panel.
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1st thing I did once the problem was "solved." It is kinda dumb that Frontier would design devices that conflict with each other.
 
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