Installing M-Audio Delta 1010lt PROBLEMS

[fred s.]

For some reason my PC (window XP) recognizes it as a floppy disk drive

I installed it and plugged in my mixer's outs into the analog ins and no sound registers on the computer, my computer does say it is installed and working properly.

HELP!

 

[scrubs]

Uninstall all the m-audio stuff. Download the very latest drivers from m-audio.com. Physically remove the card, then reinstall it. When prompted, install the new drivers and you should be good to go. You will probably have to do some tweaking in the M-audio control panel (should show up in your system tray) to make sure all the inputs/outputs are activated and routed correctly.

 

[fred s.]

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

 

[fred s.]

Uninstalled, reinstalled with the new drivers, everything shows at set up...but sill no sound registers when i plug into it...

Uninstall all the m-audio stuff. Download the very latest drivers from m-audio.com. Physically remove the card, then reinstall it. When prompted, install the new drivers and you should be good to go. You will probably have to do some tweaking in the M-audio control panel (should show up in your system tray) to make sure all the inputs/outputs are activated and routed correctly.

 

[Jim Y]

You should have a control panel icon on your taskbar. Look at the mixer page. Is the input channel meter showing anything? Are the faders turned up? Muted? What about the Master Fader?

On the control panel Patchpay/Router page, is the output 1/2 channel set for Wav Out 1/2 or Monitor Mix?

You might also find the Full Manual .pdf on the driver CD worth looking at!

 

[fred s.]

You should have a control panel icon on your taskbar. Look at the mixer page. Is the input channel meter showing anything? Are the faders turned up? Muted? What about the Master Fader?

On the control panel Patchpay/Router page, is the output 1/2 channel set for Wav Out 1/2 or Monitor Mix?

You might also find the Full Manual .pdf on the driver CD worth looking at!

The channel meter isn't showing anything. Faders turned up, and not muted. Master is up as well.

I had the patchbay/router 1/2 channel set at Wav out, but also tried Monitor Mix...still nothing.

I'm now getting an error type message when restarting or turning on my computer before windows loads...

"Floppy diskette seek failure.

Drive 1 not found serial ATA, SATA 2

Drive 2 not found Parallel ATA, PATA 1 (PRI IDE Slave)"

then gives the option of pressing f1 to continue or f2 to run the set up utility (I havent done that yet, since I'm afraid I might mess something up).

I don't have all that much computer tech knowledge.

I am a little confused why my computer recognizes it as a floppy drive. Even when I was installing the new drivers from m-audio.com it first installed as that. My computer doesnt have a floppy slot. I found no info in the manual about this.

I have no idea what this means, and am thinking I might have a defective unit? My Dell PC is only a few months old and has been working perfectly, so I'm assuming the Delta is the problem. Though when windows loads it shows the Delta 1010lt IS in fact working properly in the device manager.

 

[ocnor]

My Dell PC is only a few months old and has been working perfectly, so I'm assuming the Delta is the problem. Though when windows loads it shows the Delta 1010lt IS in fact working properly in the device manager.

Well there is your problem, you have a Dell computer.

 

[Creamyapples1]

Trying going into the bios and disabling the onboard sound. Uninstall the drivers, turn off Then pull the 1010 out, reboot, turn off, unplug, reinstall the 1010 in a different PCI slot, plug in, reboot, install the drivers again. If that doesn't work, turn the box off and unplug it, wait about a minute and pop out the little watch battery looking thing on the motherboard, wait another minute or so and put it back in. Then repeat the Uninstall the drivers, turn off Then pull the 1010 out, reboot, turn off, unplug, reinstall the 1010 in a different PCI slot, plug in, reboot, install the drivers again

 

[altitude909]

reinstall the 1010 in a different PCI slot, plug in, reboot, install the drivers again.

that should help. some computer have the IRQ's shared with certain PCI slots and it sounds like this may be the culprit

 

[fred s.]

I'll try that later today.

I dont have any other available pci slots....just 2, and the other is taken up by some telephone input type thing from what i remember (not at home right now).

I guess I can remove that since I have never used it, and try the Delta there.

If all this fails, can someone recommend a USB interface with at least 4 analog ins/outs?

Trying going into the bios and disabling the onboard sound. Uninstall the drivers, turn off Then pull the 1010 out, reboot, turn off, unplug, reinstall the 1010 in a different PCI slot, plug in, reboot, install the drivers again. If that doesn't work, turn the box off and unplug it, wait about a minute and pop out the little watch battery looking thing on the motherboard, wait another minute or so and put it back in. Then repeat the Uninstall the drivers, turn off Then pull the 1010 out, reboot, turn off, unplug, reinstall the 1010 in a different PCI slot, plug in, reboot, install the drivers again

 

[Jim Y]

Yes, some big name PC's have on-board audio that cannot live with a pci card. In some cases, the on-board automatically gets disabled (have seen that with Hewlet Packard), but perhaps not with a Dell. Shouldn't cause as serious a conflict as this though. If the Dell is still under warranty you might check with them if there's any reason a pci soundcard shouldn't be fitted or there is a particular slot.

Something could be wrong with the 1010LT of course. You didn't fit it with the machine just in shutdown or suspend/sleep did you? It needs to be actually switched off from the AC supply before you fit a card - there is still a standby supply present in the card slots otherwise!

What happens with the 1010LT removed? Windows XP has a system restore utility, you should be able to reset the machine to how it was on a date before you fitted the card.

 

[scrubs]

Did you go into your control panel for audio/sounds and make sure the Delta is selected as the default card for both recording and playback?

 

[fred s.]

Ok, some good news...I uninstalled/reinstalled everything. I now see movement in the M-audio Delta control panel's monitor mixer when playing back an audio file (i'm using n-track studio for recording/playback of .wav files). It is also recieving the audio signal from the XLR inputs of the Delta's analog ins, it registers!

But now there's a small problem, I can't get the other 6 (rca) analog inputs to register any signal. I really need those, because the main reason I even got the Delta is to transfer music from my analog 8-Track reel to reel recorder onto the computer.

I have my control pannel's "sounds and audio devices" set to use "M-Audio Delta 1010lt Multi" as the default device. I'm assuming that's the correct setting for recording anywhere from 4-8 simultanious tracks, right?

It also gives option for 1/2, 3/4...and so on, but I figured those are just for recording 2 tracks at once.

 

[altitude909]

I have my control pannel's "sounds and audio devices" set to use "M-Audio Delta 1010lt Multi" as the default device. I'm assuming that's the correct setting for recording anywhere from 4-8 simultanious tracks, right?

no. you wont be using that driver for your DAW so disregard it. U should be using your Delta ASIO drivers so your inputs will be set in music software

 

[fred s.]

Thanks for all the help and info guys! I finally configured it through n-track to record multiple tracks, and have it set up for ASIO. Everything sounds great from the soundcard. Not really sure waht the problem was the first 2 times I tried to install this thing, but I guess 3rd times a charm!

I am having a weird problem on n-track now where keeps saying it's an evaluation version all of a sudden (it's not, been using it for over a year) and keeps adding noise to every 20 or so seconds of recording.