problem with audio interface card Quartet

[tetsuo2010]

well, i seem to be having problems with my Quartet card. i didn't realize that my on board was causing problems with my interface card, so it's disabled. (i had to go into bios to do it) now however my interface doesn't even seem to be able to keep it's drivers.

before i disabled my on board sound, the card seemed to run fiine, just never had audio becuase they were actually conflicting. i was running sonar 8 and it seemed to work fine, after a couple of restarts, (sometimes the program that comes with quartet freezes or kills communication when i use it, the gain and everything is lost all of a sudden) i am trying to get my live guitar to have sound in sonar and record.

one thing that seems to work everytime, is if i re-seat my qaurtet card on the motherboard. everytime i do that the drivers, and everything start working fine. after a while though either by what i may be doing, or just over time. the card just craps out, (there's a red light on the back which tells me it's working, and it goes out) i go to device manager, and it doesn't tell me right away that something is wrong, but after i re-scan it tells me it's installing drivers for my device, and then fails to install everytime. not sure how to fix this, i really hope there's a fix! i just started trying to get everything working for recording.

 

[TetraFish]

Just a wild guess but try this.

1) take out the card.
2) restart the computer. (just so it boots once without the card)
3) shutdown the computer.
4) re-install the card, maybe try a different pci slot.
5) restart.

If that doesn't work try turning on board sound back on and disable it in the device manager (Control Panel >-> Hardware and Sound >-> Device Manager).

It also may pay to look at the devices manager when you restart without the card installed (step #2) to make sure everything else is ok, look at anything with a yellow question mark.

 

[tetsuo2010]

OMG awesome! i don't know what happened but, it seems to be working *knocks on wood.

i mean i know enough about computers, but this problem didn't make sense. so i pulled the card out, like you said. booted up,...turned it off. put the card back, and one more boot up and it worked after that!?...i didn't put it in a new PCI slot however. so, i don't know if im even right but im thinking maybe there is something left behind/something still installed that was from my on board sound that was still killing my audio interface, some resources were somehow still tied to on board sound...that's really all i could think of.

i remember in an A+ class that one thing to try is different pci slots, but i don't think they ever told us why....just some kind of wired occurrence that some cards aren't happy in a certain slot, that's all. anyways, thanks for all the help....and my guitar sounds soo nice through it!