Soundcard down from 8 to 5.

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Hello hello,
I've just bought a new comp after MONTHS of waiting for the old one to be fixed. I took my INCA88 from the old one (the card was working perfectly) & dropped it into the new. Downloaded the latest drivers & ran through the driver/hardware installation process to find that only 5 of the 8 channels are recognised.
Before I freak out etc. I planned to take out the card & reseat it then reinstall it & the drivers from a different source - but the weekend fell apart & I haven't managed to do anything yet so I've had time to reflect.
Again, before I freak out; is there anything else I should look at/for/be aware of given this is new problem (in a now almost 6 months of procrastination & stuff ups)?
The machine is a Dell Inspiron, dual core, 2 gig ram, 250gig HDD - it met my criteria - PCI card slot for the s/card, ULTRA quiet (at least so far) etc.
Any ideas?
 
I'd like to help, but I'm stumped. I can't think why you would lose three channels. Because five are going is suggestive of a couple of things:

1 The PC is recognising the INCA88 ok (otherwise I get the feeling that nothing would show up)

2 Something has happened between the time it work fine in the old and was inserted in the new. Have you tried it back in your old PC?

3 Notwithstanding the above, sometimes there are reasons why things don't work beyond the obvious. My old Emagic card worked fine on a very lowly PC running ME. I replaced the motherboard (the original being fried) and re-installed everything. Some days the system recognised the card, other days it didn't. Sometimes it recognised the card, but disabled the mouse! I put the card into an even older PC, and voila, everything just dandy! In then end I put it down to a fundamental incompatability between the card and the motherboard. I gave up in disgust and frustration, bought a totally new system with XP and a firepod instead. No problems since then! But this doesn't help you with your problem.
 
Ive emailed them, lets see if they respond back
 
Thanks fellows,
I'm worried that you might have the answer Geckozzed. The bummer is that I bought the particular model of comp JUST TO KEEP the INCA card. It's worked well in a Generic PIII, a 3 year old HP PIV & I was assuming it'd be just dandy in the new machine. Thanks for adding a realistic perspective. I'm part horder & have trouble moving away from things that work. It was only a year ago that I tossed my 1st 3 computers - an Apple 2C clone, a "portable" Commodore 64 & a Compaq integrated PC (with a massive 400+meg HDD).
I can live with 5 channels but after the drama I've had around computers this year & so much dicking about to keep the card I'm disappointed.
Pipeline - you are an excellent fellow - logic & direct communication - I'm more inclined to whine & dick around. Thanks mate.
 
Do you mean 5 outputs or 5 devices? My INCA88 is in windows 4 stereo devices + 1 SPDIF.
In cubase etc. it shows up like 8 audio channels.
 
rayc said:
Downloaded the latest drivers...
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Hmm. This is going to sound dumb, but maybe look for slightly older drivers?

I just ditched a M-Audio firewire410 (2 dedicated ins plus a stereo SPDIF) for a Presonus Firepod (8 dedicated ins plus a stereo SPDIF), and when I first installed the drivers, it read five inputs - four stereo inputs (that I could select left or right independantly) and the SPDIF. Updating the drivers cleaned it up nicely for me.

I'm wondering (much like kubeek) if you're having the opposite problem, that as this seems to be an older card, maybe the newest drivers don't play well with your system, and you're seeing them as stereo pairs. Maybe installing older drivers is the way to go...

Can you select L and R independently from four of those channels?
 
And does the level of the inuput channels show on the Inca panel?
 
Hello Folks,
Drew, reverting to the old driver - just had to find it on an old harddrive - did that thought BUT didn't get as far as installing it.
I finally had time this arvo to have another squiz at the new machine & old card prob.
I decided that the easiest & most optimistic thing to do was follow Kubeek's suggestion & sus out the input so I hooked up my four track and ran a signal from the 4 into 1 - 4 of the INCA card & then 5 - 8 of same.
ALL inputs read & routed the signal nicely.
A test recording went similarly.
HOPEFULLY all will be well!
Thanks for your interest & ideas.
Cheers
ray
 
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