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Live 4 and SP2?
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:05 am
by buckman
Is everything ok with SP2 and live?
thanks

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:22 pm
by rikhyray
yes
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:22 am
by jasefos
provided you're not using a Firewire based Audio interface.
WinXP SP2 restricts bandwidth of Firewire interfaces to 100 Mbit/sec.
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp2.htm
Does anyone know of a way to fix this yet?
Is it possible to replace the driver file for 1394 support with one from a live WinXP SP1 system ?
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:47 am
by pix
I´m having a problem installing a maxtor extenal fw HD in SP2, and maybe this is the problem.
Windows just can´t recognize the damn thing, and I can´t find no drivers for it. If this is true this is a major bug.
I just formatted it and upgraded the PC to SP2, and I have never had this problem before. Re-formatting it would be a pain but if this is not fixed FAST I have no choice...
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:18 am
by jasefos
If you'd applied SP2 after installing WinXP it should be listed under "Add Remove Programs" in Control Panel ...
I'm not 100% certain if removing it from here totally eradicates its effects however it's worth a shot.
Hopefully microsoft still make SP1 available for download from their site.
Let me know if removing SP2 in this way makes your FW drive come to life.
From what I can tell SP2 offers no signficant advantages for musicians (particularly if their studio computer systems are not connected to the web)..
I'm not bothering with SP2 for the moment.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:10 am
by myztmuzic
No problems here - and i got a fw-disk running just sweet - as well as mLAN,dsp-cards,usb2.. mLAN takes ALL the bandwidth available, so it can't restrict the bandwidth that much - It may reduce it with 100Mbit/sec (haven't checked), but thats max! - else my DAW wouldn't run - it's based on the mLAN-protocol & i have it all singing. For the record; i had to get a separate fw-card to run the fw-disk, due to the bandwithoverflow on the mLAN-fw-card..
100Mbit/sek? - no way!! mLAN needs around 400Mbit/sek to run at all! How can my DAW cope then..? - I mean, it DOES run ALL nice with sp2..
Good luck - these sp2-probs is all new to me, so i find it hard to believe it's sp2 causing this..
Regs,
Jo
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:20 pm
by pix
yep, same here.
futile panic attack yesterday...all I needed was to find the drivers on the web...
seems smooth now...
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:47 pm
by dpel
works fine
but SP1 still sounds better, a littler more orange

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:36 pm
by jasefos
pix wrote:yep, same here.
futile panic attack yesterday...all I needed was to find the drivers on the web...
seems smooth now...
Howdy Pix,
Good news ....
Which drivers from where ?
Perhaps you wouldn't mind posting a link ?
Were they specific drivers for your motherboard's integrated FW chipset (or dedicated PCI FW card) ?
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:16 pm
by pix
jasefos wrote:
Howdy Pix,
Good news ....
Which drivers from where ?
Perhaps you wouldn't mind posting a link ?
Were they specific drivers for your motherboard's integrated FW chipset (or dedicated PCI FW card) ?
No, it were the maxtor HD drivers.
You can find them here:
http://members.driverguide.com/driv...driverid=215851
But I think this isn't what you were looking for right?
Actually I'm using SP2 and I don't notice any problem with fw transfer speed.
at least so far...