Wave Driver with Digi001

Anybody had weird problems with the Wave Driver for the Digi001 on an XP machine? I am just trying to eliminate possible problems on a new Dual AMD Athlon with XP installed system. There has been intermittent problems, and uninstalling the Wave Driver has cut those down a bit. In fact, ANY insights people might have about running the Digi001 and PT LE on an XP box would be most appreciated. Ed

It's worked like a charm for me. Just follow the instructions and you should be fine. Good luck-

SONUSMAN,i had the same problem. once i re installed everything fresh.a complete windows and protools re install.than it worked fine,by following the wave driver directions.

Been there, done all that. Everything works fine UNTIL I reboot again. Get error messages, DEA errors, etc...after reboot. Funny though, it doesn't always do that. But the second of third reboot it ALWAYS disappears. The wave driver is till shown in Device Manager, but no app's can open and show a error message saying Direct I/O something or another cannot be found. It all links back to that driver, and goes away when I uninstall the driver. I have even tried just not installing that driver and just using PT LE 5.3. Same thing, after a couple of reboots, I started getting DEA error when opening PT. When I uninstall PT LE, all the problems go away. Frustrating. I spend 2 days doing OS installs trying to get to the bottom of this. It just all links back to the digi001 card and PT LE. The computer is in spec with that "ultimate PC" recommendation in EQ mag a few months ago. Again, without PT installed in any way, the system is stable and the Delta 1010 and Nuendo and Sonar all work just fine and dandy. Possibly a bad digi001 card? Possibly a mobo that isn't detecting it in the PCI slot properly? I have tried moving the digi001 to another PCI slot but the same problem persists. I am no dummy on computers. I have built and optimized several DAWS and am generally pretty good at tracking down the inevitable problems that are associated with doing so. This one has me scratching my head though because of the intermittent nature of it, and how no updates seem to make a difference. The studio wants to have PT LE available, more for those customers that want "pro tools" more than anything. When it was running, I haven't heard PT LE do anything to audio that I cannot do just as well in Nuendo and/or Sonar, but you know how to stupid public can be. If Linkinsmackbeckgarbage used PT (usually just for editing...) then THEY need to use it, and by not having PT, the studio doesn't appear to be "capable" of producing good songs. Sigh...... Any other ideas? Ed

yup, yes, indeed! I learned long ago to follow installation instructions. Asus mobo (whatever that dual Athlon one is...sorry, am not at that computer right now and am not going to drive the 30 miles to see...:)AMD chipset Dual AthlonX 2000's. Two Samsung sticks of DDR PC2100 registered RAM Let's see...PCI's. RealTek Ethernet card (for transfers from Alesis HD24) Some dumb USB 2.0 card (because the stupid mobo didn't come with USB on it!!! it kills me to have to use a PCI slot for USB! but we need the USB for the SAC 2.2 control interface) Delta 1010 Firewire card (whatever that really common one is..I have seen it all over the place, even in Sony Viao's....) Digi001 card. There is a Radeon 64MB AGP vid card installed too. The order of the cards is: USB Ethernet Delta digi001 firewire

Hi again- Dual processor mother boards are not supported by Digidesign, so it's going to be pretty much you and the DUC for support. DAE errors often have to do with installs gone bad, but you've also got the complication of a second audio card and a pretty full PCI config. Have you checked your IRQ's for conflict? Did you ever have PTFree or 5.1 on your system? First thing I would try is to remove all traces of PTLE and wave drivers. (Idealy I would uninstall the 1010, too...) Uninstall PT with Add Remove Hardware. Instructions for removing the wave driver are on page 4 of the WaveDriver Readme .pdf. Shut down, remove the card and reboot without it. Shut down again, put the card back in and do a fresh reinstall of 5.3.1. Good luck-

Yeah. I also seen that the VIA chipset is recommended too. I am actually sort of surprised that dual CPU's are not supported. And no secret that the VIA chipset has had it's share of problems, but to recommend it over the AMD chipset in a hardware config? Hmmmmmmmm....strange. But, I am no expert on those things. I just read a lot and find this whole PT experience on XP to be a bit strange. I have tried 3 different full installs of the OS to solve this. Trying different times of installing the software and drivers, etc...It all winds up the same. Errors pop up. Oh well. Maybe the mighty PT driver is not quite ready for XP yet. I mean, my setup is fairly "real world". I seen this same type of thing happen with other cards. At some point they will get the driver/software right. I am not the only person experiencing problems like this with this software/hardware setup. Ed