FireWire Help Needed!

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During a mixing session last night - after running approx. 24 hours working fine, suddenly my TC Konnekt 8 soundcard stopped working. (It’s been working flawlessly for 4 months, since I got it.)

The soundcard is connected through the firewire port on my motherboard, where it recieves power and so on. It’s only connected with the firewire cable.

Nothing I tried worked. I even talked to TC support, who were so kind as to send me updated (beta) drivers, and some XP patches. But nothing helped. I uninstalled, re-installed, changed the FireWire cable, tried different FireWire port on the card, and so on, and so on…

I’m running XP home SP2 - Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard, Intel P4 3.0GHz, 5.1 GB Ram.

Today I went down to my local store and got a replacement interface… Now after uninstalling all the TC drivers and doing a registry clean up, checking the BIOS setup - just to be safe, re-installing from the driver cd that comes with the soundcard, rebooting and connecting the new Konnekt 8, I still have the same problem…

It turns on fine, but it never connects to the computer (It gets power from the computer). The TC Control Panel says “no device”…

Could it be my motherboard FireWire port that’s not working anymore? That seems hard to believe, when the interface recieves power… But…? This is my only FireWire device ever, so I don’t know.

I hope some of you guys can help me out.
Thanks

Stig

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It sounds like your port… if you have a spare usb to firewire laying around i’d recommend using that to test it (hehe… didn’t know stuff still used that cable).

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Hey Templarian.

Yeah, I’m thinking it’s my port aswell. So I’ve ordered a new PCI card with three FireWire slots on it. Hopefully my soundcard will work after that.

And thank you for the reply. :slight_smile:

Stig

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Why did you do that… purchasing a Firewire to USB would of been cheaper and quicker… most electronics stores have them.

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Okay - didn’t know that. I was under the impression that FireWire was faster than USB? These ports go up to 800MBIT. But USB is still faster?

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USB is 480mb, I believe… I was thinking of a 4 pin firewire (400mb).

[whisper]usb just works different than firewire and makes it better[/whisper]

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Okay… I’m not sure how it’d react to being hooked up to an USB port. I mean, it’s pretty high end stuff and it has a control app running on the computer for monitoring samplerate, latency, and direct monitoring… So I think I’d prefer not to try and make it work another way, than it’s supposed to. With my computer being a windows pc, something’s bound to go wrong! :wink: