Well my parrot ate my money order. Yeah... you have heard this excuse before. Actually it is true. Cockos must have received it by now. Sorry about that. Took it back thinking it was toast, but they said it was 'ok' to mail out...lots going on in my life, not doing music like I should be, been unable to get Motu MIDI working USB problems with the new AVID Delta combo driver did a few tests with REAPER, like the extracting of my NEVE Desk mixed quantegy gold CD with a misaligned studio label (from the old days as in SD-II and Quadras). REAPER extracted the two mixes perfectly. I have yet to instal
http://dbpoweramp.com/
My macs couldn't get it extracted without glitches. I have dual Delta 66s that sync under XP with the older m-audio driver but not the new all-in-one W-7 64 bit driver (with a MIDI driver that in XP turns off Motu MIDI) and of course no MIDI interface on the PCI card or breakout box. So I thought to dual boot with separate primary partitions, the two others are logical for drivers storage, etc... this was suggested to me by a windows guru. But it may be causing more problems then its worth, although I have a brand new Seagate also installed just to test, bios sees both, but XP sp-2 says no HD installed. Then this virus error MBR thing, which I deleted and replaced with a tool symantec recommended still the same error. XP 0x0000007b (0xF78D252, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
ANYWAY! Not selling anything... never was. Just concerned about EMI glitching live recording as it happened to me in 2000 with the first USB and their crappy mbox cable. RE: my first poorly worded post.
I am a songwriter, composer, polyrhythm nut, interest in special tunings, like many here trying to get away from Pro Tools which I have on my Mac and its error messages, lack of VSTi support, REX-2 and CPU usage. But it is on a PPC and best for editing and live recording... A wise longtime REAPER user suggested projects embedded within a project is coming back (then I can finally have 6 against 4 in one application and not hassle locking dual machines). Amen! Also the G-4 is a noisy beast with tiny whining fans!!! So I decided to support the Cockos Team go for the gold! (end of rant)
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Help Needed Badly!
SLIPSTREAM MATRIX SATA DRIVERS OR F6 using a less than 500 mBs USB thumb drive?
Stats: Asus P5QSE mobo with 4 gig (another 4 uninstalled as of yet). Quad Core Q6600 (2.4 gHz) XP pro 32, W-7 Pro 64 (uninstalled as of yet). I updated to the latest (flash bios tool) bios from ASUS using a Sandisk Cruzer no problem (which supposedly supports USB thumb drives) as floppies. My XP sp-2 disk cannot find the SATA drive when I change bios from IDE emulation to AHCI. I plan to dual boot with W-7 64 and need AHCI for eSata and SATA to record for both XP and W-7.
Is is possible, bios says yes, it tells me it will 'see' the F6 deal as a floppy with a Fat 16 thumb drive under 500 mBs, but I cannot seem to format it right, bios has three settings for sizes: 720K, 1.44M, or Floppy support off). Intel(4) as I have a Quad Core. The bios sees the SATA drives (the OS drive is formatted with four partitions... is this why the 0x000007b error comes up with blue screen? It installs ok in IDE emulation mode but I want full AHCI SATA 2 support.
Should I install W-7 first? However this particular guru told me to install XP first.
ICHI10 from intel is that the SATA raid controller that is listed for this mobo? I have downloaded so many F6 fixes, HP has one. Intel installs a raid PCI controller which may be good a some point for sample library. XP cannot boot once it is installed in IDE emulation mode, and now with a new SATA DVD drive I thought the fix was this. Not! Anyway I am not using IDE on the MOBO for anything at the moment but do have an IDE DVDR drive (CDR).
I do have an LVD Adaptec SCSI card and a 10 gig Cheetah, even older Adaptec SCSI, I could reformat from HFS to NTSF but it is noisy. Naturally I can't find my Seagate formatting CD. I notice XP sp-2 installs all of these SCSI drivers I can't imagine why no AHCI SATA drivers? Everyone seems to call them matrix drivers.
Here's one link I found:
http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache?...kKR2jKP.CHCg--
Can anyone find the time to post a reply so I can do this (head banging insert here) if I take it to a shop I will not learn myself how to reinstall, I know enough about DAWs to know one always has to reinstall the OS at one time or another.
I do have ISO buster and a working XP sp-3 laptop, and CD rom burner (firewire) attached to it. Should I slipstream the XP Pro SP-2 disk with the Intel matrix controllers? Can anyone point me in the right direction. Or is there a way to use the USB thumb drive as a floppy as the bios says (if it is under 500 mBs, mine is Fat 16 250 mBs) and I just need the correct formatting for it to be recognised as a floppy.
I do have in storage an old IDE floppy drive I'd have to rip out of a compaq buried deep under rubble. My wrists and back aren't what they use to be, any tips would be greatly appreciated. It is packed so tight back there in storage a worm couldn't ****!