Hy

After many years of good functioning, I cannot get my Multiface to work anymore. I use my card for playback. I am on windows 7 and have a PCI Hammerfall DSP card.

Symptoms are : on PC startup, the red HOST led is not lighting at all (nor are any of the green leds). And I cannot play any of my audio applications: when I launch a music file, it just freezes at the beginning when I hit play. Even audio streaming from internet (for instance, a youtube video) will refuse to start.

I have normal software access to the hardware mixer and HDSP settings,  but with I/O Error.

When I delete the RME drivers on my PC, and leave the PCI card inside, the audio apps come back to normal functioning.
I updated the driver with the last version, but that didn't help. I tried to install the card on another PC, but that didn't make her work either and I found the same symptoms.

The HDSP PCI card is recognized by my PC, and it says that the drivers are correctly installed and functioning (wich is obviously not the case, since I have I/O Error on the HDSP settings) . But it should mean that the PCI card is at least not totally flawed.

On the other hand, I tried to power my multiface box through an independent power supply, and that turned the red Host light on. So I know the box is at least partly working.

So all in all, I suppose, either the HDSP PCI interface card or the Multiface box might have a problem ? Is there a way to diagnose wich might be broken ?

Thank you very much for your help
Nils