1 Topic by Yllet (edited by Yllet 2011-06-13 13:24:52)

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Topic: FF400 suddenly mono

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Today my FF400 suddenly stopped working during a project using Cubase 5. The ff rebooted it self, then there was audio only from the right speaker. Another time the sound distorted when playing back audio files from foobar2000. Tried 2 different firewire cables: Belking, and original.

I had some trouble with my ff on my last computer as well, suddenly stopped working for no reason, only reboot helped. So I got my self a new computer...

I have latest drivers, and firmwire. My setup is like this:

(Im running bus powered)

Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3
i5 2500+
Syba firewire card (TI tsb82aa2) - Texas instruments
8 gb ram
ATI 4850 - 512mb
Windows 7 64 - Home
2x 7200 rpm hard drives
1x dvd
1x uad-2 duo
560 w PSU

Following tweaks made:

- Changed the firewire driver to legacy
- Processor Scheduling set to background (this makes a huge difference)
- Turning of UAC
- Disabling the Aero theme
- Disabling audio playback in windows thrue the FF
- Disabling indexing options

Turned off the services like:
- Offline files
- Windows search
- Computerbrowser
- IP Helper
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- Application Experience
- Remote registry
- SNMP Trap
- Netlogon
- Windows remote management
- Remote Desktop Services Usermode...
- Tablet PC Input Service
- Certificate Propagation
- Windows Media PLayer Network Sharing...
- BranchCache
- Smart Card
- WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
- Portable Device Enumerator Service
- Application Management
- Smart card Removal Policy
- Fax
- Webclient" *

My last computer, that had the same problem was quad 6600, win xp... Must be something wrong with my FF then? I also tried 2 different firewire cables.

Help pls sad

/Jon

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Re: FF400 suddenly mono

Is the signal visable in Totalmix?

Did you try changing speakers/speaker cables from left to right?

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3 Reply by Yllet (edited by Yllet 2011-06-12 22:33:42)

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Re: FF400 suddenly mono

alexoosthoek wrote:

Is the signal visable in Totalmix?

Did you try changing speakers/speaker cables from left to right?

Nop didn't try that... Maybe i need better firewire cables.

/Jon

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4 Reply by Yllet (edited by Yllet 2011-06-13 13:25:06)

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Re: FF400 suddenly mono

Could it be that Cubase or any plugin causes the fw400 to stop working, rebooting it self? Is this even possible? Or is it hardware related? I have stable us using dcp checker.

More detailed setup:

Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3
i5 2500+
Syba firewire card (TI tsb82aa2) - Texas instruments
8 gb ram
ATI 4850 - 512mb
Windows 7 64 Home
2x 7200 rpm hard drives
1x dvd
1x uad-2 duo
560 w PSU

Following tweaks made:

- Changed the firewire driver to legacy
- Processor Scheduling set to background (this makes a huge difference)
- Turning of UAC
- Disabling the Aero theme
- Disabling audio playback in windows thrue the FF
- Disabling indexing options

Turned off the services like:
- Offline files
- Windows search
- Computerbrowser
- IP Helper
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- Application Experience
- Remote registry
- SNMP Trap
- Netlogon
- Windows remote management
- Remote Desktop Services Usermode...
- Tablet PC Input Service
- Certificate Propagation
- Windows Media PLayer Network Sharing...
- BranchCache
- Smart Card
- WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
- Portable Device Enumerator Service
- Application Management
- Smart card Removal Policy
- Fax
- Webclient" *

/Jon

http://jon.rinneby.se/studio
http://www.facebook.com/turnoffyourtelevision

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Re: FF400 suddenly mono

funnily enough i just had the same problem. checked total mix and that too was just showing one channel playing so it cant just be cubase. Restarted cubase and its fine.

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Re: FF400 suddenly mono

Yllet wrote:

Could it be that Cubase or any plugin causes the fw400 to stop working, rebooting it self? Is this even possible?

That is not possible. Are you sure to not have any other FW device that could initiate a bus reset? Next step would be to use an external power supply to see if that helps. If the unexpected reboot is still there and happens regularly then the unit might be defective.

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