Topic: Lenovo Thinkpad E520 + hdspe expresscard + Multiface= FAIL? (!)
It's a resignated post, almost just for the the record: After 4 days of tweaking and messing around with a brandnew Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 (2nd gen core i5, AMD® Radeon™ HD 6630M 1GB, intel HM65 chipset), trying with two hdspe expresscards (both rev 18) and two different MF I (all working fine on other systems), i 'm nearly giving up!
from the beginning on they seem not to get friends: after inserting, the system was mostly quite hangy and often bluescreened, the mouse pointer movement was interrupted and stopped every second.
The result I got is: device and driver are installed and recognized (which was an epic 4 hour battle...). I'm not exactly shure what I did but, i disabled some things, waited 20 minutes, and there it was: device manager stated an unrecognized Mediadevice
but still: red light on Multiface, Hdsp settimg window states "i/o box: error", and crashes with bluescreens when i go to the "about"-tab. Every 4th time i try i got a Bluescreen with Hdsp_64.sy caused a "page fault in none paged area". Sometimes (happened three times) i got a i/o box connected and can play 2-3 Seconds of Sound before I get a Bluescreen...
So here a list what I did:
-Tried two different Drivers (3.2.4 and 3.083)
- checked the serial of the newer one of the Expresscards which 22752220 and not on the blacklist (?), anyway i tested it with two different cards...
- installed all available win7 and lenovo updates which were system related
-disabled internal Soundcard in device manager
- deactivated Expresscard power management in bios
- set all performance settings to best performance
-tried all Pcie modes available in bios
- disabled in Bios Bluetooth, Hdmi port, Optical drive, Wlan, Wwan, fingerprint, ... everything except usb and expresscard
- updated Bios and chipset drivers
- changed the priority of the irq 19 (which is the expresscard) to high in the registry
- phoned RME hotline which were quite friendly and helpful but had no useful hint
- phoned Lenovo Hotline which were quite unfriendly and ignorant, had no useful hint and refusing service telling me that "it's the fault of the expresscard vendor"
- reseted the system and started all over again
- tried 3 FW-Cables, just to be shure;)
- Annoyed my girlfriend with spontaneous outbursts like "if i change the Irq's, transfer the secondary Energy to the tachyon-matrix...."
- banged my head several times against the wall...
- performed black magic in sacrificing and old 386-Laptop in a bloody ritual...
So far no success, and i get some gray hairs more! I read many threads in this forum stating that buying a notebook is a try and error, and can only agree! I miss the times when i used pcmcia and it mostly was like "plug and play"...
I'm not that pro with the inner live of PC laptops and the inner live of Win 7....Did I forget something? Somebody any idea? Except "buy a Mac"
greetings
niel
