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    Overlord of Music kimball492's Avatar
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    Yeah a lot of Daws especially Pro Tools hates Via chipsets. So you've reinstalled the Saffire Pro then restarted sometimes if You don't restart it doesn't discover the latest drivers. Try to do a rescan in devices if it's showing in the devices list. Also try another cable. My a Eleven rack played up recently it was a cable that had decided to go walkabout. Have you checked to see if you have the latest firmware Doc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kimball492 View Post
    Yeah a lot of Daws especially Pro Tools hates Via chipsets. So you've reinstalled the Saffire Pro then restarted sometimes if You don't restart it doesn't discover the latest drivers. Try to do a rescan in devices if it's showing in the devices list. Also try another cable. My a Eleven rack played up recently it was a cable that had decided to go walkabout. Have you checked to see if you have the latest firmware Doc.

    Cheers, I'll give that a go later on this afternoon or maybe tonight, I'm going to see if I can get the ASRock motherboard to boot this afternoon too, I've just installed the CPU Heatsink that was in my DAW PC on the ASRock motherboard along with some fresh Silver Heatsink Compound, just need to find a good BIOS battery for it.


    I tried looking on the Focusrite website to see if there was an updated Firmware for my Saffire Pro 40 but couldn't find anything other than the most up to date Driver installer, from what I understand, the Driver Installer automatically updates the Firmware if it needs to be updated, I might look into buying a couple of new Firewire cables tomorrow since I'm going to Jaycar Electronics again anyway, I'm actually going to Cash Converters tomorrow since they are right next door to Jaycar Electronics, they have a white Ibanez RG350DX in stock,which I'm very interested in buying.


    Update:


    I have just tried re-connecting my Saffire Pro40 up to my PC, the Power, Locked, and Firewire Active Leds are lit up, but when I launch the Saffire Mix Control software, it says "Device Not Connected", I have the most recent Saffire Pro40 Driver (Saffire Mix Control 3.7) installed, and I'm using the exact same Firewire Cable as I was when I had the Digi002 connected, the Firewire cable is plugged into the same port on the DAW PC as it was when the Digi002 was connected, the Digi002 works fine with sound, but the Saffire Pro40 isn't producing sound even though Windows Device Manager reports that the Saffire Pro40 is working properly, the little speaker icon in my systray looks as it should for a working sound system, so I reckon my Saffire Pro40 is malfunctioning in some weird way.


    Hmmmmmm....I just tried launching Saffire Mix Control and saw that it is saying that my Saffire Pro40 is not locked even though the Locked Led is lit, so, something is definitely malfunctioning somewhere.


    There's this article I found on Focusrite's Knowledge Base:

    https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-...cles/206849129


    So, it looks like the problems I'm having with my Saffire Pro40 are due to an incompatibility issue with Windows 10, my Saffire Pro40, and the VIA Chipsets controlling my Firewire 400 Ports, looks like I need to get a couple of PCI Firewire Cards with Texas Instruments Chipsets, the funny thing is, Avid recommend Texas Instrument Chipsets when using the Digi002 and that is working fine with the VIA Chipsets in my DAW PC....weird, I would have expected both Firewire devices not to work, but one does and the other doesn't.
    Last edited by DrNomis_44; 26-04-2016 at 05:46 PM.

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