yeah still no joy - & ive tried different ports :cry:

I wonder if it could be a conflict with the actual firewire pci card itself..?

i remember my old motu didnt like the built in firewire on my laptop but as soon as i put a pcmcia one in it worked fine..

Im going to try swapping the firewire cards from my 2 machines around and keep my fingers crossed that does it.

By the way ZM - have you dowloaded 'character' yet?
what a ****ing amazing plugin!!