I'm betting is something 2 do with your firewire port... if it isn't an in-boar port, but a pci, try swapping pci slot just as another work-a-round...

My m8 at the shop has one of those soundcard and works perfectly with everything and he's on a siemens laptop!

Have u donne any tweaks 2 yer xp?

I have a USB soundcard that just acted up when using my "studio tweaked OS" but when I runned it on the normal net/ work OS it functioned like a charm! !?... I later needed 2 format the all thing, the other day I decide 2 try just out of curiosity and it works!!

Is your windows updated... I know most xps don't really get serious untill u've installed the 2nd Service Pack....



If u have the possibility 2 try on some1 else's computer, please do, I think it might be one of those crazy OS/ firewire probs!


Let me remind u of the trick 2 update the drives manually in hardware setup... it's the only way 2 get a M-Audio Quattro/ Duo 2 work normally 4 instace...


Z