Vista Tutorial - Tascam FW-1884 would like to talk to Vista 64

I've emailed Tascam outlining my hardware. they assure me their Vista 64 bit driver works on the systems they checked it on. I'm scratching my head. Could it be a firewire issue? Could it be that although my PC under 64 bit OS recognises my printer, my realtek onboard card even Cubase 4 64 bit loads and runs but of course no asio drivers found or any control what so ever off my FW-1884. Have I missed something. i don't have any other firewire device to check that interface. I'm able to dual boot so I can go back into XP 32 bit and everything runs fine. Could dual booting be an issue? Can anyone help?

Ray

Have you checked the website for any updated drivers for your motherboard? It might cause any connected devices to fail without it...

I have and everything seems up to date

Since the device operates when you use XP, that eliminates hardware problems. It sounds as though your machine originally had XP on it, and you installed Vista on to it without disconnecting your peripherals. Problems like this are typically caused by incorrectly installing software, both the operating system and application software. When installing Vista, or any other operating system, DISCONNECT ALL peripherals apart from your mouse, keyboard, and monitor from your system. Once the operating system has installed, you need to follow the instructions from the peripheral manufacturer as to how to install their device. Some require the drivers to be installed prior to the device being connected to the PC, others have this requirement the other way round. Make sure that you have the latest drivers available for your device for your OS. These can be obtained from the device manufacturer, although sometimes a basic driver is built-in to the OS.
Dwarf

Thanks for the tip.
I certainly disconnected this firewire device on loading Vista but i probably did not disconnect all external devices usb etc when installing this OS. That would also explain the absolute age it takes to boot up compared to XP. I think I may go ahead and do what you say onto a clean sata drive Having disconnected my other drives when doing this.

Cheers

Clean install of Vista 64 bit. Updated all drivers. Took hours and hours to do this.
Installed Tascam FW-1884 drivers. Connected the device. The GUI comes up on screen allows me to change buffer size etc. Sound? NOTHING Controllers? NOTHING. no Asio drivers only WDM. I give up Back to XP 32 bit for the foreseeable future. Vista may look nice but it is like taking a step back in time. At least five minutes from power on to desktop. It may be my hardware is at the lower limit of what is needed to run Vista 64 bit comfortably but I'm not impressed at all.

I have checked the ASUS website for details on your motherboard. Certainly, it should be capable of running Vista 64-bit. Unfortunately, there is a snag. Going to the drivers download page and selecting Vista 64-bit as the operating system I have found that many of the drivers are Beta versions. These drivers are still in development, and may not work as expected. Certainly, this could explain your experience with Vista 64-bit. If motherboard drivers don't work as expected, there is little or no chance of any other devices working with your setup. Unfortunately, Vista 32-bit doesn't fare any better. As it stands, I cannot recommend that you use Vista on this machine, sorry. Keep checking the website, though. The following link is to the ASUS website page for your motherboard.
Dwarf

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support-

Thank you for checking that for me. I did ask the local supplier of the motherboard etc when purchasing Vista 64 bit to check compatibility for me, which he did while I waited. He probably didn't notice the beta driver issue anymore than I did. I will keep an eye on the ASUSTek site for any update. Perhaps I'll upgrade the motherboard and add a quad-core CPU soon using existing components to run as another sample library slave as I do with this PC I'm using on the net. I run fxpansion BFD2 drums on this which is a whacking great 132 GB. One thing for sure... I'm not buying a MAC.

OK I bought a new motherboard ASUS P5K Pro now got 6 GB ram
loaded Vista 64 running like a dream except... although my Tascam FW-1884 with vista drivers now produces sound and control over FireWire... there is a terrible buzz along with the audio... any thoughts anyone?

Tascam FW-1884 would like to talk to Vista 64

Hi Ray,

Glad to see you have got Vista 64 working on your new motherboard. From the ASUS website, I see that the audio solution is provided by Realtek. You could try the latest driver from them (link given below) to see if that solves your problem. This is version R1.91, and was released on 2008/4/22. Also, I notice that you have 2 firewire ports available. Try using the other port. How about changing the cable? Please let me know if any of this helps.
Dwarf

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