BIOS upgrade problem?

12 Mar 2005 10:18 AM

Grumps

Hi All

System:
Gigabyte GA8IPE1000 Rev 2
1Gig DDR
WinXp-Pro SP1
2x120Gig IDE
1x200Gig SATA
nVidia 5700Ultra
Enermax 480W PSU

The mobo had the first release BIOS, so I decided to upgrade it due to small
problems with the SATA drive. I don't think any upgrades mentioned SATA in
the 'bugs fixed' list, but I thought I'd give it a try. The SATA problem is
that the drive just disappears sometimes (twice actually). A reboot (not
power cycle) makes it come back.
Anyway, I did the BIOS upgrade, going one rev at a time (with reboots
inbetween). But now, I have an application that will not run. Cakewalk Pro
Audio 9 just gives me the 'oh dear I have a problem, sorry for the
inconvenience etc' message. As soon as I start this program I get a little
picture of a keyboard (piano) in my taskbar (that thing bottom right with
little icons, and the time etc). I don't ever remember having this before.
If you hover over it, it says MIDI activity. Maybe it's always been there.
I have another MIDI app that still works, but there is no activity shown on
this icon thing.
Question is, how can I get rid of this MIDI icon? Is it this causing the
problem?
And, how can I get my CW pro audio 9 working again? I have uninstalled, and
re-installed (with rebooting in between), but no change.
Even if I disable the MIDI port in the BIOS, when I start cakewalk I get get
this midi activity icon.
Thanks for listening.

12 Mar 2005 5:39 PM

kony

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:56 -0000, "Grumps"
<grumpsnoth***@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>Hi All
>
>System:
>Gigabyte GA8IPE1000 Rev 2
>1Gig DDR
>WinXp-Pro SP1
>2x120Gig IDE
>1x200Gig SATA
>nVidia 5700Ultra
>Enermax 480W PSU
>
>The mobo had the first release BIOS, so I decided to upgrade it due to small
>problems with the SATA drive. I don't think any upgrades mentioned SATA in
>the 'bugs fixed' list, but I thought I'd give it a try. The SATA problem is
>that the drive just disappears sometimes (twice actually). A reboot (not
>power cycle) makes it come back.

Check the SATA connectors at both ends, as they are a weak
link in SATA design.

>Anyway, I did the BIOS upgrade, going one rev at a time (with reboots
>inbetween). But now, I have an application that will not run. Cakewalk Pro
>Audio 9 just gives me the 'oh dear I have a problem, sorry for the
>inconvenience etc' message. As soon as I start this program I get a little
>picture of a keyboard (piano) in my taskbar (that thing bottom right with
>little icons, and the time etc). I don't ever remember having this before.
>If you hover over it, it says MIDI activity. Maybe it's always been there.
>I have another MIDI app that still works, but there is no activity shown on
>this icon thing.
>Question is, how can I get rid of this MIDI icon? Is it this causing the
>problem?

Check your bios audio settings. Had you loaded the defaults
after the bios upgrade (might try that too if not)?

>And, how can I get my CW pro audio 9 working again? I have uninstalled, and
>re-installed (with rebooting in between), but no change.
>Even if I disable the MIDI port in the BIOS, when I start cakewalk I get get
>this midi activity icon.
>Thanks for listening.
>

This might be more of a software issue for the time being,
ie- to determine exactly why CW does this, what
circumstances cause it. I can't help there but there's
probably a CW (or at least general audio) newsgroup(s) that
might help, then when you know why it does it you have more
to go on?

12 Mar 2005 11:30 PM

Grumps

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"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:18:56 -0000, "Grumps"
> <grumpsnoth***@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi All
> >
> >System:
> >Gigabyte GA8IPE1000 Rev 2
> >1Gig DDR
> >WinXp-Pro SP1
> >2x120Gig IDE
> >1x200Gig SATA
> >nVidia 5700Ultra
> >Enermax 480W PSU
> >
> >The mobo had the first release BIOS, so I decided to upgrade it due to
small
> >problems with the SATA drive. I don't think any upgrades mentioned SATA
in
> >the 'bugs fixed' list, but I thought I'd give it a try. The SATA problem
is
> >that the drive just disappears sometimes (twice actually). A reboot (not
> >power cycle) makes it come back.
>
> Check the SATA connectors at both ends, as they are a weak
> link in SATA design.

I've changed the SATA cable.

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> >Anyway, I did the BIOS upgrade, going one rev at a time (with reboots
> >inbetween). But now, I have an application that will not run. Cakewalk
Pro
> >Audio 9 just gives me the 'oh dear I have a problem, sorry for the
> >inconvenience etc' message. As soon as I start this program I get a
little
> >picture of a keyboard (piano) in my taskbar (that thing bottom right with
> >little icons, and the time etc). I don't ever remember having this
before.
> >If you hover over it, it says MIDI activity. Maybe it's always been
there.
> >I have another MIDI app that still works, but there is no activity shown
on
> >this icon thing.
> >Question is, how can I get rid of this MIDI icon? Is it this causing the
> >problem?
>
> Check your bios audio settings. Had you loaded the defaults
> after the bios upgrade (might try that too if not)?

Yes. defaults loaded every time I flashed the BIOS.

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> >And, how can I get my CW pro audio 9 working again? I have uninstalled,
and
> >re-installed (with rebooting in between), but no change.
> >Even if I disable the MIDI port in the BIOS, when I start cakewalk I get
get
> >this midi activity icon.
> >Thanks for listening.
> >
>
> This might be more of a software issue for the time being,
> ie- to determine exactly why CW does this, what
> circumstances cause it. I can't help there but there's
> probably a CW (or at least general audio) newsgroup(s) that
> might help, then when you know why it does it you have more
> to go on?

Yes. There is a CW newsgroup, and there are several posts about WinXP
incompatibility with this software. It's just funny that it used to work,
and now it doesn't. Oh, and XP isn't a supported OS with this CW product -
which just makes getting support impossible.