Losing drivers

I got m-audio drivers installed did some recording, Great right? Turned it back on yesturday and the the drives for the m-audio are not showing up. I had to uninstall the other day and then reinstall. What do i need to do so they show up everytime. Thanks

XP, Vista, Tiger, Leopard?

I'm running windows xp. I've found out I need service pack 2 on my laptop. It has sp1 now. I wasn't choosing the right hardware either. Going to installed SP2 and then download latest drivers from M-audio tonight. Hopefully that will cure most of my troubles.

Also make sure the m-audio interface is plugged into the same USB or whatever port each time. I've had problems with that.

1. Check for updates to your M-Audio drivers, updates to the operating system and updates for the MC3 program.

If that doesn't work:

2. Before you even open Music Creator, unplug the M-Audio device from the usb port and plug it back in.

If that doesn't work:

3. Sometimes having more than one sound device on a pc computer causes program confusion. You have two audio devices, your M-Audio device and the Sigma sound card. Use your M-Audio interface like it is the permanent sound card for your system.

To make the M-Audio the default audio device.

Start/Settings/ControlPanel/Sounds and Audio devices/

on the sounds and audio devices property dialogue box

under sound playback select you M-Audio device output # (the output number your speakers are attached to on the interface)

under sound recording select your M-Audio device input # (the input number your instrument is connected to)

don't worry about midi music playback

if that doesn't work:

3. Disable the sigma audio device in the hardware manager only if you know what you are doing.

start/setting/control panel/system hit the "hardware tab" hit the "device manager" button hit the "+" button where it says "sound video and game controllers" look for a name that makes reference to your Sigma put your mouse over that name and right click and hit "disable"

If that doesn't work:

4. Make sure you are not using a usb hub, plug into a usb port directly on th pc not an external hub

Check for IRQ conflicts, maybe another device is sharing the same IRQ address. Not 100% familiar with this so can't help you here. It's a bit of a nerdy operation.

I found all the problems. I had to upgrade to ServicePack 2 for my xp system. I was running SP1. Then I up loaded the most recent M-audio drivers and everythings good. I laid a simple song down in about one hour. I got to use the MXL 900 mic plus a few other things. Now I can take the time to figure a few other things; mainly, how to work the 1) metronone, 2) looping, and 3)mixing it so I can burn a CD. I hope I can sound has half as good has you guys around here. The cakewalk MC program seems pretty easy so far.

I found all the problems. I had to upgrade to ServicePack 2 for my xp system. I was running SP1. Then I up loaded the most recent M-audio drivers and everythings good. I laid a simple song down in about one hour. I got to use the MXL 900 mic plus a few other things. Now I can take the time to figure a few other things; mainly, how to work the 1) metronone, 2) looping, and 3)mixing it so I can burn a CD. I hope I can sound has half as good has you guys around here. The cakewalk MC program seems pretty easy so far.

I've had similar issues already with an M-Audio Fast Track USB. I'm running XP SP2 but I think my USB card might be cranky. Sometimes I have to switch to a different port and everything comes up fine, control panel shows connected and box streams fine with 256 sample buffer.

Can I suggest that you download and use Asio4all ?

It is pretty much a driver solution which allows everything to run from the same driver .