Topic: Problems with M-Audiophile 2496 & DVD_RW drive

[toriphilemaria]

I installed a new M-Audiophile 2496 soundcard on Thursday and noticed that my DVDRW (NEC 3500) was performing VERY slow... taking more than an  hour to extract a DVD. Then today I disabled my old soundcard (through device manager) and left only the M-Audiophile card and noticed that my DVD drive was no longer recognized by Win XP... it would not show up under My Computer or in any program (however a 2nd CDRW drive evidenced none of these problems). I re-enabledmy old soundcard and left both souncards enabled (though I made the M-Audiophile the default for eveyrthing) and now I notice if I try to play music while Im using my DVD drive, it will not play properly:  it lags/skips and sounds distorted as hell.  I've tried googling this and have come up with nothing.    Also, I am using the latest Audiophile drivers from the m-audio website.  Any ideas??   

Thanks in advance.

[F.O.Bean]

thats very cool youcrafted your avitar after your actual photos

+T and welcome, sorry im no help tho!

[leegeddy]

I installed a new M-Audiophile 2496 soundcard on Thursday and noticed that my DVDRW (NEC 3500) was performing VERY slow... taking more than an  hour to extract a DVD. Then today I disabled my old soundcard (through device manager) and left only the M-Audiophile card and noticed that my DVD drive was no longer recognized by Win XP... it would not show up under My Computer or in any program (however a 2nd CDRW drive evidenced none of these problems). I re-enabledmy old soundcard and left both souncards enabled (though I made the M-Audiophile the default for eveyrthing) and now I notice if I try to play music while Im using my DVD drive, it will not play properly:  it lags/skips and sounds distorted as hell.  I've tried googling this and have come up with nothing.    Also, I am using the latest Audiophile drivers from the m-audio website.  Any ideas??   

Thanks in advance.

you may want to install the 2496 card in a different slot.

marc

[toriphilemaria]

I've solved the problem myself. I installed new firmware for the DVDRW drive (apparently NEC doenst provide driver d/ls for WinXP but they did have firmware updates) and things are now working splendly. woo hoo. 

[toriphilemaria]

thats very cool youcrafted your avitar after your actual photos

Thanks!

[CHURCH-AUDIO]

I installed a new M-Audiophile 2496 soundcard on Thursday and noticed that my DVDRW (NEC 3500) was performing VERY slow... taking more than an  hour to extract a DVD. Then today I disabled my old soundcard (through device manager) and left only the M-Audiophile card and noticed that my DVD drive was no longer recognized by Win XP... it would not show up under My Computer or in any program (however a 2nd CDRW drive evidenced none of these problems). I re-enabledmy old soundcard and left both souncards enabled (though I made the M-Audiophile the default for eveyrthing) and now I notice if I try to play music while Im using my DVD drive, it will not play properly:  it lags/skips and sounds distorted as hell.  I've tried googling this and have come up with nothing.    Also, I am using the latest Audiophile drivers from the m-audio website.  Any ideas??   

Thanks in advance.

Sounds to me like it is a device sharring conflict. What I would do is take out all cards except video and put them back one at a time. After each restart make sure that the sound cards are not using the same addresses on the mother board. Check device manager settings for each device and finaly make sure you have the most up to date drivers / bios installed on your computer. I use a m-audio interface for my testing its a m-audio duo its pretty good for 2 track stereo stuff but the drivers for m-audio have always been a pain in the ass. Remember once it works dont mess with it