BIOS upgrade problem?

[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.

 

[kony]

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?

 

[Grumps]

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

I've changed the SATA cable.

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.

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.