Inspire and software interference?

[jobertson]

Hello everybody. Bought my Inspire couple of months ago and it has never really worked well except for shorter periods (and then it was a nice machine I think). Pc user, XP Home, double core Athlon 4200+, 2 Gb. I've checked my hardware, should work fine, replaced the 1394 interface, installed SP2 hotfix, re-re-re-re-installed drivers including the latest 2.64 and older drivers all over again, with Firewall software deactivated. Results gradually worsening. Computer registry is cleaned and I've reduced the number of start meny programs too what I think is minimum. Potentially rival soundcards are deactivated (Creative X-Fi) but not physically removed. In Hardware meny there are no shown hardware conflicts.

Writing this my Inspire shows a cosy blue light, but as I start the Control Panel it goes red after a short while or the driver program hangs. If it works the sound gets distorted after a while as if there is some kind of interference or competitional sound issue. Functionality with Cubase 4 has been very shaky last weeks. Slowly going down the drain.

I've started to suspect my Norton Internet Security or any other running software that causes problems. I've found no way to actually terminate Norton, just deactivate it. Can this be the cause? Try another firewall/AV software? Are there any background running programs known to cause these kind of problems? Have I terminated any crucial processes along the way?

Any suggestions, please, I'm getting desperate about this. /PJ

[jobertson]

Ah no? Maybe I'll try to contact tech support anyway. Seems by the way now that it is the driver software that turn sync light red. Bugs in driver?

[MelodicJimmy]

I can't answer the question with any depth, but I will say this:

NORTON SUCKS. I have it on my two month old HP desktop and everything was fine. I bought one of the PodXT packs and couldn't log in to the Line 6 Monkey software that allows you to download stuff to your Pod via USB.

I kept getting an error message saying I had to turn off my anti-virus software. I tried disabling Norton. Impossible. I figured I'd just uninstall it because the trial period was up anyway. So, I uninstalled it and -- BIG MISTAKE.

As soon as I uninstalled it (USING THE DIRECTIONS ON NORTON'S WEBSITE!), Sonar Home Studio 6 stopped working. I got an error that "Sonar was not properly installed and needed to be reinstalled." Instead, I rolled back to a couple of days ago with the backup feature Vista comes with (don't know if XP comes with this). Sonar started working again, my projects were fine. But, my wireless internet was GONE. Tried reinstalling the drivers - nothing.

So, I literally had to backup all m projects and do a f'ing SYSTEM RESTORE, then reinstall ALL my programs. So, in conclusion, and pardon my language: **** Norton.

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