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I've got the same damn problem

I've never had a problem with my 1820m until I had to format my computer and install everything again. Now when Windows XP loads the drivers it pauses for a long time, all the lights come on and stay on. Before, all lights used to come on before going off, leaving on the few according to my settings.

I have found that if I leave my computer on for 30 mins then enter the patchmix program before the Session Settings, then alter the frequency from 44.1 to 48khz (or back) before pressing OK, the dock suddenly loads and is fine.

I'm starting to think this is a software problem. Damn Emu, they create a great piece of hardware, stop making it straight away, then don't provide adequate drivers.

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Download and install the latest V2.1 Patchmix DSP Application and also the V2.1 Audio System Driver from EMU at

http://www.emu.com/support/files/download2.asp?Centric=760&Platform=1

Have you been downloading and applying any updates from Microsoft recently? If you have downloaded and installed both of the above then you should check the function of the board via System manager and Device Manager to see if there are any errors or conflicts showing and if so resolve them.

As you say it takes a long time to load initially you may want to uninstall the application and driver then run a registry clean to make sure that there are not multiple instances of the EMU in the registry as this will cause contention issues that could exhibit the behaviour that you are seeing. Ashampoo at www.ashampoo.com will do an excellent job if you need one you can do it for free for 30 days.

You may also be experiencing a lack of memory in the system – you can never have enough, your hard disk may be nearing capacity and also may need defragmenting – again the Ashampoo will do an excellent job. Also take a look at how much swap space is allocated and increase its size and change it’s location to a quiet disk if you can – preferably not one being hammered with sound data.

Then reinstall the EMU driver and app.

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