M-Audio 1814 Device is not being recognized on my pc --

You are going to need a special sound card with an input either MIDI or line in audio. Then you will use a Digital Recorder Software program like Propeller Head Reason. Which will produce the sound recording so you can replay it. There is a lot more to doing this. As far as the PC not recognizing the device in question here. You will have to install the driver and software for that device. John

lick start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll through all of your devices

if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or a red X you will need to update the drivers for this device right click select update driver/reinstall driver

if you can see your usb device but its not working scroll to Ports(Com&Ltd) right click to update driver

if you computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it
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Hope it helps

Go to your computers control panel find your devices section locate your settings for your synth in/out to see if there active or not. consider to go tothe M-Audio website to chec for recent downloads for ti. You may need to upgrade your windows?

see your m powerd out put. 

What you might want to try is to connect the USB cable to the device and an open port on your PC and let it charge and see if after it has a full charge if you can power it on without having any other problem. Or if after it has a full charge if it is recognized by your PC as a connected device. If it has a full charge and recognized by your PC you should be able to use it without having any problem. Another solution is to download the updated firmware software, run the firmware update check your device and see if the display shows the Creative Labs logo if so you are in the clear and it should work without any other action needing to be taken on your behalf

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there is probably an address conflict going on--check in the bios to be sure that the firewire port is set to auto

Your Notebook is installed with High Definition audio card which XP cannot recognize by default. Installing Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) will allow XP to recognize High Definition audio cards.

Download the Microsoft UAA drivers for Windows XP form the link:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33867.exe

Restart the Notebook after the UAA Drivers are installed.

Now, download Conexant High Definition Audio Drivers for your Notebook for XP :

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34386.exe

You should be able to install the Audio Drivers without any issues.

possible a loose connection, check to ensure you close the drive until a check is heard.check device manager to ensure device is listed and then go to its 'properties' ensure the current devis is recognized.you could also do a remove device,reboot, and have OS recognize a new device.clean the device with a lens cleaner.