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Scope XITE "sees" pulsar board on Windows 8.1
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:58 am
by FrancisHarmany
I reinstalled my PC to Windows 8.1 32bit. I ran 64 windows 8 before this and encountered the same issue.
The Scope XITE installation shows my Pulsar card.
http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=32932
Now with this fresh installation (new harddrive, differnt windows 8.1 32bit install software) I see the same thing (screenshot attached).
Would this be the XITE driver somehow being confused with Windows 8.1 internals and being aware of the Pulsar card ? There are two scope cards in the machine as well, but as you can see they do not show up.
Eitherway a confusing "glitch". I'm affraid this will effect stability someho w so I pulled the card out of the machine for now. I have not tried installing the PCI drivers... perhaps this will fix the issue. Will try that later.
This machine has an INTEL DP35DP mainboard.
If someone has an idea whats going on here......
Re: Scope XITE "sees" pulsar board on Windows 8.1
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:39 am
by FrancisHarmany
Installing Scope PCI has no effect. The driver install sees the Pulsar Card. But the software does not. I can't select the card when importing key-file.
I think, somehow, the Pulsar card ends up in the device manager as "Scope XITE". If I look under the Sound Video Gamecontroler section of section of the device manager I see:
Scope XITE
Scope XITE-1
Sonic Core Scope
Sonic Core Scope
Those last two are obviously my Scope + Scope SRB card. So Scope XITE must be the Pulsar.
I am going to try to reinstall the Pulsar card using the PCI driver....
Re: Scope XITE "sees" pulsar board on Windows 8.1
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:43 am
by garyb
yes, update the driver in the device manager and manually select the PCI driver. that should fix things.
Re: Scope XITE "sees" pulsar board on Windows 8.1
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:58 am
by FrancisHarmany
That worked somewhat...
I deleted the Scope XITE device. Rescan for hardware changes => Same problem.
Then deleted the device and checked 'delete driver sofware'. Rescan for hardware changes and immediatly the Scope Pulsar appeared. However one of the scope cards disappeared and showed up as "unkown multimedia device" or something. I reinstalled that driver and it seems to be working.
Can't get ASIO working yet on the Pulsar. Perhaps because STDM cables are still disconnected, but I doubt that. Will investigate further.
The XITE install now works and sees no Pulsar.
I checked the logs of the Scope Pulsar device and it showed that the ScopeXite driver was being used at first, then it used the Scope driver.
Of course its still a mystery why the ScopeXite installation software attaches a driver to the Pulsar card......
Re: Scope XITE "sees" pulsar board on Windows 8.1
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:10 pm
by dante
With Windows 8.1 I did not install Scope PCI and XITE cards until after I had installed Windows and other DAW software. No problem.
Then I had to downgrade to Win 8 pro - but this time the cards were already physically installed and Windows got confused. Even when I tried to install Scope as admin with driver signing turned off.
Then I bought a driver toolkit app which methodically went through and auto installed all latest updates to everything - video, network, USB, mouse etc etc.
After that, the system accepted the normal Scope installers, resolved with thier proper names in device manager and everything worked.
It seemed like my system had to have all other stuff working with no other question marks in device manager before Scope hardware could be resolved. Possibly because my new ASUS Z87C mobo was built after Windows 8 Pro, so W8P didnt have up to date drivers out of the box (so couldnt resolve devices properly - incl Scope).