[Geoff]

hotmeat wrote:
Normally when you install drivers for a device it will install both
ASIO (if supported) and WDM Windows drivers. The WDM drivers are
the only ones you will see in the Sounds and Audio Devices panel,
and are the only ones most (non-ASIO) apps can see. You generally
select ASIO drivers directly from the supporting \application.

On my previous computer, in Sounds and Audio it would show me
Digidesign Digi 001 and another option for the factory installed
soundcard (what you mean by WDM?).
Yes, you do choose whether to use
ASIO in third-party apps, but they wouldn't work if the setting in
Sounds and Audio didn't match. So, I can select ASIO in my tracking
program, but since there isn't even that option on the system end, it
gives me an error message.



WDM is a Windows Driver Model driver. Windows does noty itself sopprt ASIO
drivers, and will never be listed as an option in the Control Panel device
selector.

That there is no WDM driver visible, and the ASIO doesn't seem to
work suggests to me that the driver install might have not completed
correctly.

I disabled the factory installed audio driver over the course of
troubleshooting and so that's why I say the option was grayed out.
Enabled or no, it still won't let me use the Digi. The install
process was flawless. I also tried uninstalling, rebooting,
swiitching the soundcard to another PCI slot so it recognized it as a
new device, reinstalled the driver, had no problems, said it was
successful....still, nothing.


Or is the Digi 001 box not normally available to non-Digi
applications ? Wouldn't surprise me given their normal restrictive
business model....

You can use the box with any other program that supports ASIO - you
just can't use ProTools software with anything other than Digidesign
hardware.

I'm wondering if the soundcard or box are damaged somehow -
though there's no real indication that they are.. Or my new PC is
incompatible somehow. besides wiping my PC and loading a fresh copy
of XP, I can't think of anything else to do except try installing it
on a friend's computer....or finding someone with a Dgii 001 who
would let me switch out the hardware to troubleshoot.
Anything else I could try before I go through all that?

May be something from the disabling that you did. Most unlikely card crook,
pc incompatibilty (though vaguely possible - try another PCI slot preferably
not adjacent to AGP slot). Reinstalling XP would be like an engine change to
cure a flat tyre.

I suggest you uninstall all the Digi drivers and software, remove the device
from Device Manager, and physically remove the card. Then do a re-boot
cycle without the Digi, checking no traces remaining on the computer. Then
shut down and start fresh.

But