I read on the other topic something about PCMCIA not being able to supply sufficient power for external units on firewire or at least that 6 pinned firewire
See also this topic:
http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?sho…c=10803&hl=
You might try to disable the internal soundcard through the BIOS if possible (they sometimes also interfere resource-wise) or see which drivers to use…
Bantai had lots of problems with the Audiophile firewire edition of the soundcard:
http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?sho…amp;hl=firewire
http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?sho…amp;hl=firewire
There is a list of compatible devices the soundcard works with:
http://m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.fa…8461892c065fbd1
Also the M-audio guys reported that the audiocard has the least problems if your machine has a VIA or Texas Instruments chipset.
All these things set quite some limitations for your soundcard and i think Bantai can confirm this.
I’ve moved the particular topic from the dev-area to here:
http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=9727
You should be able to view all investigations so far.