LynxTWO- Nuendo- please Help!!

I know you are getting frustrated, but you have to understand that we simply have never seen this issue before.  There is something about your specific installation that is keeping the driver from loading properly, and since we have never seen this issue, it is very difficult to imagine what that might be. 

Clearly should be able to go into the \Windows\System32\Driver folder and see that LynxWDM.SYS (or LynxTWO.SYS if you are using the V1 driver) is there.  So if you can see that file, then there is nothing missing - your system is keeping the upper level ASIO driver from seeing the lower level ASIO driver.  This can happen only if:

1) You have installed different version of LynxTWO.Dll/LynxWDM.Dll and LynxTWO.sys/LynxWDM.sys.  In other words, if you have LynxTWO.dll and LynxWDM.sys then that obviously isn't going to work.  This would be pretty hard to do - since you would have to manually go into the folders and be moving files around - and go into the registry and be changing things manually there.

2) You don't have permission to open the kernel driver (LynxWDM.sys).

3) The kernel driver somehow didn't load properly.

You should be able to playback audio using the LynxDemo included on the CD you received with the card.  If you can play using LynxDemo, then there is no reason I can think of (other than the administrator rights issue) that would keep the ASIO driver from working.

So to answer your question directly, I wrote the driver and I simply have no idea what is going on with your system.  Yes, with have 10's of thousands of other users working properly and we have never seen this issue before - but that doesn't help your specific problem.

Since you are unwilling or unable to:

1) Flash new firmware as a test.

2) Do a clean install of the OS.

3) Try the card in a different computer.

What else can we help with?  There is obviously something wrong with the installation on that specific computer that has never come up before.  Unless we have access to the machine, it is going to be difficult for us to debug using the forum. 

You need to call Lynx Tech Support on Monday and see if there is anything else that we have missed.


Edited by David A Hoatson - July/01/2007 at 8:44am

I either emailed or called Paul. You can ask him, hopefully he remembers.
It is resolved by the way long ago......like the next day or same day...
I can send you the last part email on the subject, although it mentions
bsod's not explicitly the kernel which was either mentioned earlier in an
unsaved email by me or in a phone call.
rsp

Clearly we want to help get you going (I'm typing this on a Saturday afternoon when I should be with my family!), I just don't know what to suggest next.

I'll think on this an see if there is some other test that I can think of...

well I haven't heard anything more from anyone over the weekend. I have decided to go ahead and flash the card tomorrow with the latest firmware in hope that it will make a difference. If not, than it's back to the store for LynxTWO. I mean, if the guys who wrote the drivers and software are stumped by this strange phenomena then what can lil ol me do?

Please allow me to throw this in...

For whatever reason I have had many unsolvable problems over the years, computer-wise. Problems that no tech support department could help me with. So many, infact, that I have come up with a statement for same phenomenon:

"If no one on earth has ever had my specific problem, it is my problem, something specific to my system which is different than every other system in the world. I alone must fix it"

The only solution I have found is to carefully work through my system until I find it, or the problem goes away - I often never actually know what the problem was - I am no-o-o tech...

I conclude by saying that I have been sucessful in resolving every single unsolvable problem I've ever had all by myself, by just working through it. That and asking a million questions of everyone I know who might have a clue(And sometimes do.)...

In the end(Or the beginning if you are no glutten for punishment) you must:

1. Make sure there are no old elements/remants of old software.

2. Make sure the hardware is good(I said MAKE SURE!).

3. Make sure the software you have is good.

4. Re-install(Or get that latest update!) the last installed thing first and work back to the first thing installed(The BIOS?).

I have not re-installed an OS in years. I have not taken my machine to an "expert" in years - but I have gone through inestimable trials and tribulations and many, many hours of struggle. Sometimes... even I must recommend... one can avoid these impossible tasks(What do I know about "remnants"?) by formatting the HD and starting over. Do what you can to avoid it but don't wait forever - it isn't worth it...

 

Teddy "We all feel your pain" G.

 

Just emailed you instructions for downloading a test driver.

David and Paul, I am available to be hired as a consultant :-)
my pay. hm aurora 16, ltfw,pci-express card.....

all kidding aside, I am glad it worked...
I hope you LOVE it after all of this..... :-)
my previous card was a motu 2408mkII and to say it was a huge step up
is an understatement.

1) based on quality of AD/DA's

2) believe it or not :-), the quality of the drivers to get low latency (with
the motu I had to use 512 latency on my then computer, the lynx allowed
me 256 without a problem...

3) and the outstanding support....I challenge you to find any other audio
card maker who has their owner/head software guy not only present on
the web, but interacting ON A WEEKEND....

hope you love it.
rsp

I think it was a lynx 2b he said he had.
rsp

Hi, yep my name is Harry....good guess

..and yep it is a LynxTWO b the firmware was 2001 if memory serves. i think it was no1 also, now upto 14

In my first comparison by the way against the 828MKII I have noticed there is less bass and more high end. I do like the bass but I will now have to get used to mixing with the Lynx for a few days to see if by adding more bass to compensate will actually be a true to life sound. I did a quick mix last night of something which i mixed with the 828 and it sounded nice in the studio but was bass light outside, so I will have to work with it for a bit. I have managed to get an extension from the shop since it is only now just working.

I also notice that running the mix with MOTU, I was able to get more performance i.e with buffers set to 512 it was running with the comp cpu at 75% whereas the same setting on the Lynx, it is almost crapping out, fluctuating around 90-95% and when I try to make adjustments to say eq in real time, it is clicking and popping.

I would have expected the opposite seeing that it is inside the computer and therefore does not have so much work to do in and out via firewire, as well as trying to keep up running plugins etc am I wrong in my thinking?

regards
Harry