realtekHD+ableton8+asio4all2.9=XPbluscreen o death

[offthesky]

hi all - love asio4all; have been using it to much avail for years now!

i recently got a lenovo 3000 n200 with good olde' winXP32 (realtek alc861 hd - driver version: 5.10.0.5995, the latest i think) and have been running ableton 8 but get some new-odd crashes from some old vst plugins (obviously ableton's fault on that)... the crashes result in the nasty xp blue screen of death/memory dump.. then immediate shutdown...

i figured out that if i disable the realtek inputs in the asio4all 2.9 control panel (advanced settings section of the task bar icon that pops up when ableton loads), when ableton crashes - i then do not get the blue screen/XPcrash/restart evilness... just a regular old program crash...

so obviously there is a conflict between the realtek driver and the asio4all 2.9 in relation to ableton (haven't had this XPcrash occur with any other audio program)... a strange threesome i think. note: even if i turn off the inputs in ableton's native audio preference panel, i still get the nasty blue screen crash. only if i turn off the realtek inputs in asio4all does the crash not result in full computer reboot.

right now every time i load ableton, the little asio4all taskbar icon appears and i have to manually turn off the inputs to prevent the XP crash if ableton crashes... but i have to do this EVERY time...

sooo, is there a way to semi-permanently disable the inputs for my realtek in asio4all so that every time i load up ableton and asio4all loads for it, the inputs for realtek/ableton in asio4all are automatically switched off by default instead of on? is there like a preferences settings file for asio4all where i could set this default for ableton?

any thoughts, advice, questions, etc. would be a huge welcome!!!

[offthesky]

okay just to follow up (and because i'm bored at work) - i tested for this same issue with audiomulch2 and flstudio9 on the lenovo using the realtek driver and same XP crash issue... unless i disable the input in the ASIO4all control panel first then only audio program crashes occur...

i also tried to recreate this issue on a dell inspiron 530 quad that incidentally uses the exact same realtek HD driver and the same XP blue screen crash results as with the lenovo... hope that helps identify the issue as being a realtekHD+asio4all issue.

now i certainly don't need my inputs (as the quality on these cards suck) so i'd rather just be able to have asio4all auto turn the inputs off every time it loads up anyway - is there a way to do this? sorry if the solution is absolutely lame and right under my nose...

[exyll]

Well it remembers my configuration just fine.

Just make sure that you set the configuration as you wish and then just restart the application as it is well then save it.

[offthesky]

unfortunately asio4all doesn't seem to want to remember the settings for any sound app i'm using on both the lenovo, the dell inspiron 530, and a toshiba tecra laptop i have (it uses a different realtek driver)... maybe its an asio4all+winXP32 conflict?

anyway i wish i could get asio4all to remember my input settings but after trying all possible settings combinations, nothings seems to do the trick still

[exyll]

Strange that is does not store the settings. Should just work on XP. Settings are stored in the registry so maybe its a security related issue. Are you running as administrator? If not then you could try do that and see if that works because as an administrator you should have no problem writing anywere in the registry under XP.

[louboutin]

Dec 18, 2009 12:57:16 GMT @offthesky said:

hi all - love asio4all; have been using it to much avail for years now!

i recently got a lenovo 3000 n200 with good olde' winXP32 (realtek alc861 hd - driver version: 5.10.0.5995, the latest i think) and have been running ableton 8 but get some new-odd crashes from some old vst plugins (obviously ableton's fault on that)... the crashes result in the nasty xp blue screen of death/memory dump.. then immediate shutdown...

i figured out that if i disable the realtek inputs in the asio4all 2.9 control panel (advanced settings section of the task bar icon that pops up when ableton loads), when ableton crashes - i then do not get the blue screen/XPcrash/restart evilness... just a regular old program crash...

so obviously there is a conflict between the realtek driver and the asio4all 2.9 in relation to ableton (haven't had this XPcrash occur with any other audio program)... a strange threesome i think. note: even if i turn off the inputs in ableton's native audio preference panel, i still get the nasty blue screen crash. only if i turn off the realtek inputs in asio4all does the crash not result in full computer reboot.

right now every time i load ableton, the little asio4all taskbar icon appears and i have to manually turn off the inputs to prevent the XP crash if ableton crashes... but i have to do this EVERY time...

sooo, is there a way to semi-permanently disable the inputs for my realtek in asio4all so that every time i load up ableton and asio4all loads for it, the inputs for realtek/ableton in asio4all are automatically switched off by default instead of on? is there like a preferences settings file for asio4all where i could set this default for ableton?

any thoughts, advice, questions, etc. would be a huge welcome!!!

[lhaymehr]

Uninstall official Realtek drivers, erradicate them from the system, the install the ones provided via Windows Update. No more BSODs.