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Audio initialzation freeze on new install
I’m trying to install Xpress Pro 5.6.4 on a HP Media Center PC 830 (dual core, 1 GB RAM). The audio hardware is no doubt on the MB. The install went smoothly, but when opening the application is freezes at “Audio Initialization.” Anyboy else encounter this and if so were you able to find a way to work through it? Thanks in advance for any ideas or solutions.
Tip McPartland
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4 Replies
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Xpress Pro is only supported on Windows XP, but that being said – an audio error on start up can be related to your graphics card not having the right or latest drivers. I know, it doesn’t make sense but I ran into that issue myself.
Michael
anything 24fps
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Michael, thanks for your reply. It gives me something to try. The OS is Windows XP Service Pack 2 (version 5.1 build 2600) but it is the “Media Center Edition.”
I’m going to try to figure out what the deal is with the video and audio drivers, I suppose that both have built in (on the MB) hardware.
Tip
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Updated the graphics driver, it is an ATI Radeon. Before the update it said X300, now it says X300/x550.
No change, still hangs on “initialize audio.” One more thing, sometimes it gives an error message like “cannot initialize audio hardware” and then it closes the application (which was never really open). Once it also complained that there was no Digidesign hardware. Does any of this make sense?
Tip
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On one of the Avid forums I read that Xpress Pro works well with Sound Blaster cards, I installed their cheap X-Fi card ($80) and the application started up with no issues.
Tip
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