Os 9 Won't Boot With Us428, Extension / Hardware Conflict? Options

[ElTurko]

Here's a head-scrather for the group:

I'm having problems booting when the US428 is turned on. It either hangs once the desktop starts to appear, requiring a reset, or if it makes it through start-up I get a Finder quit. After the Finder quit, things appear to work OK and I've been able to record although I'm leery of trusting things after a quit. On rare occasions things boot correctly.

Unplug the US428, or leave it plugged in but turned off & everything's fine. Sounds like an extension conflict so disabled all that seemed to make sense and it still does it. Printers and anything else on the USB are turned off. Problem persists.

Try turning the US428 after start-up and the OS never seems to find it.

I reloaded the Tascam drivers. No change.

I trashed some preferences. No change.

Zapped the PRAM. No Change.

I'm stumped. Any ideas?

System:

B&W G3 350mhz / OS 9.2 - has OS X on it, but booting into 9 - not Classic / 640M RAM / 7200 rpm 40G internal HD / 7200 rpm 40G external (Firewire) / US428 / Cubase 4.1

OS 9 is on a separate partition (but the same disk) as OS X. Audio goes to the FW HD.

Thanks in advance!

ET

[xingu]

Well, sure - that's always a good first line of action. Remove and re-install the driver and all files associated with it. Do a finder search for Tascam and US-428 (or US428) and trash everything. Then, go back through the installation procedure exactly as the manual has things laid out - from what I remember, the order in which some of the installation steps take place (especially with OMS) are important.

I myself don't even have the latest OS9 driver, but I never had any problems from the start and haven't been back to visit OS9 land since the OSX driver became available (which is a whole nother topic on its own, if you've visited the Tascam forum...).

Hmm, wait - before you do that, are you booting up the 428 before launching Cubasis or after?
Also, are you able to run the system sounds and audio from iTunes/Quicktime etc. through the 428 with no problems? If not, try the above suggestions.