Digidesign 002 Rack / Console Windows 7 64bit driver installation

The Digidesign 002 Rack / Console is still a very common audio interface, mainly because of its high quality. The driver installation in Windows 7 though can be a bit tricky. At first you need the correct driver from here http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/download/Digi-002-003-Drivers. Be sure to download the correct driver for your interface. As of now it looks like this:

9.0.8. – latest version for 002 Console

9.0.6. – latest version for 002 Rack

After downloading the driver simply install click the exe file and install them. In most cases the Windows Device Manager will still show you the Digidesign 002 & 003 device with no driver installed. Then you have to do the following;

– open the device manager

– right click the digidesign device

– choose update driver

– search the computer for a driver

– choose for a list of drivers on this computer

– all devices => next

– have disk amd point to this directory C:\Programms\Avid\003 (Console)\Streaming

– select the “Avid00Console.inf” file, select Digidesign 002, ignore all the Windows warnings

– check the device manager again => the device should now be listed at audio,video & gamecontrollers

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Newsflash

(only in german – sorry)

Letzte Woche gab es die erste große Abmahnwelle gegen Streamingnutzer. Bisher ist relativ unklar wie es dazu kommen konnte. Sowohl die technischen als auch rechtlichen Hintergründe gelten bislang als ungeklärt. Eine mögliche Ursache könnte allerdings mangelndes technisches Verständnis der Richter am Kölner Landgericht sein.

Ein schon etwas älterer Artikel in dem die Studie von Paul J. Heald zum Verschwinden von Büchern und Musik durch Copyright analysiert wird. Sehr lesenswert. Die gesamte Studie kann kostenlos heruntergeladen werden.

Die NSA und der britische GCHQ haben offensichtlich auch in Onlinespielen wie World Of Warcraft spioniert. Ich weiß nicht genau, ob ich darüber lachen oder weinen soll.

Windows 8 ist ja bekanntlich das neue Windows Vista. Microsoft hat das inzwischen wohl auch erkannt und verlängert daher den Verkauf von Windows 7 Lizenzen.

Metallica hat ein Konzert in der Antarktis gespielt. Ich dachte erst das sei ein Scherz als ich es im Radio hörte. Wars aber nicht.

Lokalnachrichten: Der neue Chef der Thüringer Staatskanzlei feiert einen zünftigen Einstand, indem er nebenbei (heimlich) Aufsichtsrat bei einer Beratungsfirma bleiben will. Nur ein weiteres Kapitel aus dem Thüringer Politikmoloch.

 

 

Geheimakte 2 startet nicht unter Windows 7 (64bit und 32bit)

(only in german – sorry)

Als ich neulich mal wieder Geheimakte 2 spielen wollte, verweigerte es unter Windows 7 nach der Installation hartnäckig seinen Dienst. Es kam immer die Fehlermeldung, dass es mit Administratorrechten ausgeführt werden muss. Schuld daran, waren die TAGES-Kopierschutztreiber.

Das Problem lässt sich aber glücklicherweise schnell beheben:

Geheimakte 2 ganz normal installieren. Danach die TAGES Treiber über die Links unten oder über http://tagesprotection.com => Drivers herunterladen. WICHTIG – es gibt unterschiedliche Treiber für die 32- und 64bit Versionen von Windows 7. Die Treiber als Administrator installieren (Klick mit der rechten Maustaste auf die Setupdatei und “Als Administrator ausführen”) und danach Geheimakte 2 ganz normal starten.

Viel Spaß !!!

http://tagesprotection.com/5.5/TagesSetup.exe (32bit Windows 7)

http://tagesprotection.com/5.5/TagesSetup_x64.exe (64bit Windows 7)

 

Adaptec AHA 2940 AU SCSI Controller and Epson GT-7000 Scanner on Windows 7 x64

A few months ago I upgraded my girlfriends pc to Windows 7 x64. Sadly it was impossible to find a driver for her 99,- EUR scanner (Belkin somewhat USB).  So it didn´t worked anymore. Since then she bugged me with that situation and last weekend I promised her to find a solution. Luckily I had an old Epson GT-7000 SCSI scanner fooling around and an Adaptec AHA 2940 AU SCSI Controller. I used both in my old Windows XP set up years ago. And I thought that the Epson scanner is too precious to simply threw it away. (And by the way: the Adaptec card is from 1997 and the scanner might be 1 or 2 years older). I still remember that I got it from my uncle and that it was so incredibly fast even compared to modern USB scanners. So why not use this for my girlfriend ?

But…I knew that my solution may have some flaws. Firstly finding Windows 7 compatible x64 drivers for the Adaptec and secondly finding Windows 7 compatible x64 TWAIN drivers. Since TWAIN might have a bit of a brilliant design it is commonly known as the most shitty peace of protocol / API in computers history. Especially the last point didn´t equipped me with a lot of hope.

Today was the day to check it out. I was happy that my quite modern pc at least still features an PCI bus. So I fitted the Adaptec SCSI controller in it, connected the scanner through an pretty old school SCSI connection cable (after all that modern it didn´t require a terminator (and no, this has nothing to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger)) and turned my pc on full of expectation. Well the surprise wasn´t too big that neither Windows itself nor Windows Update found a driver for at least one of the 2 devices.

But good Google and a guy called “Linky”(Thx !!!!) in this thread of Germany´s 3DNow Forum solved my first problem with a customized Windows 7 x64 compatible driver for the Adaptec controller (it reminded me very much of my sound driver odyssey with Windows XP x64). I was skeptical towards this approach but I suddenly changed my mind after watching 2 minutes of fine Windows driver installation. And there it was. The device manager showed a successfully installed SCSI controller AND it had also recognized my Epson GT 7000 scanner. But no driver for this baby. Well no surprise. (By the way for all you nerds out there: the driver is actually an emulation of the Adaptec AIC 7870 SCSI controller. But it works. Who cares ?)

But somehow I knew that I wouldn´t find a working driver for the scanner at all. And I was right. Shitty TWAIN shit. I ended up with a tool called VueScan. I was already familiar with it, cause I tried to get my girlfriends old scanner working with this tool (it failed). But I gave it one more try and HOLY SHIT IT WORKED !!!

I was astonished ! Surprised ! Wow…

And it´s so easy. After the successful installation of the customized Adaptec driver I downloaded the software and installed it, choosing “yes” when it asked me if I have an old scanner with not working drivers attached (well exactly my case). And again after watching 2 minutes of fine Windows driver installation it worked. Unbelieveable. There is one little drawback. The software is really not cheap. For the standard edition you have to invest around 30,- EUR and for the professional you have to invest around 60,- EUR. But on the other hand the author Ed Hamrick must be the master of TWAIN so it´s just fair to help him out a bit.

To help all you guys out on this, I have uploaded the customized Adaptec driver and attached some screens to make you believe !

Download: Adaptec_7870_and_2906_and_2940_driver_for_Windows_7_-_64_Bit.rar

Update 1:

NeO mentioned in the comments, that it also works with the Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI Controller. Thanks a lot !

Update 2:

Chip mentioned in the comments, that is also worked with the CANON DR-2080C SCSI scanner. Thanks a lot !

Systemreparaturdatenträger kann nicht erstellt werden – Falscher Parameter (0x80070057) – Windows 7 Sicherung / Can´t create system rescue disk – wrong parameter (0x80070057) – Windows 7 Backup

—english version below—

Erhaltet ihr folgende Fehlermeldung wenn ihr via Windows Sicherung einen Systemreparaturdatenträger (kann das Wort mal einer für Glücksrad vorschlagen ?) erstellen wollt,

Systemreparaturdatenträger kann nicht erstellt werden – Falscher Parameter (0x80070057)

dann liegt es daran, dass der SPTD Treiber (der die Kommunikation zwischen Windows 7 und eurem CD/DVD Brenner regelt) nicht mehr aktuell ist.

Lösung :

1.) Den neusten SPTD Treiber von http://www.duplexsecure.com/windows7 herunterladen (achtet auf 64bit oder 32bit)

2.) Treiber installieren, Windows neustarten

3.) Sicherung aufrufen => Systemreparaturdatenträger erstellen

4.) Freuen, dass es funktioniert !

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If you receive the following error when trying to create a new system resuce disc within the Windows 7 backup,

Can´t create system rescue disk – wrong parameter (0x80070057)

then your SPTD drivers (it controls the communication between Windows and your CD/DVD burner) is out of date.

Solution :

1.) Download the latest driver from http://www.duplexsecure.com/windows7 (64bit or 32bit depending on your Windows version)

2.) Install the driver and restart Windows

3.) Open the backup menu => create system rescue disk

4.) Smile, cause it works !

Source & Thanks to : http://www.pcwelt.de/forum/windows-7/372788-systemreparaturdatentr-ger-erstellt.html

Hitman – Blood Money on Windows 7 / Windows Vista (32bit & 64bit)

I got my hands on Hitman – Blood Money for a couple of bucks but when I tried to play it, Windows always says that the “msvcr71.dll” is missing.

Here´s the solution :

1.) Download the missing msvcr71.dll from here

2a.) If you have a 32bit Windows (Vista or 7) copy the file to C:\Windows\system32

2b.) If you have a 64bit Windows (Vista or 7) copy the file to C:\Windows\SysWOW64

3.) Run the game and have fun !

Thx to :

http://i.justrealized.com/2009/05/16/how-to-fix-missing-msvcr71dll-problem-in-windows/

Fahrenheit on Windows 7 (32bit & 64bit)

It´s definetly one of the greatest games Atari ever did, but when you try to install it under Windows 7 the installation will fail. The installer will suddenly abort the installation without actually installing the game.

You have to do the following steps to fix this :

1.) Copy the entire content of the Fahrenheit CD into a folder on your hard disk

2.) Download the modified installer (fahrenheit.msi) from here

3.) Replace the original installer with the one from step 2

4.) Install Fahrenheit using setup.exe from the folder on your hard disk

5.) Start the game and enjoy playing !

Thx to several installation instructions :

http://www.winfuture-forum.de/index.php?showtopic=112968

http://forum.computerbild.de/computer-bild-spiele-heft-dvd/fahrenheit-installation-abgebrochen_60121.html

Update :

Some people reported that the instructions above won´t work. I did some investigation and found out that all these instructions only work with Fahrenheit Version 1.1. Luckily there is a patch available updating your Fahrenheit Version from 1.0 to 1.1. Unfortunetaly it´s very hard to find out what version of Fahrenheit you actually own. But you can check out the following :

  • you bought the game before 2008 => then you probably have Version 1.0, download the patch (Fahrenheit_Patch1_1.rar) here
  • you bought the game after 2008 => then you probably have Version 1.1, you should be able to play straight
  • you don´t remember when you bought the game and it won´t work anyway => continue reading…

Tom reported the following in the comments for this article :

tom says:

Thanks for the good instructions. Maybe this helps:
It did not work for me straight away (windows 7). The process hung in the task manager as Rashad said. I had to do two additional steps:

– patch to 1.1 with the offical game patch
– install a patch from gamescopyworld: Fahrenheit v1.1 [EURO] Fixed EXE
(i own the original).

The patch from gamescopyworld is actually a crack and therefore it´s not legal to use it if you don´t own the game (originally). Furthermore you should own a good and up-to-date antivirus software before downloading or trying the crack. Nevertheless the patch makes the game running, so in case you´re unlucky with all the above steps give it a try.

Update 2 – playing Fahrenheit in fullscreen or window mode :

I had some problems with the ingame resolution (1600×1200) on my new 16:9 TFT so I looked for a possibility to play it in a window mode.

To change from fullscreen to window mode or back do the following steps :

  1. Locate the Fahrenheit.ini file in the installation folder of the game on your hard disk (in my case D:\Games\Fahrenheit)
  2. Open the Fahrenheit.ini file with notepad or a (text)editor of your choice
  3. Change line 3 “Fullscreen=1” to “Fullscreen=0” for window mode
  4. OR change line 3 “Fullscreen=0” to “Fullscreen=1” for fullscreen mode
  5. Save the file and exit your editor
  6. Enjoy playing !

Update 3 – Error when using the Installer from the HDD

Bob reported the following when trying to use the Installer from the HDD.

Bob says:

After copying the files to the HD and replacing the installer with the one linked to in the article, I had to create an ISO from the files and mount it before the installer would finish. Running the installer directly from the HD would cause it to error and rollback the installation after creating the desktop shortcut.

Thanks again for the instructions.

God Mode in Windows 7

If you want to have all your system parameters and everything that can be adjusted within Windows 7 in one big folder, then you should create  the following directly on your desktop :

Desktop => New Folder => Name “XYZ” + “.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”

The new folder can have any name you want (in this case it´s “XYZ”) and you need to add this string to the folder name (including the point). When done, the symbol of the folder will change and when you double click it, you have everything you want in one big folder.

Note 1 :

This also works with Windows Vista but several crashes of the explorer have been reported, so use it only carefully.

Note 2 :

If you don´t want to mess up your desktop with a soo long folder name you can also create it in a subfolder on your desktop. But – some people reported crashes, so use it carefully.

proxycfg & netsh winhttp show proxy

Update:

If you use Windows 7 or above the proxycfg command won´t work. Instead you can you netsh with the following syntax:

C:\netsh winhttp show proxy

Howto find out the proxy configuration, if all IE security options are invisible and disabled ?

Good question and the answer took me 2 hours of search on the net. The answer is so damn simple, that I felt a bit annoyed after I found it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830605

example:

C:\>proxycfg

Microsoft ® WinHTTP Default Proxy Configuration Tool Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Current WinHTTP proxy settings under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections\ WinHttpSettings:

Proxy Server(s) : http=???.???.??.? Bypass List : ???.???.??.?