Mbox 3 pro on Windows 10

[Nbilic]

My mbox 3 pro has had major problems since upgrading to windows 10, the audio will cut out for a period of a time and randomly come back on, over and over again.

[JoelG]

Can you post your full system specs? Are you using the latest driver? Try going through the Windows 8 Optimization Guide and see if that helps. But at the end of the day, as I mentioned above, Windows 10 is not qualified with Avid hardware or software yet.

Joel

[aguehtou]

I'm using windows 10 64 bit. I switched back to the avid driver 1.0.19 and audio doesn't cut anymore. I haven't tried pro tools or cubase yet but it's stable browsing videos

[Nbilic]

Intel i5-2400 @ 3.10GHz
8 gb ram
windows 10 home 64 bit

Protools 8.0.5 LE

[Southsidemusic]

Hi,

LE8 won't run on Windows 10 which is very important.

You need to update to PT12 or downgrade to Win 7 or something.

If you try and install PT8 LE on a Win10 computer you will have major issues and use a lot of your time deleting old LE files as the system may not uninstall all the files.

[Nbilic]

Do you think LE8 will eventually run on windows 10 properly?

Also i'm in the process of installing windows 8 now. Will that work?

[simmosyd]

Originally Posted by aguehtou

I'm using windows 10 64 bit. I switched back to the avid driver 1.0.19 and audio doesn't cut anymore. I haven't tried pro tools or cubase yet but it's stable browsing videos

Thanks a million, I was having the same issues with my Mbox Pro 3, audio just kept dropping on Windows 10.
I simply moved back to the old version of*driver 10.0.19 and bingo, all working perfectly.

I think Avid need to fix this issue considering the most up to date version of their driver says it's compatible with Windows 10 (it's clearly not), yet the previous one which says it is not compatible with Windows 10 (yet is clearly*is).

Talk about a screw up from Avid, I've been trying to fix this for months, would never have fixed this until I read your comments.

So a huge thank you :)

If you are running Windows 10, you must use 10.1.19 (ignore that it doesn't list Windows 10 compatibility) available here: http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/d...ox-Pro-Drivers

[chiloneli]

I have a very important question I have a dell desktop xps 8900 it doesn't have a firewire port so I was wondering if a firewire to usb adapter would work with my mbox pro and computer I don't kno what to do please contact me asap

[mcasey329]

I bought one for my desktop. There are many out there but this is the one I bought.

Startech PCI Express Firewire Card Adapter (PEX1394B3)

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by chiloneli

I have a very important question I have a dell desktop xps 8900 it doesn't have a firewire port so I was wondering if a firewire to usb adapter would work with my mbox pro and computer I don't kno what to do please contact me asap

I have a not very important answer...

There is no such thing as a USB to Firewire (or the reverse adapter). PCs typically need a PCIe Firewire card. You want one with a TI (Texas Instruments) Firewire controller chip.

This whole topic, including the non-existence of USB adapters, and suitable PCIe Firewire cards, has been widely discussed on DUC in the past, you can find all you need to by searching past posts.