M-Audio Firewire Solo mess again

Remember I recently reinstalled my Windows XP OS? Today I have a need to use my M-Audio Firewire Solo to do some audio work, so I plugged it in my machine. Suddenly the machine just rebooted. And then the following mess happened:

- All USB Devices stopped working (that includes my USB keyboard and mouse)
- The Firewire Solo power light was NOT on.

This happened before. Partly the reason was that I turned on the MacOS side, and it detected the Firewire Solo and updated the firmware. It seems like the firmware update was not completed when I turned of the Mac OS side. I follow the notes I wrote in previous blog (Turn on the Mac OSX side, get the Firewire Solo firmware updated and see the M-Audio light on. Then reboot the machine back to WinXP.) AFter then the system recognize the Firewire Solo and attempted to install driver. However, it was AFTER the Firewire Solo updated that the USB back to normal.

So here's what I learned:

- It's always great to have a PS/2 based mouse and keyboard around. Like today. I may have totally stuck without these PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
- Don't connect the USB keyboard to the USB port on the PCI card. I plugged the wireless adapted to the on board USB connection and things went smooth after then.

However, right now I am still trying to figure out how to change the sample rate of Firewire Solo to 44000Hz, since many of my apps cannot work with 96000 Hz, which is the setting currently on the Firewire Solo adapter.