Micromega MyDac and Windows XP

How do you connect your DAC to your PC?

Via a USB A/B cable as intended. During installation of the driver, you are asked to disconnect and reconnect the DAC. This is where the program seems to fail. It doesn't recognize and configure the DAC (I think) although Windows knows it's there as I can choose it as my output device (alongside options for Dragonfly and my soundcard).

So, let me get this straight...you call the Micromega a "big improvement" but you cannot install it?

Get a Mac and all your probs will be solved.

Perhaps you need to disable your virus protection and firewall?

During installation of the driver, you are asked to disconnect and reconnect the DAC. This is where the program seems to fail.

When you reached that point, before disconnecting the DAC did you check to see if there was a "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray area (at the lower right of the screen), and if so, if an entry corresponding to the DAC appeared when you clicked on that icon? If there was, that entry should have been clicked before disconnecting the DAC.

Also, the instructions here refer to connecting the DAC when prompted during the installation process, not to disconnecting it and then reconnecting it. Sometimes driver software has to be installed before Windows "sees" the associated hardware. Try uninstalling the DAC in Device Manager, then shutting down the computer, rebooting with the DAC disconnected, then re-doing the driver installation with the DAC only being connected after the prompt to connect it appears.

Regards,
-- Al