747_727 Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Recently, several members of the Russian http://www.player.ru/talk/ forum (including myself) discovered that their RH1s take ages to upload SP. A full SP disc took 50-100 minutes to upload. Yesterday, a member named fsw discovered that this occurs after plugging in an older NetMD unit to the computer you are using for RH1 uploads, and found out that removing all NetMD drivers and plugging the RH1 in again solves the problem. I'll expand on this a bit more. The problem seems to be caused by some conflict between the driver for the "fast" RH1 (NETMD052.sys), and drivers for older "slow" models (NETMDUSB.sys, NETMD031.sys, and NETMD033.sys), which are designed for NetMD downloading only. If you plug in an older unit, it installs its driver, which then doesn't allow the RH1 to upload at full speed. The complete solution is the first five steps of the solution to the "Walkman device detection issue", which I posted before. I'll repeat the five steps here, with an update to Step 1, which is absolutely essential:Disconnect any ATRAC devices from your PC and close SonicStage. Restart your computer.Go to Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables.Under the "User variables for [your username]" field, press the New... button, and create the variable (exactly as shown, without quotation marks): "devmgr_show_details", set it equal to 1, press OK, press the New... button again, then create the "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices" variable, and also set it equal to 1 and press OK. Press OK again to save the variables and exit the window.Go to Device Manager, and enable the View->Show hidden devices option.Find and remove all "phantom" (semi-transparent) instances of "Net MD", "Sony USB Device" (in Universal Serial Bus controllers), "SONY Hi-MD WALKMAN USB Device" (in Disk drives), and "Generic volume" (in Storage volumes). Do not remove any Generic volumes which are not semi-transparent - these are your hard drives!!!Then plug in your RH1 with an SP disc inside, it will install its driver, and upload at full speed again. And avoid plugging in older units to the same computer again. Can someone let me know what you put in the box where it says" set it equal to 1" I've been trying to clear all the drivers but in not sure what to enter on the box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747_727 Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 1 Thanks mate. So you just enter 1 in the box. I did try that earlier but couldn't get the whole process to work so I could find all the drivers. I will try it again when in next on my pc. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 One more thing: when you are done, install the newest download from the downloads section entitled Use it instead of any other driver you may have configured for your 780. That way you'll never have to do the device removal step again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747_727 Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Thanks I will give that a try. It's driving me mad not being able to transfer anything to my md recorder. Is it best to use sonicstage 4.3 that I've just installed or can I go back to openmg. 2.2 as I find that much easier to use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 You absolutely do not want any version of SS before 4.3. Best with the one on our board, too. Make sure you use the newest driver I described above. The 4.3 install will either install NO driver for your 780, or the old one, which you really do not want, having just gotten rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747_727 Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Ok thanks. I have installed the version of 4.3 that I downloaded on here. I will try and removed all the drivers and then install the one you said to try on here and I will see how I get on. I hope I get it working as it worked fine for years til It crashed when using my new mds-je780 deck. Do you think it's the deck drivers that's the problem as it worked fine on my little personal recorder? But that's not working either at the moment though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 You might have to do the extra step of removing all the oem.inf drivers too. The way to do this is to search in the (hidden) windowsinf directory looking for files oem??.inf and containing the text NetMD. These are copies of the inf files of previously installed NetMD units. (you can check by opening each of them with notepad). When you're done, be sure to reboot Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747_727 Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Oh right thanks. Where can i find the windows inf directory? I'm not very up on this kind of stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Where I said - windowsinf The only trick is that directory is hidden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747_727 Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 So will a search for inf files on my c drive find the files needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted March 2, 2013 Report Share Posted March 2, 2013 Indeed, but you need to make sure in Folder options that Show Hidden files etc is selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747_727 Posted March 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 I've follows the instructions on how to remove all old drives and I have downloaded the new one but I'm not sure how to install it can anyone help please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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