Hi Dave,

I'm presently reading through the above post and trying to understand your problem so that I can help. Could you please confirm that what I've got below is correct.

1. At 10:37 a.m. you started up BIAB. However it wasn't until 10:58 a.m. that you had the BIAB start-up screen. That is, it took 20 minutes for the "2013 BIAB" start-up screen to appear.

2. After the start-up screen appeared, a box popped up and asked you about associating file types in Explorer. Is this correct?

    MY THOUGHTS AT THIS STAGE: The above behaviour is most strange. At the moment, I find myself thinking that it sounds like the BIAB set-up program has been run instead of BBW.EXE (the file that starts BIAB).

    As an experiment, please try the following. Firstly, completely shut your computer down and restart it. (Do not simply 'suspend' it. Your computer must be fully shutdown and restarted to clear all memories.) Now go to the BIAB folder (probably c:\bb), scroll through the list of files until you find BBW.EXE and then double-click on that file to start BIAB. Does BIAB start normally doing it this way?

3. After the "do you want to associate file types" box, you next get a box that asks about registering songs.

4. Next you load up a jazz tune and then you get the a box that pops up and says it cannot open the wav file.

    MY THOUGHTS NOW: I'm not quite sure how to interpret points 3 and 4. Did you render a song and create a wav file or did you experiment with 'Performance Tracks'? To be honest, I'm not exactly sure under what conditions BIAB will ask for a wav file. Maybe someone with more experience will chime in and help here.

5. After all the above, you went into the Audio and Midi settings and set-up ASIO as your default driver. To be specific, you selected ASIO for you Audiobox device.

    MY THOUGHTS AT THIS POINT: Using ASIO might be the issue. I suggest that until you get BIAB working, stay with the MME driver. This is the friendliest driver for Windows.

6. The computer started to behave strangely. You unsuccessfully tried to start BIAB multiple times using the BIAB icon.

    MY THOUGHTS: It sounds like the BBE.EXE program has not fully shutdown. Next time this happens,
    a) Use CTRL+ALT+DEL,
    b) Select 'Task Manager'
    c) Select the 'Processes' tab
    d) Scroll down the list of programs that are running until you find BBW.EXE
    e) Select BBW.EXE
    f) Press the "End Process" button on the lower right side of the 'Task Manager' dialogue box.

Are points 1 - 6 that I have listed above correct?

Also, do you run BIAB from the USB drive or is it installed on your computer's hard drive?

Regards,
Noel

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