Windows XP installation for the M-Audio MobilePre USB

Make sure the MobilePre USB is NOT connected to the computer and no application is open before beginning the installation!

Depending on the “Hotfixes” and “Security Updates” installed on your system, the initial Driver Release for the MobilePre for WindowsXP might not install correctly. Please make sure to download and install the updated driver for the MobilePre USB from www.m-audio.com. In the field “Select Product”, select the “MobilePre USB”. In the field “Any”, select “Windows XP”. Click “Submit”. Click on the Filename “MobilePre_1xxx_web.exe” to download the driver. Make sure to save it to your desktop.

1) Double-click on “MobilePre_1xxx_web.exe” to run the M-Audio MobilePre Setup program.

2) This wizard will guide you through the installation process. CAREFULLY READ the displayed instructions – click the “Next” button for each screen once you have read and understood the instructions.

3) (*) A screen stating that “The Software you are installing has not passed Windows Logo testing…” will be displayed at various points during this installation. Please make sure to click “Continue Anyway” each time this screen pops up. (More Information about this at the end of this guide).

4) Select if you want to “Enable digital CD audio for CD/DVD drives” and “Enable DMA transfer mode for CD/DVD drives”. These settings are necessary if you want play Audio CDs from your computer’s CD-ROM drive using the MobilePre USB. Then click “Next”.

5) When prompted, connect the MobilePre USB to your computer’s USB port.

6) Windows’ “Found New Hardware Wizard” will start up and guide you through the rest of the installation. CAREFULLY READ the instructions displayed on this screen. Press the “Next” button on each screen once you have read and understood the instructions. (It is not necessary to change any of the settings in the “Found New Hardware Wizard”.)

7) Click “Finish” when the “Found New Hardware Wizard” informs you that “The wizard has finished installing the software for…” the MobilePre USB.

8) In the Background, the computer will start copying the necessary files for all the components of the MobilePre USB. You can follow the progress by looking at the small display in the right lower corner of the screen (around the area where you see the clock). The process will be done once “Found New Hardware Wizard. Your new hardware is installed and ready to use” will be temporarily displayed here.

9) After the “Found New Hardware Wizard” is done, you will be back to the “M-Audio MobilePre USB Setup” screen that prompts that the “M-Audio MobilePre Installed Successfully”. Click “Next”.

10) Unless you chose to modify the settings for your CD-ROM/DVD drive in Step 4 of this guide, you can click “Finish” to start using the MobilePre USB. If you did modify the settings, you will be asked to restart the computer. Click “Finish” and your computer will restart automatically and the MobilePre USB will be ready to be used once the Computer is started up again.

(*) The message “The Software you are installing has not passed Windows Logo testing…” is nothing you need to be worried about. We wrote the drivers specifically for Windows XP and they will work just fine with your system. The message basically just means that Microsoft (Windows) did not yet test the drivers by themselves.

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