OK, everything is now working (am still waiting for the new monitors though). I have to say, the Mackie Control is the best piece of kit I have ever seen - it controls ProTools as well as the Control 24 and its implementation with Sony Vegas is amazing. The jog and shuttle control for controlling video playback is superb and you can switch the faders to control either audio or video mixing, meaning realtime crossfades between shots can be recorded in, in realtime using the desk. This piece of kit is just stunning.
Getting to this stage of actually being able to use the kit has been absolute hell and I hope I don't encounter similar problems again. Last Friday evening, all was working as expected and then suddenly the "Delayed Write Error" message kept coming up for the new 250GB SATAII drive I fitted for AV work. This was worrying as my entire work for audio and video was on this new drive. Upon rebooting, Scandisk did its thing, but to no avail and the message, along with a clattering sound, kept occuring. Upon inspecting the drive in Explorer, the entire file system had gone, along with all of the work. After calming down, I remembered that the original drive which I copied all the work from was still in tact, so thankfully (and very luckily) the work is still in tact.
Another problem(!) was that the old P4 motherboard which was taken out of the main PC died too. Upon refitting it into my second machine's case, nothing would happen, completely dead. The board worked when it was taken out, but not anymore. This is a pity as the second machine, as well as housing backups, has Steinberg's THE GRAND 2 on it (incredible Grand Piano virtual instrument) which is triggered via ProTools on the main machine. Unfortunately, its old PIII processor isn't quite up to running it, so installing this P4 board and chip would have hopefully sorted it out; alas, this is not to be.
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