Apogee Duet makes CPU warm using Leopard

Just bought a Duet yesterday for my 08 MBP - it feels like it's on fire 😟

Called Apogee again. Bare with me and read this whole post so this makes sense...

I need to run my external HDD off of my firewire port while running the Duet at the same time. This is because my Macbook only has one 1394 port. That being said, I asked Apogee if this could be done. They told me the Duet was designed to daisy chain off of a firewire, HDD enclosure.

Apogee also said the reason why my CPU could be heating up is because the Duet powers itself via the firewire port on my computer. Sticking an external HDD in between the computer and the Duet may cause the Duet to get its power from the external HDD power supply rather than power off of the Macbook's firewire port.

I'm waiting on an enclosure in the mail now, so I'll let you all know what happens.

Same problem here. Tried my Duet on both my MBP and my girlfriends MB, both using Leopard. Fan instantly goes to 6000 RPM. I downgraded to Tiger; problem went away. I've used the Duet for months now, no fan problem what so ever! There are new drivers available since I downgraded, not sure if they have fixed the Leopard problem or not.

Do you still have the old driver install package by chance (the one before before May 2008)? There were 2 files in the original. One was for the Duet driver / Maestro Software and the other was a Firewire driver. Please let me know as I would like to try the old Firewire driver...

I've run my Duet off the back of a Lacie for a year now with no issues, first, with Tiger, now with Leopard. Neither the Duet nor MB run especially warm.

s06er wrote:

I need to run my external HDD off of my firewire port while running the Duet at the same time. This is because my Macbook only has one 1394 port. That being said, I asked Apogee if this could be done. They told me the Duet was designed to daisy chain off of a firewire, HDD enclosure.

Apogee also said the reason why my CPU could be heating up is because the Duet powers itself via the firewire port on my computer. Sticking an external HDD in between the computer and the Duet may cause the Duet to get its power from the external HDD power supply rather than power off of the Macbook's firewire port.

If your OS is anything above 10.5.2 you get a prompt saying you don't need that driver when you try to install it.

Stootka

marceldada & stootka - your replies have been most informative and reassuring- Thank you so much! I will post back with my results with the external HDD once it comes in the mail this week.

Hi,

Um, I am not sure, but I will have a look when I have some time.

Great news though! I was sick of Tiger and did an "Archive and install" of Leopard a couple of weeks ago. All I did was to download the most recent drivers for Duet and voila! My fans behave just the way they should! I can now use my Apogee Duet in Leopard!
The fan issue is still on the MacBook using Leopard, but that fan seem to go max even if the only app running is FireFox... But I'm using my MBP for music, so I won't bother.

Good luck guys!