Driver install not being recognised RME Fireface800 S/card

Hi

I upgrade to W8 from W7 last night (starting to regret the move but that's another pickle).

My soundcard was working but intermittently I would get a noise which in W7 meant an application had crashed the soundcard, quite rare normally when 2 apps are using it on an ASIO driver in Cubase with a third party wrapped program.

Firstlyt I unistalled the driver and switched off the unit then rebooted.
I searched the C drive to remove any driver software as I several replicated some old and some new from previous updates.

I now have the latest driver from RMEs website and by updating driver, as the driver has no install setup program, W8 is reporting the drivers unrecogonised. I now have no sound what so ever.

I need help please. I have installed drivers manually for years and have a terrible feeeling this might be to do with driver signing which means I am out of my depth.

Also any easy rollback methods I want to escape 8 I think for the time being

Please help

Thank you.


ref

RME User Forum / Windows 8 x64 FF800 issue

I have a Sonar X2 recording studio. I've seen posts of upgrade problems with some devices on the Sonar forums. I have a Roland Octa-Capture and until Roland updated the drivers for Win 8 users were reporting problems using the Win 7 drivers.


The gearslutz forum would be a better place to try and get help than this Win 8 forum if RME can't help. Gearslutz.com

I will not be upgrading my DAW system to Win 8. I'm not convinced Win 8 is all that great yet. I have my test system upgraded but that is all for the time being.