Make the Windows installation media as per the instructions on the download page - you'll need a thumb drive for that. That should be backed up to some external hard drive (if you don't have one, it's a good idea to grab one and do regular backups like this anyway - you never know when you'll have a disk go down on you, and this will get you back and running in minutes once it's replaced). That system drive should have your Windows installation, CbB, etc. Use Macrium to do a complete disk image of your machine's system drive and make a rescue disk. Set those to download overnight or something, shouldn't take more than a few hours on a 12mbps connection. Australian internet hey? Not even once! 😑 I feel your pain - up until recently I had half of that speed on a good day, drop-outs included free of charge too. I'm not massively tech savvy, so I am a bit confused how I would re-install windows 10 as it's a download package. I will certainly give some consideration to that. If you don't have a baseline to work from, any testing you do will just be guesses at the moment. If it turns out to be working correctly with vanilla everything, then you can start looking at a full removal of CbB and reinstall, or some registry/driver alterations for your machine to get the ports working. Restoring your system image should only take a couple of minutes to get you back to where you were before the testing. If THAT all works correctly, then you can start to rule out any hardware issues or compatibility issues between the 16x08, your machine and Windows. That shouldn't take more than an hour or so. If you have an afternoon spare, try doing a complete disk image of your machine, then doing a scorched earth install from scratch of EVERYTHING - Windows, all drivers, CbB and the 16x08 drivers. Some units are just generally junk for everything. From what I've seen around the place, the 16x08 is a bit of a crap-shoot of which unit will work correctly and that seems to be a combination of both the unit and the Windows install - some will work absolutely fine with one install of Windows but not others.

However, another former user from the old SONAR forums also had one and he had no end of trouble with his.

I have a 16x08 and it's generally been pretty good for me, other than the odd pop and click on my woefully outdated laptop I'll be replacing soon.

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