There is definitely a way to get it to run though (because I’m still currently using the M2 as my audio interface). I remember the error you’re mentioning, and getting very frustrated that it was losing connection during the updater. Jeeze, this is me remember 2 years back now and I wish I remembered more clearly what I had to do for you. If you have such a motherboard, you can use the drivers provided by Realtek. 168.6MB - Freeware - Audio chipsets from Realtek are used in motherboards from many different manufacturers. Since the M2 takes a while to turn on, and sort of “boot up” i think i did something along those lines to give it time to be restart fully before continuing in the process. mbox 2 usb family drivers More Realtek High Definition Audio Driver. I want to say I did something odd like the SECOND the Mbox restarts I used the VirtualBox pause command to pause it, and then hopped in the VM’s settings and reminded the VM that the Mbox was connected.

I want to say it’s something like the updater restarts the Mbox, and by restarting it, VirtualBox loses connection with it for a moment, and then the Mbox updater fails to continue the update process.

I was able to update to version 1.43 by installing windows XP on a VMware. Oh this sounds really familiar! I think i may have had to do something odd to get around it. How to upgrade the firmware of an old MBox 2 so it will work in Linux.

Driver for mbox 2 windows 10