Garageband has detected a midi timeout

Garageband takes a long, long time to open and then when it does, I get this error message about midi timeout. Garageband eventually does open, but it says that there are no Apple loops installed. What's going on?

SOLVED; Found Some digidesign stuff in /library/audio (system library -- I had deleted all of the audio drivers in the user library.
Still doubt that I can use my M-Box with GB, but that's OK, I can just use Audacity & then import the tracks into GB or just the opposite.
I should have read the posts listed in the right hand column.
Cheers,
carl

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Guys,
I could not find any solution on apple's blog so far, so considering that I just found the solution to this problem I wanted to share it here so if people in the future face the same stuff, they don't need to go around like I did all night long!!
Thanks to George Leger III who posted on below link:
(http://www.logic-users-group.com/forums/showthread.php?p=27468)
I got the MIDI TIMEOUT issue all of a sudden while I was using Logic Pro 9.1.5 connecting my Apogee GIO and my Casio keyboard at the same time.
I am running OS 10.7 (Lion)
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I tried to remove all the Apogee GIO drivers and Plug In (I even removed the Apogee Gio.app).
My Casio model does not need any driver, so I guess it's running by using some default drivers (I only found EmagicUSBMIDIDriver.plugin but I don't want to touch this).
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I will try to install again the Apogee GIO drivers later...Hopefully this error will not persist!
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Hi All,
I know this has been flagged before as a known issue but I cant see a specific answer based on my set up.
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" LogicPro has detected a possible conflict between one or more third party midi or audio drivers "
Background :
I have two macs, a macbook pro and a mac pro. On my macbook pro ( older system ) I have both Logic 7 & Logic Studio, On my macpro I only have Logic Studio.
I had a completed track on Logic 7, when trying to open in logic 8 I got the mentioned error, But when I copied the track to my new mac pro system i got the same error again, the mac pro is a recent buy and a fresh install.
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