HELP!

Funktastico · Post by **Funktastico** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 10:50 pm

Sorry, this is non-Pulsar related but I know there's a lot of techies here so maybe someone could help me here...

First of all my system:
WinME, Abit KT7-raid, Duron 800, IBM gxp-75 45gb, Seagate Medalist 6.4gb...

At this point WinME was installed on my IBM drive... I installed Sun's newest JDK and suddenly, on the next reboot, Windows complained something about MSVCRT.dll (Visual C realtime libraries?) being linked to some weird export function that doesn't exist. Internet connection was down, IE crashed every time, ICQ didn't work, nothing really worked that had to do with internet connections.

LAN connection still was ok because I still seemed to be able to connect to my LAN's NT domain and shared drives. I scanned my HDs, reinstalled WinME over the old install but the problem didn't go away as they usually go at that point.

So I reformatted the primary partition on the old Seagate HD and tried to install first WinXP, then Win2K on it, both installers complained the HD is corrupted! I tried formatting to FAT and NTFS in the install program of Win2K and XP but they wouldn't format the drive because "it was corrupt". Formatted it again after a clean boot with a WinME boot-disk, tried again, same thing.

After that I booted with the WinME disk again and installed WinME succesfully on the HD.

It worked fine for a few hours, then I started installing old stuff back again like Pulsar drivers, ICQ, ... suddenly it went freaky again. Scanned the HD and it was full of allocation table errors, file errors, and what not.

Anyone have an idea? Are both my hard drives fucked up or even my motherboard or some other part?

BTW. I did suspect a virus but that wasn't it - scanned everything with F-secure anti-virus and the latest virus definitions and it didn't find anything.

Toni L.
http://www.mp3.com/NativeAlien

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 3:15 am

msvcrt.dll is indeed the C runtime.
Similar mess I only had with SCSI/IDE combination. Maybe it is the RAID-controller with his drivers. I would first check it with the normal Windows DMA drivers and no RAID config. If this is not successful the BIOS must be updated.
So please look for latest BIOS and drivers (chipset and controller). Good luck.
Happy pulsaring
Micha

Funktastico · Post by **Funktastico** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 3:30 am

It worked fine for about half-a-year then suddenly started doing this...so I don't think it's a driver issue... thanks anyway.

Toni L.
http://www.mp3.com/NativeAlien

Funktastico · Post by **Funktastico** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 3:34 am

One more thing, the Seagate drive is connected to the normal ata-66 connector and the IBM is on the extra IDE/Raid connector, no Raid conf. is set up.

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 12:17 am

some more:
try Seatools Disc Diagnostic at
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers
jdk 1.3.1 is stable.
Hope it helps.
Happy pulsaring
Micha

Funktastico · Post by **Funktastico** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 2:53 am

I think I solved it, for now.

Changed Pulsar to another pci slot and installed XP on the IBM drive and it's been working nicely (for almost a day

.

Now soft synths in Sonar are VERY out of sync though, and 24-bit drivers don't work. Any ideas?

Toni L.
http://www.mp3.com/NativeAlien

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 8:42 am

http://www.infinitevortex.com/default.asp?page=v3readme

24 Bit wave drivers aren't available under 2k/Xp..