completly ********* not happy again

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 6:51 am

As I said not so long ago in this forum, have lust for live, but at the moment its a bit difficult for me, The end of last year a got a lot shit over me.Trying to be possitive, because I have this great studio at home.But there the problem starts....since this f*ck-ups happend to me I can't seem to get this system stable again,I have not changed anything in my set-up but my computer does'nt seem to agree.
What I tryed is changing all ADAT cables- even the S/TDM cables, but I'm keep on getting strang messages like "unexpected dsp overload" "no conection between pulsar2(0) check S/TDM cable and then I'm losing word clock (see the turning scope icon).the most frustrating thing is that sometimes it works ok for a hole day and then suddenly the next day , same shit again.
yes I reinstalled everyting,
unlike a lot of you outthere I'm a total nitwit on computers, I just wanna make music.
again when its running ok, I think SFP is one of the nicest things around ....but now I'm starting to get in a depression .
I spend a lot off money on CW (51 Activation Keys)thats a real nice bike!(an other hobby of mine)

regards to all you happy people out there
Terranova- Amsterdam.

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petal · Post by **petal** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:01 am

Perhaps you should check if all you cards are fitteng correctly in there slots. Perhaps try to take them out and put them in again, incase of corrosion on the connections which happens because of the oxygyn in the air and such. The same thing goes for the cable between multiple CW-cards.

Well at least it's worth a try.

Thomas

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:29 am

I´ve got a similar miracle in the past.
My Pulsar I works without any problems on 44.1 kHz and not in 48 or 96 kHz. At those higher resolutions the Pulsar didn´t got a sync, it reloads the project any three seconds or so (the rotating icon). Sometimes it works for several minutes or hours.
Then I exchanged my power supply with a more powerfull one and everything works perfect.

Maybe this can help?

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:30 am

Also check temperature, try working with the case open for example.

I had those problem all the times before. Since, i installed a fan blowing directly on DSP, never got that error message back.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 12:14 pm

all worth checking(as per above):
1. clean all contacts with a good isobutane or 95% or purer alchohol.

2.what IS your power supply?

3.proper ventilation?what's the temp?as suggested,open the case...

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:09 pm

an open case I all ready have.
the problem with taking out the cards and cleaning them is: all connections 10x adat cable's 3x that other connection, and as you can gues, all behind and far to reach. its gonna take me an other day! and that in the state I am.

thanks anyway for your support.

Terranova-Amsterdam

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 2:10 am

Be strong virtualstudio.
Sometimes life is not fair, a good friend of mine had to wait over three month until his system runs perfect.

Try to borrow a new stronger Power Supply and test it, maybe you don´t need to clean all connections, I never done it and I have my cards over two years now.

Best wishes.

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 12:52 pm

On 2003-06-03 03:10, ChrisWerner wrote:

Try to borrow a new stronger Power Supply and test it, maybe you don´t need to clean all connections, I never done it and I have my cards over two years now.

Best wishes.

Can I just put that in place of the old one or do I have to make changes?
regards
Terranova

Post by **garyb** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:42 am

you can just exchange it.

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:16 am

thanks,
an other question the more powerfull the better? here in the shop they have 350 watt and 400watt(Aopen).the 350 is ultraquiet they don't say that from the one 400watt.

thanks again
Terranova-Amsterdam

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:01 am

350 should be enough I think,or?
I´m not a hardware Guru but I have 350Watt too and it feeds 3 Vents, two Pulsars, two CD Drives, two Hardrives and all works.
Good luck, I hope this is the solution for your problem.

Submarine · Post by **Submarine** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:14 pm

Put the Luna away...

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:25 pm

even when I don't use luna, wich is in other computer anyway, I still have the problems. Although today is one of those day's everything goes fine!:-)but anyway can you motivate why I should?

regards

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marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:49 pm

Sorry to insist, get a turbo charge fan, just to try, and blow on the dsp card... I'm almost sure it is heat... Even with case open, if air doesn't flow, it's still too hot...

At least try... blow DIRECTLY on it... cool it real good...

And load DSP to 99%

I bet it will never crash

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 4:12 am

It seems Marcuspocus was right(again!)! After cleaning everything and put two new fans everything is working o.k. for about three days now. I did't change the power supply yet but wil do that soon, to be on the safe side and make the system as stable as posible.

thanks again everybody,I really would no know where I was without you guy's,(probably sold these things and riding around on my new bike)
no just kidding .GREAT STUFF !!
LOVE YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE!

TERRANOVA AMSTERDAM

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 4:28 am

I just finished the message above,want to play some music from the forum and quess what same shit again.!!!now I gonna buy a power supply if that don't work the whole lot is for sale!!

love you anyway
Terranova Amsterdam

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 5:06 am

On 2003-06-02 07:51, virtualstudio wrote:
As I said not so long ago in this forum, have lust for live, but at the moment its a bit difficult for me, The end of last year a got a lot shit over me.Trying to be possitive, because I have this great studio at home.But there the problem starts....since this f*ck-ups happend to me I can't seem to get this system stable again,I have not changed anything in my set-up but my computer does'nt seem to agree.
What I tryed is changing all ADAT cables- even the S/TDM cables, but I'm keep on getting strang messages like "unexpected dsp overload" "no conection between pulsar2(0) check S/TDM cable and then I'm losing word clock (see the turning scope icon).the most frustrating thing is that sometimes it works ok for a hole day and then suddenly the next day , same shit again.
yes I reinstalled everyting,
unlike a lot of you outthere I'm a total nitwit on computers, I just wanna make music.
again when its running ok, I think SFP is one of the nicest things around ....but now I'm starting to get in a depression .
I spend a lot off money on CW (51 Activation Keys)thats a real nice bike!(an other hobby of mine)

regards to all you happy people out there
Terranova- Amsterdam.

[ This Message was edited by: virtualstudio on 2003-06-09 05:14 ]

I haven't read all the replies here, but I recently had similar error-messages after installing an additional Pulsar2.
What solved the problem was mooving my Pulsar2 to the 1st PCI slot (if your 1st pci slot is sharing an IRQ with some other device than a creamware card, moove it to the next slot).
The only thing to remember is that Pulsar2 likes to be the 1st in a chain of creamware cards, someone suggested it was a timing issue for me and that I should moove the Pulsar2 to be the 1st creamware card, and it worked.

I see your problem was solved also, but others might still be interested in what solved it for me

[ This Message was edited by: aMo on 2003-06-09 06:08 ]

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:50 am

On 2003-06-09 06:06, aMo wrote:

I haven't read all the replies here, but I recently had similar error-messages after installing an additional Pulsar2.
What solved the problem was mooving my Pulsar2 to the 1st PCI slot (if your 1st pci slot is sharing an IRQ with some other device than a creamware card, moove it to the next slot).
The only thing to remember is that Pulsar2 likes to be the 1st in a chain of creamware cards, someone suggested it was a timing issue for me and that I should moove the Pulsar2 to be the 1st creamware card, and it worked.

I see your problem was solved also, but others might still be interested in what solved it for me

[ This Message was edited by: aMo on 2003-06-09 06:08 ]

well for a moment I thought so but same problems are back and I have three times pulsar2 so wich one is the most important one?

Terranova-Amsterdam
just now get the message "there is no STDM connection from pulsar2(board 0)to pulsar2(board1) please chec STDM cable connections.

the hardware will no longer......etc.etc.

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:24 am

Hmm.. strange.. do you have both stdm cables installed?
Maybe having 3 Pulsar2's requires 2 stdm cables.. (there are two spaces for them on each card..)

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:36 am

yes I have like I said, if you read the thread,sometimes its ok for about a hole day
and after I put in the fans even three days.
now a restarted and it doesn't give no error messages so for now its ok just see how long?
thanks anyway
Terranova Amsterdam