urgent help please! bluescreen / scope issue

[Music Manic]

Test your RAM.

Has this just begun to appear or is it an immediate problem?

[john interlock]

Test your RAM.

Has this just begun to appear or is it an immediate problem?

it's been intermittent.

was fine for several hours of testing when we first got it up and running...
then started bluescreening and hanging throughout a day of recording guitars with about 3 hours of work in between.
it got a bit worse.... and then I came into the studio and found that by switching from 48k to 44.1 it seemed to clear the issue up. (our mackie d8b was having issues syncing and then playing back.)

I went most of yesterday (about 9 hours), without any bluescreens or crashes. Then towards the end of the session it REALLY started slowing down...
sonar seemed to take forever to render the just recorded tracks.
I figured I should restart and did so... then I started bluescreening again. badly.
I've also found that every now and again we get some spiking from the mackie not syncing correctly to the pulsar.

I done no work at all since 10pm yesterday and this studio time is costing us...

not been able to check the memory yet... any suggestions of programs?

any more thoughts? this is driving me mad.

cheers again guys!
J

[garyb]

if you test the ram(use a program like memtest, you can get it free if you google the name), and it's good, you might try reseating the i/o plate on the card(just be careful it's held in place by 4 plastic screws). i'd also use compressed air to blow out the adat ports if you're using them.

the way to be sure that the problem isn't in the card is to put it in a different computer, be sure that it soesn't share irqs and see if it bluescreens there....

[Music Manic]

Could be a heat problem if you are running it trouble free for that length of time.