Since I upgraded my computer to P4 it has not been to stable. I have had sort of weird problems. This happened when I was using Pulsar 3.01 and is similar with the new SFP. I tend to think this problem is not pulsar related.
1. The computer freezes and shuts down in the middle of recording or editing
2. Recorded files tend to get pops into them - after I record them (this is wery bizar). So after I record something and open it again the wave files will have corrupted in the meantime (little spikes - clicks (made of boxes when zoomed in to the wave)
I have replaced everything systematically - that is Power supply, MOBO, CPU and RAMBUS.
My setup is following:
Intel P4 1.6 GHz
Abit TH7 II Raid Mobo
512 Mb Rambus memory
Pulsar II + Pulsar II SRB
SB live
Matrox G450 Dual head
Realtek Netcard PCI
60 GB IMB Deskstar on Ide 1
60 GB IBM Deskstar on Ide 2
40 GB IBM Deskstar on IDE 3 (the raid controller)
CD RW and CD ROM on Ide 4
Windows XP in Standard PC mode (not ACPI)
Nuendo 1.53 for recording
If anyone has a clue what is wrong I would be very happy - it would be nice to hear from someone with similar setup!!!
Thorkell
The general instability problem of my DAW
Maybe you have a virus? KLEZ has been spreading and one of the things it does is randomly overwrite parts of files with zeros (0's). Run a virus scan on your drives maybe? (of course don't have this running when you record...) Make sure you're up-to-date on Windows update as well. It could also be that HighPoint controller on your ABIT
hi.
Ive been running a th7 board with my powersampler for a over a year now and it was stable. I just upgraded to SFP 3.1 and so far everything is smooth. Im just trying to firgure some new things out..
Anyhow, i had to deal with many months of headaches to getmy computer that way. I had no clue what was wrong with my machine until i figured out it was my power supply. I used to have two hard drives running until my power supply fried one of the hard drives. You have so much stuff running on your machine that this could be the problem even though you said you already replaced the power supply.
i hope this helps. p4's use a lot of juice..also i do remember there being issues with using that much ram. i have 512meg of ram sitting here but im too afraid to put it back in after the horror i dealt with before i fixed it.
takecare.g
th7 raid w/ p4 1.3ghz
40 gig HD
256 rambus
powersampler
windows 98se
Ive been running a th7 board with my powersampler for a over a year now and it was stable. I just upgraded to SFP 3.1 and so far everything is smooth. Im just trying to firgure some new things out..
Anyhow, i had to deal with many months of headaches to getmy computer that way. I had no clue what was wrong with my machine until i figured out it was my power supply. I used to have two hard drives running until my power supply fried one of the hard drives. You have so much stuff running on your machine that this could be the problem even though you said you already replaced the power supply.
i hope this helps. p4's use a lot of juice..also i do remember there being issues with using that much ram. i have 512meg of ram sitting here but im too afraid to put it back in after the horror i dealt with before i fixed it.
takecare.g
th7 raid w/ p4 1.3ghz
40 gig HD
256 rambus
powersampler
windows 98se
Try not to forget that when IBM built the first PC, they couldn't be bothered to design their own circuits for the integrated chips they used. They used circuits from the standard databook and quite literally bodged it together.
You would have thought hardware designers had learnt their lesson, but two particular vendors,
Creative and Realtek, still continue to make shoddy goods, both of these cards I know personally cause all sorts of random problems. Take them out.
Not only that you have a raid controller enabled ableit just for an extra IDE.
No offense, but you really are just asking for problems, there is a limit to how much a computer will cope with. I' m just trying to save you time, and money
Do you really need interenet on your DAW? Then buy a decent network card.
Why on earth do you need a sblive?
Soundfonts? Find an alternative
Three hard drives & two cdrom drives. All of that stuff requires a 400w quality psu do you have that? Lose one of the harddrives, highpoint also rank on my list of shoddy vendors.
Then reset your bios settings to their default safe settings reinstall the OS, to get rid of the junk the sblive leaves in the registry. (all 5mb of it!)
Then watch your computer purr.
Sorry If I've raved on and on. Just remove those damn needless components.
Best of luck mate.
You would have thought hardware designers had learnt their lesson, but two particular vendors,
Creative and Realtek, still continue to make shoddy goods, both of these cards I know personally cause all sorts of random problems. Take them out.
Not only that you have a raid controller enabled ableit just for an extra IDE.
No offense, but you really are just asking for problems, there is a limit to how much a computer will cope with. I' m just trying to save you time, and money
Do you really need interenet on your DAW? Then buy a decent network card.
Why on earth do you need a sblive?
Soundfonts? Find an alternative
Three hard drives & two cdrom drives. All of that stuff requires a 400w quality psu do you have that? Lose one of the harddrives, highpoint also rank on my list of shoddy vendors.
Then reset your bios settings to their default safe settings reinstall the OS, to get rid of the junk the sblive leaves in the registry. (all 5mb of it!)
Then watch your computer purr.
Sorry If I've raved on and on. Just remove those damn needless components.
Best of luck mate.
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