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From: AndyW on 30 Sep 2006 02:57 Hi All, I hinted in another thread that I had some computer wierdness going on for a couple of weeks(after almost a year of almost perfect stability)...competely reproducible hard lockups that seemed tied to my soundcard or SONAR.(I only had two lockups in a three week period outside of SONAR that I couldn't eliminate my soundcard drivers as being the issue). I added RAM(thinking it was SONAR running out of RAM that was the issue...this ended the "memory error" on projects over about 1.4GB so still a net gain). More RAM didn't fix it. I tried using the onboard soundcard to eliminate my pro cards as the issue...still could product a lockup in S4,S5 and S6 on multiple projects in about 10 minutes max. Tonight I think I finally got it...turns out a few weeks ago I installed the AMD Dual Core Optimizer update. I didn't use SONAR for several days afterwords and forgot about it. The good news is that going through all this troubleshooting made me streamline my DAW setup(turned off a number of useless hardware and software features). So far so good...I've been playing back different projects in S6 for about 3 hours now...perfectly stable. I think I'll attempt to record some guitar tracks tonight as the final stress test. Unless I find out something else...DON'T INSTALL THE DUAL CORE OPTIMIZER!! (I am SO glad it wasn't my DSPF's...) -- Best, Andy www.soundclick.com/andyw
From: kitekrazy on 30 Sep 2006 11:59 AndyW wrote: > Unless I find out something else...DON'T INSTALL THE > DUAL CORE OPTIMIZER!!< I found that you shouldn't install any of AMD's software apps for any of their processors. I had the same problem with my 754. >(I am SO glad it wasn't my DSPF's...) > Are they the Yamaha DSPFs? If so what are your board specs?
From: AndyW on 30 Sep 2006 15:13 On Sat 30 Sep 2006 05:59:17a, kitekrazy entered the battlespace and released the precision guided munition news:pvwTg.7023$GR.687(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net into the authorized target cakewalk.audio and created the following frag pattern ->: >> Unless I find out something else...DON'T INSTALL THE >> DUAL CORE OPTIMIZER!!< > > I found that you shouldn't install any of AMD's software apps for any > of their processors. I had the same problem with my 754. The dual core hotfix last year worked fine. Both the AMD and the MS one so I had confidence this one would be OK...it looks like I was likely wrong. > >>(I am SO glad it wasn't my DSPF's...) >> > > Are they the Yamaha DSPFs? If so what are your board specs? Yes. I assume you mean my motherboard not the DSPF rev? The motherboard is an Asrock 939dual-SATA2, BIOS rev 2.20. I have 2 DSPF's and an AX-16 in the PCI slots. I have 4GB of corsair ram, a Sapphire Radeon x1800XT PCI-E video card in the x16 slot(did have an AGP x800XT until about 2 months ago..having both video card slots was a big selling point for me) I've had this setup since last November. -- Best, Andy www.soundclick.com/andyw
From: kitekrazy on 30 Sep 2006 22:52 AndyW wrote: >> >>Are they the Yamaha DSPFs? If so what are your board specs? > > > Yes. I assume you mean my motherboard not the DSPF rev? The > motherboard is an Asrock 939dual-SATA2, BIOS rev 2.20. I have 2 DSPF's > and an AX-16 in the PCI slots. I have 4GB of corsair ram, a Sapphire > Radeon x1800XT PCI-E video card in the x16 slot(did have an AGP x800XT > until about 2 months ago..having both video card slots was a big selling > point for me) I've had this setup since last November. > What chipset is on your board? I'm surprised your Yamaha DSPFs are actually working on that system.
From: Ted Perlman on 1 Oct 2006 02:08
<This is the first significant issue I've ever had with AMD processors...> One is too many for me. -- Regards, Ted Perlman Producer-Arranger-Composer-Guitarist ted(a)tedperlman.com www.tedperlman.com |