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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18197 Location: Durham, NC
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:15 am Post subject:
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Mark. Don't panic. I'm going to drive down to Tennessee. See you on Friday and I'll see if I can fix it. It's only 550 miles. _________________ --Howard
my music and other stuff |
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Kassen
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Joined: Jul 06, 2004 Posts: 7678 Location: The Hague, NL
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:37 am Post subject:
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Mohoyoho wrote: | No, this is not demo ware. These are legit copies. I could play a wav file on media player or Sonar, and every 10 secs. I hear a click or tiny pop. It also happens when I record.
Howard, what's with the mismatch? How do I check for that or change it? |
Have a look at the elaborate view in task manager that shows all processes. I bet there is some sort of periodic usage spike, likely CPU from a high-priority process. I bet that process will ave something to do with networks.
You might also want to look at how non-audio processes that need to work in realtime behave in order to rule out that it's the audio engine itself and not cpu usage. _________________ Kassen |
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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DES
Joined: Feb 28, 2003 Posts: 794 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:
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You might want to check your video acceleration settings and kick it back a notch... Also - you might want to try and update your video drivers. Video cards have been known to cause audio problems (steeling bus time).
What kind of sound card are you using? If it is a USB based card - make sure that power management is turned OFF on the USB ports. You do this by going to the control panel/system/hardware/ settings and left clicking on the USB HUB - look under power management and turn off the ability for the comptuer to turn the port off.
Can't really think of anything else that hasn't already been said without knowing the card type...
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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bbbodie
Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Posts: 29 Location: PNW in the US
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:51 am Post subject:
Re: I can't take it anymore! Too many glitches! Subject description: My PC just freezes up intermitently too much |
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opg wrote: | One idea I had was to simply upgrade to 1GB of memory, but this problem seems to weird to warrant that. Any ideas on where to start (besides throwing it out the window)? |
Ok, here's the word from Redmond, WA (yes, I work in the bowels of the software giant...shhhh...it's a secret ...) run MSConfig at the Start>Run prompt.
First - Run a Checkpoint in System Restore
Second - go to the Startup Tab and turn off everything you don't need...if you're not sure, turn it off
Third - Reboot
Try FL...if you're not hitting hangs...you're good to go, if you are, then it's not service related, but disk related...in that case defrag the disk.
Write me directly via PM if you have questions, I'll be in office about 11am.
One note, you will be prompted on reboot that you made changes, do you want to change back? I usually click the "don't show this again" box as I am well aware that I made changes. Most of the time, folks have way too many TSR's, services and unnecessary little packages running in the background.
Bodie
Make Some Noize (MSN) Studios _________________ Quadzilla, 12Gb, 3 Tb, Win7
PTHD 9 &
iMac and MacBook Pro, 4Gb, .5 Tb, OSX 10.6.4
Logic 9, Cubase 5, Finale 2009
Moog Voyager, Phatty, Liberation, Taurus, Mini
Nord Wave, Electro2, G2X
Roland AX
DSI Polyevolver, Prophet 08
Arp 2600s & Odys
Studio 100m
Virus
over 40 FX pedals
http://electro-music.com/gallery2/main.php/v/BodieMax/
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Uncle Krunkus
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Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 4761 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:26 am Post subject:
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Do a Ctrl+Alt+Del and see how many processes are running. I like to keep it down to about 20 max. Then click on the CPU heading to sort by cycles. System Idle Process should be top of the list, if it's not then take note of what is. That is your main culprit for a CPU hog.
On another line of attack, did you build the computer yourself? If so, what motherboard does it have, and have you installed the latest IDE drivers? (for a VIA board they are the VIA Hyperion 4in1 drivers, or something along those lines) Windows will run okay without installing the latest ones, but if you never installed them at all, (heaps of builders forget this) your IDE interface can get severely weird at some point down the track for no apparent reason.
Also, the other hard drive you put in, is it formatted as an NTFS drive or a FAT32. If it's FAT32 re-format it. XP really hates having one of each. _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there. |
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jksuperstar
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 2503 Location: Denver
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:
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FSAutoStart...your friend!
This is like bbbodie's comment, but it's a 3rd party utility that does this....but not so "permanently". This tool will shutdown all those TSRs, defrag your memory (not disk), *then* run your audio programs. At the end of everything, it can restart those TSRs if you so desire, or reboot your machine. This allows you to have a few things running (like a secure finger print sensor, laptop camera, wireless network, etc), but when you want to run audio, it cleans everything up. This allows me to use my laptop for business and pleasure, and have it mostly optimized for BOTH. I know, everyone recommends having a separate machine for audio only, but I simply won't pay for two laptops just for this luxury.
I use it to kill all my TSRs, kill windows explorer, then start ableton live, midiox, and Pd. Since it's a laptop, some of the other things I kill are screensaver, auto-updates, etc. |
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bbbodie
Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Posts: 29 Location: PNW in the US
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:32 am Post subject:
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jksuperstar wrote: | FSAutoStart...your friend! Th is allows me to use my laptop for business and pleasure, and have it mostly optimized for BOTH. I know, everyone recommends having a separate machine for audio only, but I simply won't pay for two laptops just for this luxury. |
That's what two hard drives are for.
for the price of one extra hard drive for your laptop, you pull out the music drive to do business on the business drive. Most folks haven't gotten savvy to this $200 bonus. I have my Inspiron laptop setup with Vista and all the goodies for work, and then when I'm done for the day, I pull the drive and plug in XPSP2 with all my music software for laptop music work.
I also have a dedicated system at home that was built just for music and has none of the extras, but if it's a laptop, then just buy the extra drive, spend the extra 4 to 6 hours configuring software, and now you have a worry free setup.
Of course your mileage may vary
Bodie
Make Some Noize (MSN) Studios
Redmond, Washington _________________ Quadzilla, 12Gb, 3 Tb, Win7
PTHD 9 &
iMac and MacBook Pro, 4Gb, .5 Tb, OSX 10.6.4
Logic 9, Cubase 5, Finale 2009
Moog Voyager, Phatty, Liberation, Taurus, Mini
Nord Wave, Electro2, G2X
Roland AX
DSI Polyevolver, Prophet 08
Arp 2600s & Odys
Studio 100m
Virus
over 40 FX pedals
http://electro-music.com/gallery2/main.php/v/BodieMax/
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opg
Joined: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 954 Location: Berkeley, CA, US
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:
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So, I increased the SWAP file and put it on my second hard drive, and this didn't really seem to solve the problem. It was good at first, but only lasted about 5 minutes or so. However, I didn't increase the virtual memory size to 1.5x or 2x my 512MB of memory. I'll increase that, but I really agree with Mosc- if you finding yourself using it, it's better to upgrade to 1GB.
FIRST, though, I will check out that link [url]www.musicxp.net [/url], which had some great tips - some stuff I definitely hadn't thought of. There was one (almost embarrassing) option that I should of switched: I have it running for programs instead of background services.
I'll cross my fingers and make all the suggested changes tonight! _________________ One Player Game | OPG on SoundCloud |
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Uncle Krunkus
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Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 4761 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:
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The 1.5X RAM for your virtual memory was the rule up to WIN98SE, but for XP on newer machines you should use 2GB minus your RAM. Don't forget you need to set this amount as both the Minimum and Maximum swap file sizes. The idea is that you're tying it down so Windows can't jump in and resize it, which it does way too often otherwise.
It's good to have it on a different hard drive, but even better if it's on a separate IDE channel. ie; don't have the two drives as the primary master and primary slave. Make one the primary master, and the other one the secondary master. Put CD/DVD drives as the slaves, cos they're used a lot less often.
I also recommend visiting tweakguides.com and getting a copy of the Tweak Guides Tweaking Companion by Koroush Ghazi.
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
This guy has spent years researching how to get the most out of every version of windows, and has compiled it into a separate tweaking companion for each one. The newest XP one is a 1.9M pdf which covers everything, and I mean everything! I know the site seems very games orientated, but the info, which is about controlling exactly how your Windows install works, is just as important for professional audio users.
You can dip into the guide, try out some things, do the lot from start to end, look up something specific, whatever you like. It's very well written.
Good luck,
And keep us posted about your progress. _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there. |
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opg
Joined: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 954 Location: Berkeley, CA, US
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:01 am Post subject:
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Thanks to the tips on that website, my computer is acting a bit better! There are no long pauses when I load VST effects, and anytime there is a delay in opening a folder, it's usually because there's a hell of a lot of samples in it.
So, good deal. The only thing that scared me was this:
I can't keep RegEdit open. It's the freakiest thing. I'll open it up, and as soon as I click to expand CURRENT_USER, the program closes on me. What's up with that? _________________ One Player Game | OPG on SoundCloud |
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Uncle Krunkus
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Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 4761 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 6:29 am Post subject:
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Don't know what would cause that.
Try some of the automated registry fixing, cleaning, compacting stuff he recommends, then try again. It could be a setting, it could be a corrupt part in your registry, it could be a virus (doubt it). _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there. |
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blue hell
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Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 24079 Location: The Netherlands, Enschede
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:01 am Post subject:
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opg wrote: | I can't keep RegEdit open. |
Sounds like you've got a bit of a problem with spyware / trojan stuff ... try to google for "regedit closing" to see if you can find anything that matches your situation. _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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chuckles
Joined: Apr 02, 2007 Posts: 72 Location: San Diego, California
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:
This could be the WindowsUpdate problem... |
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There has been a lot of traffic in various Windows sys admin
forums about a problem where systems essentially freeze
up for a few minutes periodically. In my case, our corporate
system forces each system to be checked for updates every
hour, when my system basically hangs for about 2 minutes.
You can tell if this is the case by checking the Windows Update.log
file.
What worked on my (low powered PC) was to split out
wuauserv into its own svchost process, then using
process explorer to lower its priority. I still
get a 2 minute wu check every hour but just lowering
the priority the wuauclt.exe and its svchost.exe to
Below Normal (6) allows my system to work with very
minimal slowdown...
If your system is no longer connected to the net then this
is probably not your problem. In any case within the last
few days Microsoft apparently has fixes for it.
There's a long thread about this at
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831/p/1
and you can check the blog kept by the Microsoft group that is responsible for the update service at
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/05/15/srvhost-msi-issue-follow-up.aspx |
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blue hell
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Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 24079 Location: The Netherlands, Enschede
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject:
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chuckles wrote: | In my case, our corporate
system forces each system to be checked for updates every
hour, |
tok ...
may I ask what kind of a company it is that you work for ? Or would telling that be a security risk maybe _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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opg
Joined: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 954 Location: Berkeley, CA, US
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:
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Blue Hell wrote: | opg wrote: | I can't keep RegEdit open. |
Sounds like you've got a bit of a problem with spyware / trojan stuff ... try to google for "regedit closing" to see if you can find anything that matches your situation. |
Yeah...this first result alone is worth a shot:
"I just had the same problem in W2K of regedit closing as soon as it was opened. The cause was a program called WINEXES.exe which I saw in task manager. I deleted the file from system32 and by starting in safe mode deleted references using regedit. I think it is some kind of trojan."
It's very possible that I got blasted with every evil thing that existed during the one time I was online filing taxes. Talk about a double whammy! _________________ One Player Game | OPG on SoundCloud |
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chuckles
Joined: Apr 02, 2007 Posts: 72 Location: San Diego, California
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject:
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Blue Hell wrote: | chuckles wrote: | In my case, our corporate
system forces each system to be checked for updates every
hour, |
tok ...
may I ask what kind of a company it is that you work for ? Or would telling that be a security risk maybe |
Basically, a company with semi-incompetent IT people. It's basically a mega-conglomerate that has gobbled up smaller companies. All the creative and motivated people of course leave for more entrepreneurial companies or form their own companies or consultancies. So only the "disgruntled malcontents" like me remain...
All the knowledgeable people I've talked to say to check for updates on a daily basis is more than enough. |
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blue hell
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Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 24079 Location: The Netherlands, Enschede
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject:
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chuckles wrote: | with semi-incompetent IT people. |
Having shares in telecom biz I guess _________________ Jan
also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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