Blue screen of DEATH!

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I have been using Cakewalk since version 9 and have moved up through Sonar 1 and 2. I upgraded to 3 when it came out last year but it never worked properly on my old laptop. Since I have a new(ish) laptop, and my latest audio project is completed, I decided to reinstall it.

The install went fine (3.1) but when I try to record I keep getting the blue screen of death... stack dump and reset. I updated the audio drivers (M-Audio Audiophile USB) to the latest from the M-Audio website and I still get the blue screen crash when I am recording. It crackles and stutters and then crashes. Sonar 2 has no such problem.

However, since the driver update, Sonar 2 no longer recognizes my Audiophile USB. Could someone help me get at least one of my Sonar's running?

I have a HP Pavilion ze4400 notebook:
AMD Athlon 1.05Ghz with 384MB Ram
M-Audio Audiophile USB audio card
Sonar 2.1 and Sonar 3.1
 
Interesting how as soon as you post a question you discover something isn't it? This isn't the first time I've struggled to the point of asking a question and then found the answer within minutes of posting the question!

Anyway, I found the problem with Sonar 2. I guess Sonar 3 automatically used the ASIO driver for my Audiophile and Sonar 2 disabled it. I went into Sonar 2's audio settings and reenabled the Audiophile and it worked.

That of course got me thinking about Sonar 3 and the ASIO. I went into the audio settings and changed the setting for Playback and Recording to WDM/KS rather than ASIO. Then I went back to the general tab and selected the same buffer size and number of playback queue buffers as I had set in Sonar 2. It all works and it is all voodoo!

I can't understand why I can't use the ASIO driver though??
 
I have another problem / question as a result of the crash mentioned above. The project file I was working on while getting the blue screen of death has never fully recovered. I have all the audio but the waveforms have gone flatline. Is there a way to restore them short of exporting each track and reimporting?
 
drathbun said:
I have all the audio but the waveforms have gone flatline. Is there a way to restore them short of exporting each track and reimporting?
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They should restore themselves automatically. However Sonar is quite slow in redrawing them (that's probably why they are cached in the first place). Perhaps you just didn't give it enough time?

You can help this in the future by raising the size of your cache. Go into the aud.ini file and increase the setting for PicCacheMB.
 
I have all the audio but the waveforms have gone flatline.
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The "pictures" or waveforms of audio are kept in a seperate folder than actual audio call the picture cache.
You may have to poke around in your files or do a search for files with the same file extension.
Did you try a bounce?Copy track?
 
acidrock said:
The "pictures" or waveforms of audio are kept in a seperate folder than actual audio call the picture cache.
You may have to poke around in your files or do a search for files with the same file extension.
Did you try a bounce?Copy track?
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Thanks! The bounce to clips worked.
 
dachay2tnr said:
They should restore themselves automatically. However Sonar is quite slow in redrawing them (that's probably why they are cached in the first place). Perhaps you just didn't give it enough time?

You can help this in the future by raising the size of your cache. Go into the aud.ini file and increase the setting for PicCacheMB.
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I'm puzzled. Someone apparently gave me negative rep points for this response.

I don't really care very much about the whole rep point thing, but why on earth would anyone attack me for this post? Am I missing something? Did I inadvertently attack someone's mother? Sister? Girlfriend? :confused: :confused:
 
Relax, old friend!

I added (I hope) one to you... :)
 
moskus said:
Relax, old friend!

I added (I hope) one to you... :)
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Thanks, moskus. :) But the issue is not my rep points (or even the lack thereof). Rather, I don't understand why anyone would have possibly taken offense to the above cited post.
 
dachay2tnr said:
Thanks, moskus. :) But the issue is not my rep points (or even the lack thereof). Rather, I don't understand why anyone would have possibly taken offense to the above cited post.
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I was offended. I found it somewhat racist, definitely sexist.











Oh wait, wrong thread. My bad :p
 
Well of course it was sexy. All my posts are sexy.

< humming > I'm too sexy for this post. I'm too sexy for this thread. I'm too sexy for this Board. I'm too sexy. . .


Oh, wait, you said sexist. :(
 
HEY,I GOT A NEGATIVE REP POINT ON THIS THREAD TOO!!! :mad:

I'm already on double secret probation.I hope my probation officer does'nt get wind of this.
 
It wasn't me! I appreciated all your helpful responses - as always! :)
 
acidrock said:
HEY,I GOT A NEGATIVE REP POINT ON THIS THREAD TOO!!! :mad:
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Well what did you expect? Your post was quite rude, insensitive and a bit condescending. Mine on the other hand. . .



:D :D :D
 
Hey! Now I've got three good rep points for this post.

All's good. :)



helps to complain, I guess. :D
 
I didn't do anything, but...

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to dachay2tnr again."

:eek:

Anyway, you'll be famous soon enough, dachay! :D
 
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