CW crashing PB

[bball jones]

Promptly after buying my Packard Bell PII 350 they went belly up. During the first year of ownership, I could take it to a local repair facility for any problem. I also bought the extended on site warranty ($200) - but the SOB's got every excuse to avoid coming on site. Anywho, CPA 9 is crashin on me big time. All other programs are working fine - no problem. I am looking for reasons not to go to the new Gateway Country in town.

 

[Sabith]

how exactly is it crashing???

when????

Need more info =)

Sabith

 

[Spider]

Promptly after buying my Packard Bell PII 350 they went belly up. During the first year of ownership, I could take it to a local repair facility for any problem. I also bought the extended on site warranty ($200) - but the SOB's got every excuse to avoid coming on site. Anywho, CPA 9 is crashin on me big time. All other programs are working fine - no problem. I am looking for reasons not to go to the new Gateway Country in town.

Hey there bball , this has nothing to do with your question , sorry , but i just had to quote something.... u know this.. "i use to sleep with that basketball ..... maybe thats why i cant sleep at night" haahaa , sorry alll , but cheech and chong rock , cool name dude.....hey just one thing bball , i have probs with logic audio , pc av erors , only when using a couple of reverb plugins ... ive found out its not the pc.. what sort of probs do u have ..
spider

 

[bball jones]

I can work in CW for approximately 1 hour then something kicks in and the cpu powers down, like someone just pulled the ac plug. Precisely after a twenty minute wait, it powers back up - all by itself. But if I work in CW for about 20 minutes I can exit the program and wait a minute then open it back up and continue on my project for another 20 minutes.

A tekkie a CW hipped me to MSCONFIG which allows me to disable all none related CW programs upon start-up. It is still shittin.

 

[Emeric]

That's a strange one. Some long shot possibilities:

Check your BIOS settings - try turning off all the power management stuff. Check to see that there isn't some automatic shut-off, schedule turn on thing. I don't know why there building all these gimmicks into boards, but I won't rant.

Have you installed a new piece of hardware lately? I had a lucent modem on another machine that would case it to reboot randomly. Is the CPU and Power supply fan spinning?

- Is it PB's install of the operating system or have you toasted the drive and reinstalled from scratch?

 

[bball jones]

When it dies every thing is off, when it is running everything is fine CPU, fan, etc. This is not the original harddrive. The original harddrive, motherboard fried some 6-8 months ago and were replaced for free under factory warranty at an authorised local repair facility - those were the good ole days. This is where the residing OS was installed. It has been fine until recently. No new hardware to speak of either.

 

[bball jones]

More on my dilemma

It crashes when I us the mouse to change views primarily. Just now I was 50 minutes into some fresh takes and went from track view to mixer view - all is ok - so far. But then I click on the minimize in track view and boom boom out go the lights . . . Also winamp changes colors on me, like never before, I know there is a connection.

 

[bball jones]

Thank Jah !

After 3 weeks of trying to convince the warranty people that I had a problem, they are sending someone out to replace my power supply. I will be contacted in 5-10 business days. (they need to do something about their response time) I don't think it is the power supply - but it is a start.

 

[Emeric]

I doubt it's the power supply to, but you never know sometimes. Unless PB knows something we don't... i.e. your not the only one.

You have opened the machine up and taken a look? Take each and every card out and reseat them, if you have more than one memory module, try one and then the other. Take out any card you don't need for recording, see if the problem goes away.