Disk Error after Installing Amplitube software

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I just built my 'home studio':
Window 7 64 bit, Digidesign 003 audio interface, Pro Tools LE 8

Everything has been good with the computer...pro tools and digi 003 work fine (even on 64-bit...just make sure to do the update 8.0.3 or 8.0.4 public beta!). Now, I am installing various Amplitube (Fender, Metal, etc). I even am able to use keygens to register! Then, I play through them as stand-alones...and they are sick!

BUT, the next day, I restart my computer and I get system disk errors. This is AFTER I successfully restarted after Amplitube installations were complete on the previous day! The only way my computer will actually boot up is if I insert the Windows 7 installation disk and do a system restore back to before the Amplitube installations.

Its just weird how it all of the sudden decides to get that system error the next day after everything was already working even following previous successful restarts. The only thing i could think of is other external hardware that may be causing the problem (such as wireless internet cards or the digi003 itself)...Any ideas?
 
dstarstrat said:
I just built my 'home studio':
Window 7 64 bit, Digidesign 003 audio interface, Pro Tools LE 8

Everything has been good with the computer...pro tools and digi 003 work fine (even on 64-bit...just make sure to do the update 8.0.3 or 8.0.4 public beta!). Now, I am installing various Amplitube (Fender, Metal, etc). I even am able to use keygens to register! Then, I play through them as stand-alones...and they are sick!

BUT, the next day, I restart my computer and I get system disk errors. This is AFTER I successfully restarted after Amplitube installations were complete on the previous day! The only way my computer will actually boot up is if I insert the Windows 7 installation disk and do a system restore back to before the Amplitube installations.

Its just weird how it all of the sudden decides to get that system error the next day after everything was already working even following previous successful restarts. The only thing i could think of is other external hardware that may be causing the problem (such as wireless internet cards or the digi003 itself)...Any ideas?
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Your recording computer should never see the internet,but I don't think that is your problem.
Did you properly shut down last night? As a test shut down again and see if it happens again.



:cool:
 
dstarstrat said:
I even am able to use keygens to register!
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*cough* pirate :spank:

The potential of dodgy/infected cracks or keygens comes to mind.

Paying for ya' software generally results in far fewer problems like this, and you have someone to moan to and get proper support from when it goes wrong.

Might not be that, but if it is then its entirely self-inflicted :)
 
proper shutdown

Yes...i did the traditional ShutDown normally the night before.

The day before the disk errors started happening, I have also restarted and shutdown successfully. Upon these successful restarts, I was able to reopen the software and rock out...so hard. The only other piece of hardware connected is a wireless USB 2.0 Network adapter card (for internet connection). However, this never created problems before...so I agree its probably not the card...

Another thing to note is that I have repeated this cycle a few times of:
successful installation, works fine before/after initially restarting computer, then a day later i get the disk error.

The whole delay between working and then getting the error makes me think it isn't the Amplitube or the 003...but thats why I'm here!
 
cough

well, that is cough* true about the pirate stuff.
I have never had problems like this before though with the same programs...unless digi003 or windows 7 can somehow recognize that they are cough* pirated.

Spent 6k on the studio, yet all it takes are a few $100 amplitubes to f it all up? LOL...whats the answer here?!
 
The answer is don't use pirated software... When you use pirated software there is no way to tell the stability of the software or how it will effect your system. There is no real way to troubleshoot the problem if you can't be sure of the software's integrity... bottom line.

Long story short: you're fucked. :eek:
 
dstarstrat said:
Spent 6k on the studio, yet all it takes are a few $100 amplitubes to f it all up? LOL...whats the answer here?!
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Correction... $0 of Amplitube software. Don't try and kid yourself!

I doubt that this would cause the problems with the whole computer (unless the cracks were infected with viruses), but cracked software like this is often a lot less stable and is prone to crashing regularly, simply due to the nature of the cracks (often editing/patching DDLs and EXEs with botched up modifications) and copy protection circumvention. Not always the case, but as a whole you'll run into far more problems... trust me, as a skint teenager it probably won't surprise you that I've been there and done this, but come to the conclusion that its more than worth paying.

But it sounds like recognise that its only a few hundred dollars worth of software, the cost of which is negligible in the scheme of the rest of the cost of your studio, so why not cough up if you like it that much? You probably wouldn't have any more stability problems once you had a clean, legit install of it running and all traces of the other one gone, but even if some issues remained you'd have the support from IK Multimedia to fall back on and could probably even get refunded if you weren't happy.

Though if you are having problems booting it may be an entirely different problem altogether...
 
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Yes..a system disk error seems like a much larger problem than what would come from amplitube installations...especially cause they worked fine on my old computer. Could the Digi003 have extra special sercurity settings that cause the crash?
 
I don't personally have any moral issues with using pirated software, but it has a tendency to be buggy so I steer clear. Not messing with that crap on my DAW PC. When I get those few precious hours of free time to play in the studio I don't want to be jacking around with a buggy computer I want to hit the red button and go.
 
So, I figure a Mod will eventually get to it, but...

It's posted policy that using and asking for help with pirated software is generally grounds for some sort of punitive temporary or permanent ejection from the board.

Several people on here make their living creating and/or selling this software, it's technically illegal, yadda yadda...
Whatever the reason, you'll end up not being able to get any help from a large pool of really talented, experienced insightful people.

Maybe drop this thread, get rid of the pirated stuff, then come back if you're still having problems.
You'll get way more use out of the wealth of knowledge available than you will out of a couple of buggy plugins.
 
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