My computer says its taking a dump?

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I think I may be having some computer problems too. I'm using NT and midiman delta 1010, installed latest drivers a few weeks ago, and use ntracks. PIII 500MHz, 20G drive with NT and ntracks and audio storage. 10G drive with 98 and other junk, 224MB. First of all, something is going on with something. I occasionally get a window pop up that says, "ntrack.exe-cancel timeout" then under that it says, "The driver Driverma_delta failed to complete a cancelled I/O request in the allotted time."
It usually happens when I try to shutdown the computer, but also sometimes when I am using ntracks, where I just hit OK a bunch of times to get rid of it. I have to shutdown by pressing the power button on the computer, and when I restart, I get the warning and check disk goes on. I don't like that.
Then, sometimes when using ntracks, it dissappears and I get a blue screen with lots of files on it, important ones like stuff that might be in bios, it says, "beginning dump of physical memory"
On the bottom it says, "Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or tech support group."
I just don't understand what is going on.
Any ideas?
bobbo
 
If your computer is taking a dump, it probably has dire rear. Unplug it, take off the back panel, and wipe out all the digital poop with DigiWipes, then...

No, just kidding. First, a stupid question: is the hardware and software you bought certified to run on NT? Are you using the latest version of NT (i.e. Service Pack 6)?

I hope the answer to both the above is yes. Assuming that it is, go into your C:\WINDOWS_NT directory (or whatever is the main directory there) and look for the humongo file that your computer crash (that's what happened) left around, and delete it. I think it's called USER.DMP, but if you're not sure, leave it there unless you're short on disk space.

Get Norton for NT and use it to fix any Windows registry problems you probably have (optional but recommended).

Now assuming your HW/SW really is supposed to work on NT, remove then reinstall the software drivers for the sound card, because that's what's causing your problem (unless it's actually a hardware conflict of some kind). And contact MIDIMAN to make sure you really have the latest version. And if you did anything tricky with the BIOS to "soup up" your computer, put it back the way it was!
 
Hi Dragon,
Good to see you back on the forum again. I did install the lastest soundcard drivers for NT from the midiman website. I did email them about it too, but need to wait for their reply. I did go to the dump site file, openned it in clipboard, and got a lot of strange characters that I couldn't read, but did find some english language that said some things about the wav files I was working on during this occurance in ntracks. I checked the size of the user.dmp file and its 22.7MB. I have about 1.5G left on my FAT partition that has NT and ntracks and soundcard driver on it. I have a bigger partition with the audio files on it (made up of little 2G partitions of FAT to get along with NT, tried making it NTFS but get disk errors when I do that). On the partition with the current song I am working on there is about 500MB left on it. Could it be that I need more space on that partition? That its too full for ntracks to work with? I also didn't do any kind of changing of bios or any settings anywhere. I have never defraged or done anything like that, would that be an option, I delete tracks a lot when working in ntracks, (can never get things right the first or second, etc. time) do those tracks that I deleted stay in the computer somewhere and screw up the drive? If I do defrag the drive, are there chances that I could lose some files or data?
Just some questions I have. I do know that the delta 1010 had some problems with CEP in the past, maybe its having problems with ntracks too.
bobbo
 
I believe that your problem is with n-tracks. I installed it once and had nothing but problems with it. For some reason, NT does not like that program, and if NT don't like, neither do I.... :D Really. I have found that any app that has problems running on NT is not all that great. The better quality app's I have used never have problems with NT.

Something to think about.

Ed
 
Oh also, I have little faith in midiman products. Have never used them, but something about them makes me leary. I go with my gut, and it is usually right. The fact that many of their products only run on 95/98 is enough to keep me away from them.

Ed
 
I not really sure about it. I am dual booting, and am not sure if my partitions are correct. Maybe someone could let me know if this is right. I have a 2G FAT partition (with win98, internet, ntracks, midiman 98 drivers, some other programs) and an 8G FAT32 partition with room for storing photo stuff, some mp3 songs ect. (things I use with win98) all this on one 10G hard drive.
On another 20G hard drive, I have a 2G FAT partition with winNT, ntracks with NT drivers. On this same drive I have a bunch of little 2G FAT partitions for audio storing of wav files.
Midiman just emailed me and said win98 had to be in a FAT32 partition and NT had to be FAT partition and if it isn't that it could be causing the problem. I just don't know if this is right. Everything is working fine the way I have it set up, except for their soundcard and ntracks getting along together.
I am using Partition Magic and if I were to changed that 2G FAT win98 partition to FAT32, I think I would have to format the partition first and lose all the stuff on it, in order to convert it to FAT32 (at least I think this is the case). Maybe I'll just do it and make the FAT32 partiton a little smaller and just put win98 on it. I don't really know.
Any thoughts from you folks?
bobbo
 
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