Q10 crash

[wizcow]

Hi

I have an Aadvark Q10 and I am running Cakewalk 9.0 on Windows 2000.
I think maybe its the drivers that are crashing. Or something.
If I go to Component Services and restart the Aadvark Audio Manager, then I'm back in business.

This seems to happen a lot.
Does anyone have a fix for this, or is there something that causes the crash?

Tom

 

[fldrummer]

The control panel freezes on me all the time. I have to turn on the computer my my adjustments right away because in about 5 min the control panel become inactive but the Q10 will still work.

 

[patsplat]

When I updated to the latest drivers a few months ago,after about 5 days it started to do crap like when I left one app and went to another, a box would pop up and say "Cannot open waveform input 1,2 Direct Pro Q10 the specified device is already in use.wait until it is free,and try again" I would have to restart the service to continue.So I uninstalled/reinstalled my recording apps and it cured that, but the mixer would freeze after a few minutes,so I would close the mixer and reopen it.I did that a few times and it seemed to adjust itself out and hasn't done anything stupid like that for several months now.It seemed to me that it wanted the drivers installed before the recording app.Every app I've installed since has worked flawlessly.So you might try that (uninstall/reinstall) and see if that clears it up...good luck.

 

[manning1]

wiz. C9 is getting a bit old now.
if you get stuck.....try the demo of powertracks that i use.
its very cheap...and tell me if it works fine.
years ago i used cake.
if it doesnt then i suspect your sound card drivers.
a good way to test a sound card is to try it on various apps.
if you get probs with lots of apps - invariably its the sound card drivers.
if you post your spec of your pc in full - i'll have a look see if there is any
glaring problem. peace.

 

[wizcow]

Thanks for the replies!

Manning1, you requested my machine stats....

P4 2.4 Ghz
256 Mb ram
Window 2000
60 Gb hard-drive

I plan to double my ram, as I am also experiencing some latency problems too.

Thanks
Tom

 

[manning1]

you should really be running 512 ram. also make sure you have
dma enabled on your hard drive.
also tell me - what you have in your pci slots.
ideally you should use a second drive for audio. drives with 8 mb cache
are good to consider.
also tell me if your using this pc for gaming and have a fancy
gaming card or network card or tv tuner card in a pci slot.
a RULE...try not to have anything in pci slots other than a sound card
if using a pci sound card. this allows the sound card free rein over the pci bus without interruptions from other devices. peace.
note...dont pull out a pci video card though if you need it.