which programs best with WinXP? + what's causing my system crashes?

[skrwl]

The subject line just about says it all for the first question. I'm talking about Win XP home edition, by the way.

OK, on to the system crashes question: my sound card is an SiS 7012 (just something built into the board of my system, which is an AMD 1.1 GHZ with 512 MB RAM, but it's supposed to be full-duplex, which is supposed to be capable of this, right?)...

So, lately, I've been trying to use Cakewalk Guitar Tracks 2.0 and Sound Forge 4.5 (neither of which are really compatible with XP) to capture some stuff originally recorded on a Tascam 424 cassette 4-track. I've just got the 424's lines out plugged into an adapter and straight into the sound card's line in.

But with either program, the system crashes after about 3 minutes of recording. It's really not much fun.

Do you think my problem is just the incompatible software, or the sound card, or something else? I've tried recording in less-demanding formats (8-bit; 22,050 sample rate) and the pattern of system crashes seems the same.

Help! I'd really be grateful for any advice you can kick down.

 

[Creepy]

I heard that Home Edition has something to the effect of a "Service Pack" for it now. You might try that.

It IS Home Edition! And to boot, a brand new OS. A MS combination that hasn't exactly came out of the gate smoothly in the past eh?

I am a Creep!

 

[elevate]

Sounds like you need to look for some new drivers for your on-board sound. Either that or a BIOS update for your mobo. On-board sound is the devil.

 

[darnold]

Hmm. I doubt it would be a Winxp problem. I would think the problem would be more within the sound card or harddrive (or the motherboard is having problems regulated information to the harddrive). What else is in your computer, and what is the computer being use for? What programs are running in the background of the audio programs? It seems since you are not having any luck from changing sampling speeds it is not the sound card.

Let me know and i will try and help you out further.

Darnold

 

[bbundy96]

What other hardware do you have in your computer?
Video Card? Modem? Etc?

What you should do is uninstall all of the drivers that were loaded when XP was installed. Reboot the computer when all are uninstalled. Don't load any of the drivers off the disks supplied with your hardware. Let XP load any and all drivers that it wants upon restarting. All drivers that arent 100% compatible with XP or that don't existing in the XP driver database will be loaded as a Generic driver.
Now, run the programs you would as usual and see if you still crash. If you don't crash, then you know it is because one of your drivers are either bad or incompatible with XP at this time. Load one driver at a time, starting with your crucial drivers such as your Video working your way down to less priority drivers (i.e. modem). Run programs on your computer after loading each driver to see if it crashes. Once you crash after loading a driver, uninstall that last driver installed and re-test the computer to see if it crashes. If the computer runs okay, don't install that driver anymore, just use a Generic driver provided by XP.

Also, do a Windows Update and install anything and everything available for update next time u sign online.

On my computer in the studio, I have an AOpen FM56-PM modem and an Asus V8200 Deluxe video card. With XP, I can't use the driver supplied with the modem along with the my video card because the two conflict with each other and freezes my computer. So, I use a Generic driver for my modem and the disk supplied driver for my Video.

I think I sounded like I rambled on and on, it's late, im tired, bear with me.

Jim