frustration

[joeymusicguy]

my computer keeps freezing, and im almost ready to go into post production with this record...

at first it was an atapi.sys stop error (im running windows xp pro, nuendo 3.2, rme fireface 800 via firewire, sata hdd)

so through research i started making adjustments to the system
i uninstalled virtual drives
i changed all the hard drive cables and placement (in case of heat problems)
turned page file off
everything went pretty well at this point

then i left the last project file i was working on open for a few hours, came back to the computer and hit play, all was well, then all of sudden it frozen for a moment (sounded like the matrix!) and then resumed playing again...
a few seconds later, random stop error with no explaination (just stop 0x00230239409230920 or some bull shit)

and thats it.

im frustrated. i've had the same song on repeat for the last half hour and it wont crash again.

any suggestions??

 

[abyssofdreams]

sounds like a harddrive or memory issue. if it is the first you might try a checkdisk of some sort, there's also memory tests (freeware) you should run.
if you got a stop error write it down and look it up with google, I'm pretty sure someone else already came across that problem.
if the error is totally random I'd say it is a memory issue but could be anything really, ranging from your mainboard to some wicked driver issue with your interface.

be sure to make backups at any times!

 

[alan1990]

I had the same trouble with mine recently.It ended up being a bad hard drive, it did what yours is doing now for a week or so and eventually quit spinning. although it could also be a ram problem.

If you have more then one stick of ram take one out and see if you still get the error. if you do obviously put that one back in and take the other out. If that doesnt solve your problem you may need to format, hopefully this fixes it and you dont need anew drive like i did.

 

[joeymusicguy]

i dont think it could be ram, i stuck the ram in about a year ago...
the mainboard is clean, and so are the heatsinks

nothing's changed about the main system except the video card

this is seriously crap! i dont know what to do. i have a 15 thousand dollar project i can't do anything to reliably!

 

[-Gavin-]

atapi.sys relates to hard drives.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;331958&Product=WinXP



If it works, give me some of that 15k!

 

[joeymusicguy]

yeah i think i've narrowed it down to my system drive having a bad sector

wish me luck

 

[-Gavin-]

if it's a 15k project, just buy a new disc !

 

[joeymusicguy]

if it's a 15k project, just buy a new disc !

two steps ahead of ya

the trick is getting my system to ghost over
because if it wont
i'll be sitting here installing programs all day

 

[musickey]

two steps ahead of ya

the trick is getting my system to ghost over
because if it wont
i'll be sitting here installing programs all day

I hear you man, getting ready to have to do that this weekend. easily a 6 to 8 hour project.

 

[coldthrn]

If you can get ahold of it SpinriteV6 is the best drive diag. I work as a lead systems technician for a fortune 500 company. That is what I use on drives that are starting to fail to save them from an untimely death. Good for recover and maintenance. If your hard drive fails and you have to pull some things off, Stellar Phoenix recovery is excellent as well.

 

[zvish]

you smoke too much in studio ;P

 

[joeymusicguy]

got a new hdd
reinstalled everything
yay

this has nothing to do with smoking, want to see the inside of my computer case? *rollz eyez*

lawl, hard drives do die!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

got a new hdd
reinstalled everything
yay

this has nothing to do with smoking, want to see the inside of my computer case? *rollz eyez*

lawl, hard drives do die!

Yep and it sucks when they do (if it's the system drive).

 

[beyond dead]

always back up your back ups backups, then make a back up of that lol

 

[kickinwing65]

computers never die if your pr0

 

[gabriel g.]

just switch to a MAC!!!!!!!!!!haha
there is this great tool, called timemachine. Every night after sessions I start a nice backup...
Last month I put a new Harddrive in my mackbook Pro. After installing OSX leopard, the installer ask me if I want to restore files from my timemachine backup. So I gave it a try and it totaly worked out.
I restored logic 8 from the back up and everything works perfectly fine. No strange system failures...

....and I was a long time user of cubase (nuendo) but last year I switched to logic. Best step
think about it, buddy

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

What? Macs have a possibility to take these... um... backup thingies? Sweet! PC's do suck balls now that I think of it!

Seriously, that's as silly as the "you know, I never have to turn off my MacBook, it's got this feature called 'Sleep'" argument

Good to hear you got it back up and running again. HD failures are one of the most annoying things when it comes to computers, especially if they happen all of a sudden on relatively new drives with no signs of going down in flames. My buddy's computer shut itself down last week and failed to detect the hard drive. I looked into it and it seemed to be a HD that had killed itself. I told him what kind of drive to get for a replacement, but nothing. Turned out it was the MB that had fried with no good reason, so now he's waiting for new parts so that I can build him a completely new system. Sure he didn't lose any critical data since the old HD is probably still working, but now he has to rely on my old, crappy backup laptop for a week or so before getting the parts :/

 

[Line666]

9/10 times with computer problems, it's the hard drive.

The things break so so easily, I live in a house with a lot of dust - mainly ash from the fire and I've had about 5 hard drive failures in the last few years on various pc's.