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:burn: :burn: :burn: :burn: FU----- BAS---- PC I have had it for a year or so now with what i thought was a big hard drive when i got it . but i have now come realise that its tiny like 1.19gb tiny .!!!! i just cant take it no more. its got a amd 750hz processor an 184mb ram any one know how to stop the bastard from crashing and crakling. after i have had a loop going for anything longer that 5 mins cubase either frezzes or it come up with a blue screen sayin fatal error at blah blah blah! ??????? :bah: :bah:
woody
20-02-2003, 05:25 PM
that hard drive is just waaay too small...you need to have plenty of hdd space left just to run apps like cubase...
get a new hard drave mate, they are only about £25 for a 15-20 gig :agree:
where??? are most of the prices the same every where
woody
23-02-2003, 12:34 PM
ok maybe more like £40 ish then :D
Dont know much about music software, but lack of hdspace shouldn't cause crashes etc?
If you're running Windows 98 it might be worth upgrading to 2K/XP, whatever's the better solution for music apps (dont know much about em myself).
Sas is the harddisk actually that small? Or have you just filled it up with loadsa stuff :) If you check and uninstall and unneeded programs, any crap you might've downloaded off the net you dont need, etc, might be able to free up a bit of space!
Woody's right tho, having another hd would make things easy, not sure if it'd stop the crashes tho..
ad_rewind
23-02-2003, 05:10 PM
Dunno if I'd upgrade to XP though -- That has got to be the biggest bag o' shite OS ever!
Specially if you're usin editions of software that predate XP; as (despite what the whores @ MS say!) -- it fuckin aint 100% backwards compatible!
I'd stick with 98 or ME myself :thumbs:
I previously stuck with 98, and now use ME; and I've never had any problems -- unlike sooo many people I know using XP!
(I could very well be wrong! - But ...) I'd say lack of RAM could lead to errors too ...
And, just thinking ...
Have you updated all your drivers etc?
Do you update Windows regularly?
And ... Do you disc clean-up, scan disc, and de-frag your HDD regularly, to fee up some HDD space?
Also, might be worth tryin un-installing Cubase, and re-installing it; incase you have some corrupted files.
Go for ME i'd say, the most stable OS ive come across yet and Ive been producing tunes for a LONG time!
woody
23-02-2003, 07:29 PM
i'd say 2k is the way...but i havnt really used it mucg
i'm a 9x boy meself :hatpimp:
WinME? Omnikut/Adam you must both be mad! :laff:
ME has been proven the most unstable OS ever !!!
98se has been pretty solid on my PC since I switched from XP
:thumbs:
been runnin win 2k since last summer - not crashed yet!!!!
supressor
24-02-2003, 09:35 AM
had no problems with xp once i disabled all the useless crap microsoft thinks i need..
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm
SAS> i have had a message come up on SX a couple of times, Fatal Error etc..... did i give you that SX cd??? might be the version i gave you...? Dunno?!?!?!?
corea
25-02-2003, 09:05 AM
Originally posted by Ådam
Dunno if I'd upgrade to XP though -- That has got to be the biggest bag o' shite OS ever!
Specially if you're usin editions of software that predate XP; as (despite what the whores @ MS say!) -- it fuckin aint 100% backwards compatible!
I'd stick with 98 or ME myself :thumbs:
I previously stuck with 98, and now use ME; and I've never had any problems -- unlike sooo many people I know using XP!
(I could very well be wrong! - But ...) I'd say lack of RAM could lead to errors too ...
And, just thinking ...
Have you updated all your drivers etc?
Do you update Windows regularly?
And ... Do you disc clean-up, scan disc, and de-frag your HDD regularly, to fee up some HDD space?
Also, might be worth tryin un-installing Cubase, and re-installing it; incase you have some corrupted files.
Mate, I have XP (for like 4 months now) and haven't encountered a single problem, crash, ANYTHING in all that time. I sometimes run 2-3 heavy-weight gfx or sound applications at the same time (photoshop 7, cubase sx, maya, etc...), and sometimes all that together until I decide whether to do graphics od sound at that moment. :) I do have a 2ghz P4 and 512ram, but nobody ever said XP was for slow computers (except maybe microsoft, but do you buy all the shit they tell you?).
Au contraire, w98 is the worst OS I used since OS's exist (I'm an oldskool guy, been through everything from c64 and atari to dos and win31), and no matter how much you optimise the bastard and how careful you are, it always abandons you somewhere in some important situation. I don't know a single person that didn't have any problems with 98 or ME.
Keep your system for sound CLEAN. Without games, loads of demo software, and stuff that pollutes your system with unstable DLLs. On a HDD so small I would say that you install the only the OS and SX and only VST's and utilityes that you use and need.
Want real advice? Invest in a HDD :)
woody
25-02-2003, 11:26 AM
Originally posted by sas
:burn: :burn: :burn: :burn: FU----- BAS---- PC I have had it for a year or so now with what i thought was a big hard drive when i got it . but i have now come realise that its tiny like 1.19gb tiny .!!!! i just cant take it no more. its got a amd 750hz processor an 184mb ram any one know how to stop the bastard from crashing and crakling. after i have had a loop going for anything longer that 5 mins cubase either frezzes or it come up with a blue screen sayin fatal error at blah blah blah! ??????? :bah: :bah:
actually, if it blue screens you after you have had a loop goin for a few minutes, it maybe overheating...
ad_rewind
25-02-2003, 11:43 AM
I got a 1.8ghz Athlon with 512 RAM, and I've been usin WinME for over a year now -- and it's not crashed or fucked up once; and yes I also frequently multi-task with large apps n progs (like Cubase, DreamWeaver etc), and have a number of big games lurking on the HDD ...
... Everyone I know with XP has encountered problems; either with software incompatibilites or just basic pc-going-tits-up.
Until mine does the same, I aint gonna be convinced on the XP thing ...
mrwilson
25-02-2003, 04:26 PM
you may have to get a good soundcard as well.
S Man
26-02-2003, 04:53 AM
SAS
The Atari is still going mate, very stable indeed!
:nene:
Cant use VST on Atari Cubase though - Things have come a long way since the ST, get with the time's Si.
:nene:
S Man
27-02-2003, 08:35 AM
@SOL
:argue:
You'll never change me mate!
:lol:
ive tried everthing ive had cubase on and off more time than ive had hot dinners atari,s are still an option but with no sampler it,s not that viable but soon very soon . its prob my fault it give in any way but i still wanna giv it a slap on its litte harddisk bum! sol gonna sort me out this week so things are looking up! anyone with a midi controller ,soundcard ,etc etc 4 sale get in touch . nice 1, 4 the help !!, @ si. one of those a3,s for sale?
Had FAR fewer problems using ME than I have with Win2K and XP on my 800mhz Athlon!!!!! i know AMDs arent necessarily the studio professionals choice. Plus I can run a load more audio tracks than I have ever been able to in the past! Hardly ever crashes anymore!?
No Ive not read any benchmark/statistical shit on all the Microsoft OSs side-by-side, and yes, I do know what Im talking about! Anyway, isn't ME just 98SE with a slight GUI upgrade, IE5 and a newer version of DirectX?! Basically, YES! It is by no means unstable.
:bah:
Rant over
S Man
28-02-2003, 02:19 AM
A3000's are staying in the rack!
But if you have scan round loot, you can pick up secondhand A3's and A4's for £350 - £400. Tooled up with 32 - 64mb ram and internal hard drives.
Good Hunting mate!
I'm just waiting for my Yamaha Motif Rack (Bad Boy Module!)
:jumpup: :thumbs:
sol has now give my pc the kiss of life thanks dr sol !
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