Subject:what is going on??

Posted by: marcarotsky

Date:3/2/2004 8:30:34 AM

i read all these posts about people who have all these problems with acid, i NEVER had a single problem with it.............until about a week ago!!!! i think you guys jinxed my system or something!!!! a list of some of my problems...
1. CONSTANTLY getting the "blue screen of death"
2. computer restarting
3. more jitters and "chokes" than a 1950 ford
4. freezes
5. cant scroll while playing (the choking gets soo bad, it actually halts the playback)

what is going on??? nothing new added to my comp. and i have ALL updated drivers.

P4 @ 2.4 GHZ
768 RDRAM
win xp PRO
dual hard drives (system drive and audio drive) 120 GB, 120 GB (no wheres near using them up either)
triple monitor setup (all n-vidia cards with updatred drivers)
intel MOBO (new bios update, new drivers)
M-audio firewire audio on ASIO and updated.
defrag twice a day

these problems ONLY HAPPEN WITH ACID!!!! :(
i un-installed and reinstalled acid. i ran a virus check, i ran a system check, i benched the cpu to test for efficiency and it came back WAY above normal. this all started about a week ago, and NO NEW CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE CPU WHEN THIS HAPPENED!!!!!
any ideas????
md...help me out, i got a nice cold beer waitin for ya!!! :) (actually i think you said you dont drink, so i got a nice cold....ummmmm.....pepsi for ya!!!! :)
thanks in advance
--marc

Subject:RE: what is going on??

Reply by: BarryBond

Date:3/2/2004 9:42:00 AM

Same thing happend to me. All of a sudden it was acting up more than a redheaded stepchild. I reinstalled and it's better now. We did have a virus at work though, which may have screwed with ACID. Is there an ACID virus roaming around?

Subject:RE: what is going on??

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:3/2/2004 10:15:28 AM

I've heard the using drugs can lower your metabolism.

Subject:RE: what is going on??

Reply by: metrazol

Date:3/2/2004 1:17:27 PM

Hmm, 3 theories:

1. WinXP is borked. Bork bork bork Swedish Chef borked. It happens. Reinstall XP (w/o the ol' disk format, hehe, that can be bad.) Not too likely, but eh, I'm dealing with a bad XP install right now, so it popped into my head.

2. ASIO + ACID = Trouble. The ASIO drivers for various devices get seriously wonky with ACID. My mBox (DON"T BUY ONE) crashes ACID about 50% of the time. Did the ASIO drivers for your mAudio box get updated recently?

3. Video drivers. Tri-headed system? HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?! Three video cards can't be good for your PCI bus (or an AGP and a PCI card...ouch). Try rolling back the drivers a week (or however long.) I mean, seriously, 3 monitors!?! I'm half jealous, half scared. Check your ACID video settings, the screen draw method, etc. There is a lot of discussion on getting ACID to run with funky video. Are the cards identical, is one dual headed, one single? Different cards means you compound any problems. Heck, move the ACID window to a different monitor (therefore a different card is rendering it) and see what happens.

Subject:RE: what is going on??

Reply by: David_Kuznicki

Date:3/2/2004 1:19:34 PM

re: MBox

Why wouldn't you buy one, out of idle curiousity? I've been looking at picking one up soon...

David.