Computer freezing up

Lionmouse wrote on 6/2/2004, 2:12 PM
I am trying to run an old Echo Gina card on my computer but it keeps freezing up and all I can do is turn off the computer. I do have the latest drivers and I am running Windows XL Pro. I had a Hell of a time getting this card to work...mostly my fault. Most of the time I use the computer for video editing. I have never used Vegas for just recording my guitar and keyboards before. Listening to you guys talk made me feel like writing and recording some music again.
Any ideal why the computer is freezing up with audio only and not video? I don't use the Gina card when I edit video.

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PipelineAudio wrote on 6/2/2004, 2:20 PM
If you hit Ctrl Alt Delete, what else is running?
TubeLover wrote on 6/2/2004, 6:22 PM
Is the computer running in pc standard?? That solved all my problems.
Lionmouse wrote on 6/2/2004, 6:29 PM
Nothing happens . I can't move the mouse. I can't do Ctrl Alt Delete. I can't do anything! All I can do is shut down the computer by killing the power to it.
Lionmouse wrote on 6/2/2004, 6:31 PM
What is PC standard????
Lionmouse wrote on 6/2/2004, 7:23 PM
I don't know if this will help but..... I had only one track on the timeline. I armed it and played my guitair for about 5 to 10 min. and the computer froze. I was not in record mode. I just love computers. Anybody have any ideals what may be wrong?????
PipelineAudio wrote on 6/2/2004, 8:08 PM
when it ISNT frozen hit control alt delete and see what all is running
VegUser wrote on 6/2/2004, 11:43 PM
Look at the obvious first. You just put the gina in...right? And when you use it (audio) it freezes.
You probably have the card installed in a pci slot that is sharing. You need to try another pci slot (usually, but not always and depending on how many cards are already installed, a good slot to choose is either pci slots 2 or 3).

What is your motherboard? What pci cards are installed. You need to list this. Open the case and look at your agp and pci slots. From top to bottom tell me what cards are installed (the white slots are pci, the topmost darker slot is agp - if you have an agp slot).

If you have an agp video card, you (usually) don't want a card in the 1st pci slot (the one directly below the agp slot).

To do an xp "standard PC" installation, when installing xp at the very beggining screen, you want to hit F5 when it asks for third party drivers.
A bit later you'll see the choice of standard PC. Doubt that'sthe problem though. You have hardware conflict happening (repeating "freezes").
Also, disable one or both of the com ports in the bios and free up IRQ's.
You most likely won't need them anyway.

jd
Handsome wrote on 6/3/2004, 8:36 AM
From time to time, when I'm using ASIO drivers (layla 24 x2) seconds after arming tracks for recording, my computer will freeze up just like lion's. Last night I switched to an older driver set up (WDM??) and it hasn't frozen up on me yet.
I have the first release of Vegas 4.. I bet it's a problem with that.

PeterWright wrote on 6/4/2004, 12:02 AM
I've been having freezing problems plus XP crashes/reboots with V5 and ASIO (see separate thread) but so far, changing to Windows Classic Driver seems to have fixed this, so there certainly seem to be some issues with ASIO.

edit - Windows Classic has helped, but not cured - I still get stuttering playing back 10 tracks, but no crashes or BSOD as before with ASIO.