-9173 Conquerors...How Did You Do It?

[lesbrunn]

Hey guys,

I started out with PT12 with zero -9173 errors. Along the way I've had a few of them, really more of an annoyance than anything else and not persistent enough to be a real problem. Suddenly, It's now a show-stopper! Over the holidays, in between projects, I did a little system maintenance. I updated Windows, optimised/defragged drives and installed a couple of apps.

Suddenly, when I tried to open a large session I'd been working smoothly on in December, it wouldn't play because of -9173 errors every few seconds. The CPU meter was hitting 100%. Granted, this is a large session, but just before I did a rough mix of this session in late December, I'd updated Windows and drivers and created a couple of system images because everything was running so smoothly. I've tried several backups of the same session and a couple of other similar ones with no success. I've tried every trick I know, to no avail.

Needless to say, I rolled back to the previous image. But the -9173 followed me there! Now I cannot play sessions that were running smoothly in December, with the exact same system I had then. Could it be a hardware issue? The only thing I've changed since then is screens. I went back to the old screens...no show.

I know this topic has been beaten to death, but PT is unusable right now, and I've got to finish this project! Has anyone experienced hardware-related -9173 errors? I'm forced to think this way because I've rolled back my system to my most solid images, and I'm still getting -9173 every 2 or 3 seconds.

Any help would be most welcome...

[leftalive]

Any chance you could just roll back to 12.4? I've been using it for around a year (since switching to a PC in the studio) and I haven't had any issues with -9173s. Similar(ish) rig to yours, as well.

[64GTOBOY]

I don't know if it will help you any but the only hardware issue that I had that caused that was a RAM stick that went crazy on me.

[lesbrunn]

Originally Posted by leftalive

Any chance you could just roll back to 12.4? I've been using it for around a year (since switching to a PC in the studio) and I haven't had any issues with -9173s. Similar(ish) rig to yours, as well.

Hi leftalive,

I tried that after a clean uninstall. Before that, I'd tried re-installing 12.8.1 P It didn't work. That's what makes me feel it could be a hardware issue.

[lesbrunn]

Originally Posted by 64GTOBOY

I don't know if it will help you any but the only hardware issue that I had that caused that was a RAM stick that went crazy on me.

What symptoms did you see that showed you the RAM was bad?

[jeam25]

Hi lesburn !

Sorry to hear that . Since that is a CPU related error and you have a very good system by your profile . I think it is a configuration problem . Double check your windows configurations settings for PT. Take a look at your task manager and look for unwanted apllications runing in background and startup. Also double check your Bios setting about CPU stepping .

[64GTOBOY]

Symptoms were what seemed to be random blue screens and 9173. It turned out to be load related, I guess whenever the second stick was pushed. I don't really know why. It started after a cpu upgrade from I5 to i7 so at first I tried changing cpu back but the problem stayed. I don't know if the new processor stressed it(probably) more but I tried running with one stick at a time and found it when the problem showed on that stick .Put the new cpu back and working fine

[lesbrunn]

Originally Posted by jeam25

Hi lesburn !

Sorry to hear that . Since that is a CPU related error and you have a very good system by your profile . I think it is a configuration problem . Double check your windows configurations settings for PT. Take a look at your task manager and look for unwanted apllications runing in background and startup. Also double check your Bios setting about CPU stepping .

Hi jeam25,

I've done all of the above. My system power and services are well tweaked for PT use. There's no CPU stepping. Thinking it could be a bios issue, I also flashed the bios.

[jeam25]

Ok ... what about MB drivers ! Are they all up to date ?

[albee1952]

I've been seeing -9093 errors and transport stops in all versions of PT12(HD here) and finally(last week) narrowed it to the internet(or something with my cable modem/router setup). As long as I disconnect the connection to the outside world, I get almost zero errors and spikes(if I try to instantiate Ozone 8 while playback is rolling, that will also spike and throw the error so I remember to stop before adding that plugin