Fresh Install / Serious problems

[TheWillies]

Hey guys, my computer crashed, and I had to reformat and reinstall everything. Up until it crashed, it ran PT great for a couple years. So, right now PT will only play for 2 seconds before there is some kind of error. I have tried changing the settings PT suggests, but nothing helps. Here is my system report, if anyone can help that would be great, thanks!

http://www.satyenmusic.com/SystemReport.txt

[TOM@METRO]

A Sandra lite report would make this easier,
- Please - Use SiSoftware's Sandra Lite application to generate a full system profile:

[shea]

Originally Posted by TheWillies

Hey guys, my computer crashed, and I had to reformat and reinstall everything. Up until it crashed, it ran PT great for a couple years. So, right now PT will only play for 2 seconds before there is some kind of error. I have tried changing the settings PT suggests, but nothing helps. Here is my system report, if anyone can help that would be great, thanks!

http://www.satyenmusic.com/SystemReport.txt

Actually Its hard to say where to start,there are so many thing.
Creative card has to go, onboard audio disabled, power too low ,requires TI firewire, amonghst many.

seamus

[spkguitar]

Originally Posted by TheWillies

So, right now PT will only play for 2 seconds before there is some kind of error.

"Some kind of error"????

Could you narrow that down please? It would be much easier to help you if you could tell us EXACTLY what error you were getting.

Edit: and I totally agree; if you ran "PT great for a couple of years" with that audigy card in there, you were EXTREMELY lucky.

[TheWillies]

Thanks for the responses. The errors I have been getting are:

The Operating system held off interrupts for too long. If this occurs frequently, try increasing the "H/W Buffer Size" in the Playback Engine panel (-6088)

Audio processing is conflicting with other CPU tasks. If this occurs often, reducing the "H/W Buffer Size" in the Playback Engine Dialog may help prevent the problem (-9129)

The audio device buffer underflowed. If this occurs frequently, try decreasing the "H/W Buffer Size" in the Playback Engine panel or remove other devices from the audio firewire bus (-6085)


My computer is a Creation Station Tower (2006) from Sweetwater. I did add that Audigy card, and had no problems. If the problems are that many, I might just get a new computer. I think the processor might be bad now too. I transferred a massey plugin file from the computer to my laptop, both zipped and unzipped. The plugin didn't work right when I installed the unzipped one, but when I replaced it with the file from the zipped one, it worked fine. ???

[gvees]

did you install PT 8 also with the fresh install? Which version of PT did you use before? PT 8 is a lot heavier on system resources...

[TheWillies]

Thanks for the responses. I think I am just going to get a new computer, I've always wanted a Quad anyway. Thanks.

[spkguitar]

Looks like this link from the digidesign support pages might apply...

Or maybe even this one...


I know you said you had Pro Tools "running great" on that system, but I'm not really sure how, and I will stand by my first statement; you were EXTREMELY lucky. Not only do you have the Audigy, which is known to cause problems with PT, but it has integrated graphics which is a HUGE 'no-no" with Pro Tools.

One thing you might want to try examine is the IRQ assignments.

[TheWillies]

I've made a lot of recordings with this computer, and I haven't had any problems. I was able to do what I wanted to do. So, I guess I was lucky. But now that luck has run out...I'll check that stuff out, thanks!

[Steevp]

I'd made a lot of recordings before PT8 changed my "luck" too..