Pro Tools crashing on start up

[Nyhmesis]

Ok, everything was fine 3 days ago. I was running 8.0.3 LE. When I tried to open pro tools it gets to the creating DAE ( I think that is what it says, it flashes by so quick I cant really tell ) and then I get the blue screen of death with a ton of text but again, flashes by so quick its hard to read any of it.

I followed the knowledge base and updated the drivers to the 64 bit like instructed. That didnt work. SO I updated to the cs2 build, still didnt work. This time It wouldnt even read that the hardware was there. SO I uninstalled the drivers again and reinstalled the 64 bit ones again and it reads the mbox now but is crashing at Creating DEA again.

Only part I can read on the blue screen is something like driver not equal to or greater.


I am running pro tools 8 LE Mbox 2 Mini
Win 7 64 bit
6gb ram
Intel Core i3 CPU [email protected] 2.93ghz

Please tell me what other info you would need to help me and I will get it for you ASAP.


I think I am going to try with the new 32 bit drivers and see if that works

[sw rec]

32-bit drivers on a 64-bit platform will probably only make it worse (as if...)
Not too many fans of this Win-7 "compatible" release.

[Nyhmesis]

that is what I figured. I just cant figure it out seeing as how it worked just fine for 2 months and then out of now where BAM.

[sw rec]

A full-on sandra report would cetainly help. BUT, and that's a BIG but, that 64-bit Win-7 PT release is FULL of inconsistencies. And it's normal for it to seem to work fine, and then BAM. Which interface?