003 Console Continuously Going Offline & Online.

[Cgbravo]

Too many hardware problems, so I updated to 8.0.4, things just got worse! As I browse through IE or open folders it goes offline, then back on,then it says welcome to pro tools open session, sometimes the host light just continues to flash and I have to restart, in the middle of a recording session it froze and i got a hi pitch sound going through headphones I couldnt unmute monitors.

Also randomly today my AT4050 had a weird Distortion/Buzz sound, I thought the mic was done for! I tried another daw and it sounded fine, then went back to pro tools and it was good again, i never experienced so much hardware problems in one day. Im scared it might damage microphone cause of what happened earlier and its just slowing me down.

Thanks in advance to whoever can help.

WINXP

PWS T3400 375W (32bit): IntelTM Core®2 Quad Q6600 (2.40GHz/1066MHz/2X4MB L2) 375W

Operating System: Windows XP Professional downgrade
Hardware Support Services: 3 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 3 Year NBD On-Site Service

Graphic Cards: 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX570, Dual Monitor DVI Capable
Chassis Configuration and 1394: Mini-Tower Chassis Configuration

Memory: 4GB, 667MHz, DDR2 SDRAM Memory, ECC (4 DIMMS)

CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices: 16X DVD+/-RW w/ Cyberlink
PowerDVDTM and Roxio CreatorTM Dell Ed

Hard Drive Configuration: C7, ALL SATA, RAID 1for 2 Hard Drives

Boot Hard Drive: 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB

2nd Hard Drive: 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and 16MB 500STA DataBurst CacheT

[Cgbravo]

As I browse and go back and forth through pages it goes offline and it says that a session is CLOSING.????

[fso]

it sounds like a big mess to me...

in this case for me it would be the best to turn off everything, pull all the wires out of anything and start configuration all over again from scratch and think about how to do it better this time... also the pc.. i would just fkn format and configure the machine new with a clear mind and a full backup, of course

also i would recommend not to use internet on the same machine as pro tools, even tough i would disconnect the network interface

[BradLyons]

I would try to find another computer you can use to test this with--that will tell you if the computer is the problem or if the 003 might have a problem.