DAMN I HATE MY PC SO MUCH

Liquid_Entity · 6 Jul 2006 at 23:04

Stupid thing.

Whenever I go to record a mix on my decks, I set Soundforge up, close as many processes on the PC as possible, disable firewall & AV and anything else. Defrag the hard drives and everything.

Yet I still get lock ups on my PC. Where it just freezes temporarily for about 40 seconds, then carries on as if nothings happened.

So when I listen back to my mix, the tracks playing then instantaneously it skips 40 seconds or so.

What the hell is wrong with this piece of crud.

AMD XP3200+
2gb Geil Value Ram
Abit NF7 Mobo
Creative Audigy Card

Naffa · 6 Jul 2006 at 23:07

Ain't got a clue :confused:

Your spec should handle it fine. Could be something wrong with your harddrive maybe :confused:

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Liquid_Entity · 6 Jul 2006 at 23:09

naffa said:
Ain't got a clue

Your spec should handle it fine. Could be something wrong with your harddrive maybe .

Well I got 2 Maxtor SATA 120gb drives in.

I originally only had one and it still did it then, and I have since had the O/S on either one and it still does it.

SOmeone might have said to me its a latency problem, but what on ? CPU, Memory or hard drive reading ?

Yewen · 6 Jul 2006 at 23:16

Something is faulty.

Fully updated version of windows?

And does the PC do freezing in any other programs?

Liquid_Entity · 6 Jul 2006 at 23:17

Yewen said:
Something is faulty.

Fully updated version of windows?

And does the PC do freezing in any other programs?

It locks up randomly whenever wherever, but it seems less random when I wanna record a mix, the barsteward knows I need to record thats why !!!!!!

InvaderGIR · 7 Jul 2006 at 00:01

I'd say RAM then.

You'll want to run memtests on each stick of RAM you have, seperatly. This should tell you if any of it is erroring, which it seems to be doing. It's not correctly storing/recalling/dumping the data in the RAM which'll cause lockups.

The reason I say RAM is that the processor should be able to handle it well and it seems to be doing this on heavy load and at random points. If the random points however are when it is also under heavy load then I would point the finger at the 3200+ in which case I'd say if it's possible then you may want to upgrade the whole system a bit.

I could be completely wrong...more informed members will have a better idea.

mrk · 7 Jul 2006 at 00:07

value ram on a 3200+ barton often causes problems. You should ideally have premium matched ram on such a cpu, it's the top end sktA cpu and also *** most demanding so lower quality value ram will be unstable. My corsair value ram crashes games so it's time to upgrade to xms ram on this 3200+.

Rick_Barnes · 7 Jul 2006 at 03:38

put a divider on the memory and run it at half speed and see if the problems go away.

sounds like something horrible software side.

a format and re-install ought to sort you out