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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 1:47 AM (permalink)
My advice would be to first- get your RAM specs from the manufacturer. IE- Timing, speed, latency and enter into BIOS manually. Do not use your BIOS auto select for RAM. Especially if you are using one of the newer Corsair or Crucial memory modules. Then run memtest or any good memory checking software if you are still having problems. Don't run a memory checker until you know you have the settings correct in BIOS. If the settings are not correct, the tester will probably tell you that your memory has problems. If you still have problems after eliminating RAM, change your power supply. Use your old one to test or just box the new one up and exchange it at your vendor. I just realized you didn't say if other programs crashed. Is it just Sonar? That would probably change everything if all your other stuff works fine. Try running defrag and see if you can get Windows to crash. Let us know how it goes. Sojourn
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 2:29 AM (permalink)
Larry,

I hate to hear stories like yours. You just spent your hard earned money on a bunch of new stuff that you carefully researched, put it all together... and it's a HUGE let down when it doesn't work. Many of us have seen and appreciate your many posts of advice and experience over the years, and will gladly jump in and help. The good news in all this is that you've got a LOT of experienced users here in this forum... and I can see that you're getting some good advice. I'd like to contribute as well...

1. On more than one occasion in the past, I've encountered similar troubles with no good explanation. Then, after physically reconnecting every single cable and reseating every card and the CPU... presto... eveything is OK. It will take a little of your time, but worth the effort.

2. I concur along with the rest of the group that the issue you're describing could easily be memory related. Please double check the compatibility of the memory to the motherboard, and confirm correct BIOS settings. If you have more than 1 stick of RAM, installing and testing them 1 at a time is also prudent. Memtest, Sandra... good choices for this.

3. Oh, before I go any further, I DO hope you're working with a fresh Windows installation... transferring a hard drive with an installed OS from one motherboard to another is a recipe for disaster.

4. Again, on numerous occasions in my former life as a PC repair instructor, I traced otherwise unknown causes of random crashes to a functioning but ultimately unstable power supply. I cannot stress enough the importance of a solid and reliable power supply. Seasonic (and Corsair) are at the top of that list. So, if you have another power supply on hand, it's worth a swap out to test if you've exhausted other possible causes.

5. You mentioned crashes every 5 minutes or so. Check your CPU temp in BIOS to ensure it is not overheating and shutting down. Sometimes its as easy as forgetting to plug in the CPU fan lead. Or, the CPU heatsink may not be making a good solid contact with the CPU. Quality (and not too much) thermal grease such as Arctic Silver 5 or the new Zalman thermal compound are excellent choices here.

Hope this helps... I'd need more specific system specs (model #'s, etc.) for further advice.

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 3:03 AM (permalink)
ORIGINAL: mr. moon

Wow...

I must be on everyone's ignore list...



Oh well, good luck anyways.

-mr moon

No, Moon, you're just overshadowed by CW's very selective responses to trouble here. I think the nose needs to be a certain shade of toffee to warrant a response.

Play On.
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 3:07 AM (permalink)
ORIGINAL: Staccato

ORIGINAL: mr. moon

Wow...

I must be on everyone's ignore list...



Oh well, good luck anyways.

-mr moon

No, Moon, you're just overshadowed by CW's very selective responses to trouble here. I think the nose needs to be a certain shade of toffee to warrant a response.


Oh no not again....sigh

Let's see, where have I heard this before?....hmmm
post edited by Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk] - February 10, 07 3:50 AM

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 3:49 AM (permalink)
Hey guys,

I posted a very simliar post to the original poster of this thread a few hours earlier. Anyway, there is some valuable advice in this thread and I'm not trying to hijack the thread but I'm a little desperate for advice. Here is what I've been dealing with.

Ever since installing 6.2 I've been having frequent crashes. More specifically:

Error - Unhandled Exception

A fatal error has occured.

Module D:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
Exception code C0000005
Address: 7C911C20:0519F158:0519F1CC

As a result of this error SONAR is about to exit abnormally.
Should SONAR try and save a recovery copy of your work?


After reading through this thread I began wondering if my RAM or PSU could be the culprit. My system is only a few months old and I installed Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme Performance Memory. I'm going to run some mem test and see what happens. If anyone has any light so shed on my erros message I would really appreciate it. I'm getting this crash and error code at least 3 or 4 times an hour and it can happen at any time. For example, when I enable record on a track, close a project or during a rendering operation.

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Corsair ram mentioened above
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Thanks,

Eric
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 4:24 AM (permalink)
another good idea is to check your system and application logs to see if anything pops up. it can be tedious to go through and look at each event as words and as bytes or hwatever the options are. But I have tracked down more than one offending app that way.
Another good one is to make sure your IRQs are all straight and that everything is happy with its drivers.
Good luck!
I feel your pain!

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 5:33 AM (permalink)
I know everyone is alseep right now but I woke up at 4:30 AM this morning to tackle this problem before the next client arrives. If I can't get this resolved in the next hour or so I will put the original hardware back in for the time being and then try it again when I have some free time.

I want to thank you all for responding. Excellent suggestions from all. My first thought was the RAM. Here is the system breakdown:

Intel DG965RY motherboard
Intel Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz processor
GeForce 7300 graphics card 512MB PCIe
Zalman CPU cooler
2GB Crucial DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 memory (2-1GB sticks in the correct slots)
2) 320GB Seagate SATA drives
600Watt PS
Creamware Scope & Creamware XTC installed in two available PCI slots and not sharing any IRQ's with other devices.

I had a problem just finding the right RAM chips which is what makes me suspicious. I checked Intel's website for approved vendors/PN's and chose Crucial parts (bought direct from Crucial). I don't see any other strangeness. Everything else works flawlessly. Just Sonar crashing all the time.

These were completely fresh installs of the OS and the software/drivers, etc. WinXP is running in normal mode with a number of audio tweaks (just the ones that seem important enough to implement). I'm pretty sure everything is seated properly but I will check again. I was pretty cautious about that when I was assembling everything.

I am going to try to adjust RAM timing and see if that helps. I have suspicions about that anyway so that would be a good place to start. Thanks guys! I will let you know if there is any improvement. I have back-to-back sessions this weekend and probably no time to futz with this until sometime next week. I will try the other things you mentioned too.

Thanks again!
post edited by krizrox - February 10, 07 5:56 AM

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 6:01 AM (permalink)
I can't help at all, Larry, but I hope things work out for you. You're lucky to have pretty good computer skills,,, imagine what a total disaster this would be for a computer lamer like me. cheers buddy
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 6:17 AM (permalink)
Hello krizox
I have read thru your thread about your problem, and one question I will ask, I see you have 2 SATA Hardrives, How did you get Windows XP to recognize the controllers for the SATA drives. I am in the middle of a situation where as I am learning this communication with the SATA harddrives is something that needs to be carefully addressed. Just food for thought. Good Luck Tom
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 7:40 AM (permalink)
Addressing the SATA drives wasn't an issue for me. Everything installed and partitioned like normal. I installed WinXP Pro (SP2) on my primary partition (for Sonar and recording) and WinXP (SP1) Home on a second partition (for internet surfing and general office work).

I was worried about that at first too but nothing bad to report there. It all worked just like a regular IDE drive. Plug it in, load windows, do your partitioning and away you go. I hope you have the same success. I didn't have to load any external drivers or anything. The one thing that should have caused a headache, didn't

Here's an update:

I played around a bit with memory timing and all that. Didn't make a difference. As a last resort I decided to reinstall Sonar 6 and it seems to have improved the situation. This was originally a fresh install. My confidence isn't 100% yet but it hasn't crashed yet after about 15 minutes of serious testing. Prior to this I could make it crash after 2 or 3 minutes. I could make the problem appear by simply arming tracks for recording. I have, in some of my projects, grouped maybe 8-10 tracks for recording. Arming and unarming tracks would usually always cause a crash. I didn't even have to record any audio. I still notice that when arming multiple tracks like that, they arm slowly and randomly - not simultaneously like in previous versions. That bug has not been fixed in V6.

Anyway, this was a positive step. It could be that I had an unfriendly VST plug-in. I haven't installed the 6.2 update yet. That might have a bearing too. btw - are we supposed to install the 6.0.1 update before installing 6.2? That's how I did it originally. I wasn't sure if that might have had a bearing on this or not. I also increased my picture cache to 1000MB (it was originally set to 500MB) and removed whatever was in there from before.

Well, I'm going to risk it and run some sessions today and see what happens. If I get a BSOD I'll make note of the error codes and whatnot and report back. Again - thanks guys for your help! I'd buy ya all brewskis if you were here
post edited by krizrox - February 10, 07 8:02 AM

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 7:44 AM (permalink)

ORIGINAL: krizrox

btw - are we supposed to install the 6.0.1 update before installing 6.2?

not necessary, 6.0.1 patches included in 6.2
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 9:25 AM (permalink)
Thanks - maybe that will make a difference.

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 10:04 AM (permalink)

ORIGINAL: Thomassonar5

Hello krizox
I have read thru your thread about your problem, and one question I will ask, I see you have 2 SATA Hardrives, How did you get Windows XP to recognize the controllers for the SATA drives. I am in the middle of a situation where as I am learning this communication with the SATA harddrives is something that needs to be carefully addressed. Just food for thought. Good Luck Tom


I had to do the old F6 trick to load my SATA drivers from a floppy during the initial load portion of the XP install. When you begin installing XP, keep your evey on the bottom of the screen while it is loading the basic I/O drivers. At some point it will tell you to hit the F6 key if you want to load any 3rd party drivers that windows XP install doesn't automatically recognize. At that point...nothing will happen. You'll think it ignored you, but it didn't. Eventually, the installation process will stop and ask you for a floppy disk containing the 3rd party drivers you mentioned earlier. SO, you must have a floopy drive, a 3.5" floppy disk, and the drivers for the controller(s) your trying to load. My current mobo has two different sata controllers on it. Neither of them are recognized by the XP installation. SO, whenever I rebuild, I do this. I've done it a million times, though. Back when I was building servers, I would always have to F6 the installations to shim it with SCSI RAID controllers and such.

Hope this helps!

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 10:18 AM (permalink)
ORIGINAL: mr. moon
Start troubleshooting by checking all cables & connectors (including memory seating), system temps of CPU and MB, and resetting the BIOS to default/non-aggressive settings appropriate for your components, and then by running the following test utilities, in the following order (each for several hours or until the errors start):

1. Memtest86 v3.2 (link)

Note that that version hasn't been updated since 2004. A newer version is at Memtest86+
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 10:24 AM (permalink)
The memory is prime suspect. Larry did you use the same HD from the old system? Whenever I reinstall I usually DELETE the partition and not just FORMAT it to make sure nothing remains. I have seen those crashes generally when a hard drive is retiring.

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 12:24 AM (permalink)
Hi Kriz,


I know I'm harping on this...
But you can purchase the best RAM and Motherboard that money can buy... and that's still no guarantee that they're 100% compatible. Sure... for many tasks (especially those less RAM intensive), the system could very well appear to be working great.

FWIW, I've built a heck of a lot of DAWs... and I'd almost guarantee that the situation is RAM (either bad stick or compatibility) related. Motherboard would be a distant second culprit...

This situation is obviously causing a lot of grief.
I'd suggest going to a local computer super store... and picking up a different brand of RAM.
Pop that RAM into the system and run Memtest. If you don't receive any errors from Memtest, run the DAW with the new RAM for a couple of days. Worst case, (if there's no change) you'd have to return the new RAM for a refund. Best case, for a couple hundred bucks... your system is rock-solid.

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 1:05 PM (permalink)
With all due respect to Larry, I wonder if you're getting the message? The voices have turned into a chorus. Larry, you NEEEEED to run a heavy hitting session of memtest! Download an ISO from here: http://www.memtest.org/ then burn it onto a CD... then boot up with that CD and memtest will start running. Let it run overnight, minimally. 24-48 hours is even better. I ALWAYS do this now with every build I put together.

If memtest passes, then load up windows and run a heavy burn-in session of Sandra.... details have been given elsewhere on that I'm sure.

If you pass a heavy memtest and Sandra phase and are still getting weird crashes, then it is probably the power supply. Just some joe-consumer average 600W power supply won't cut it for a DAW (I'm not saying you bought one of those, but you didn't list your make and model in your specs). You need a workstation-level power supply. I use Seasonic and SilverStone. There are many other great ones.

Those three steps above have solved 95% of my strange crash problems on all the computers I've built.
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 1:12 PM (permalink)

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With all due respect to Larry, I wonder if you're getting the message? The voices have turned into a chorus. Larry, you NEEEEED to run a heavy hitting session of memtest! Download an ISO from here: http://www.memtest.org/ then burn it onto a CD... then boot up with that CD and memtest will start running. Let it run overnight, minimally. 24-48 hours is even better. I ALWAYS do this now with every build I put together.

If memtest passes, then load up windows and run a heavy burn-in session of Sandra.... details have been given elsewhere on that I'm sure.

If you pass a heavy memtest and Sandra phase and are still getting weird crashes, then it is probably the power supply. Just some joe-consumer average 600W power supply won't cut it for a DAW (I'm not saying you bought one of those, but you didn't list your make and model in your specs). You need a workstation-level power supply. I use Seasonic and SilverStone. There are many other great ones.

Those three steps above have solved 95% of my strange crash problems on all the computers I've built.


While this is a must, the 1st step would be to adjust the BIOS settings to best accommodate the RAM. The RAM may be in perfect shape, but if the settings that control the interaction between the RAM and the rest of the system are off, it will 'appear' to be bad when running memtest or any stress testers (Sandra, etc.). Running these programs before adjusting the settings can lead to false positives/negatives.

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 1:14 PM (permalink)
Hi Larry

I feel bad after you helped me get my S6 going, that your new system is giving you trouble

My first guess would be memory chips, then component drivers.

FWIW the 6.2 patch has been stable for me, just getting used to the new locations is all

Hope you get it all sorted out

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 1:30 PM (permalink)

ORIGINAL: tarsier

ORIGINAL: mr. moon
Start troubleshooting by checking all cables & connectors (including memory seating), system temps of CPU and MB, and resetting the BIOS to default/non-aggressive settings appropriate for your components, and then by running the following test utilities, in the following order (each for several hours or until the errors start):

1. Memtest86 v3.2 (link)

Note that that version hasn't been updated since 2004. A newer version is at Memtest86+



Huh, I guess you learn something new every day! Thanks for the link, tarsier! Perhaps you could email me a quick message to let me know how well this new version has worked for you, as I've not used it before, as I don't run DDR2 or anything like that.

Thanks!

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 1:58 PM (permalink)

ORIGINAL: manthe


ORIGINAL: eratu

With all due respect to Larry, I wonder if you're getting the message? The voices have turned into a chorus. Larry, you NEEEEED to run a heavy hitting session of memtest! Download an ISO from here: http://www.memtest.org/ then burn it onto a CD... then boot up with that CD and memtest will start running. Let it run overnight, minimally. 24-48 hours is even better. I ALWAYS do this now with every build I put together.

If memtest passes, then load up windows and run a heavy burn-in session of Sandra.... details have been given elsewhere on that I'm sure.

If you pass a heavy memtest and Sandra phase and are still getting weird crashes, then it is probably the power supply. Just some joe-consumer average 600W power supply won't cut it for a DAW (I'm not saying you bought one of those, but you didn't list your make and model in your specs). You need a workstation-level power supply. I use Seasonic and SilverStone. There are many other great ones.

Those three steps above have solved 95% of my strange crash problems on all the computers I've built.


While this is a must, the 1st step would be to adjust the BIOS settings to best accommodate the RAM. The RAM may be in perfect shape, but if the settings that control the interaction between the RAM and the rest of the system are off, it will 'appear' to be bad when running memtest or any stress testers (Sandra, etc.). Running these programs before adjusting the settings can lead to false positives/negatives.



Too true, you've got make sure the RAM settings are correct in the BIOS. I just assumed that was obvious. :) I second that... so before you do anything else, check the RAM settings and compatibility. Even truly awesome and expensive RAM may not work properly on some motherboards due to BIOS settings.

But once you've confirmed the RAM settings, it's off to memtest for a heavy session.....
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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 2:13 PM (permalink)
Holy cow... talk about too much of a good thing... this forum is too damn smart for it's own good!

Cakewalk, consider making this thread a sticky... you know: the canonical "my system is unstable, please help!" thread. Lots of excellent suggestions in here for top-down trouble shooting... and the type of thread that pops up at least a few times per year.



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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 2:47 PM (permalink)
I'm keeping my fingers crossed but I believe this issue has been put to rest. The "fix" was to reinstall Sonar. I have yet to install the 6.2 upgrade but I just finished a session and so far so good. Thanks to Noel and the guys from Cakewalk for posting a response to all this in another thread. There were a number of people experiencing the same crashes and error messages as I'm finding out. Exactly why this is happening is a mystery but somehow we must be installing the software improperly. Frankly, I'm not sure where in the process I might have screwed up. It was a completely virgin install on a virgin drive. I guess that doesn't mean anything but in any event, uninstalling and reinstalling Sonar seems to have done the trick. I will know more by the end of the day tomorrow when I finish up with the weekend recording sessions. I'm a little more confident now than I was yesterday. I was freaking out man. Every 5 minutes a different error message would appear along with the occasional BSOD. That was a wild ride.

Thanks to all for constructive feedback - greatly appreciated! I hope I can return the favors sometime. :-)

I will say this - the new system is a screamer. CPU usage has dropped to about 2-5% (well, I'm using Creamware Scope so all my plugs run from DSP resources).

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RE: I don't even know where to begin :-( February 10, 07 2:53 PM (permalink)
Great news, Larry,
Glad to Hear it.
Rock ON
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