X2 Continually Crashing When Recording

Make sure you have no power saving features on. 

Thanks...
 
My thought as well, but I made sure it's plugged in and the power settings for such are Never for all three items... Dim, monitor sleep, and is the third system sleep? They are all set a Never...
 
Is there another place specific to the hard drive itself? Maybe in Administrator|Computer Management?
 
I'm gonna go look there now...
 
Thanks again...
Keni
 

There is a USB Selective Suspend function of Windows that can be turned on or off in the Advanced Power Management Settings.
 
Please note that different versions of Windows may have different wording or be slightly different, but the function does the same thing.  The following is drawn from a computer with Windows 8:
 
1.  Go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings
2.  Select High Performance under Preferred Plans
2.  Click on 'Change Advanced Power Settings' (opens Power Options dialog)
3.  Expand USB Settings > USB Selective Suspend Settings
5.  Set it to 'Disabled'
6.  Click on 'Apply'
 
Work your way back out of the screens (OK, etc)
 
The above tells Windows NOT to ever disable connected USB devices - Sonar gets a bit goofy when devices go away sometimes.
 
Hopefully, the above will help your situation.  
 
Bob Bone

Yeah, unfortunately certain hardrives have little "features" built into them that put the drives to sleep. They can be tricky to get at. Gawd... I can't remember the utility Western Digital uses.
 
I think the place to look for this kind of crap is in the Device Manager, navigate to the hard disk entries and poke around the Properties of the installed drives.
 
Unfortunately (and don't quote me on this) the so called "Green" drives may have these power features built right into the firmware and I don't know if they are accessible. Maybe just try to move the mouse around or something every few minutes to keep things from falling asleep if that is the case.
 
Also on my (Acer) laptop I did a clean install of windows and my hard drive and encountered a familiar problem I had solve previously (after I had done a massive cleanup/disabling of what I thought was bloatware).
 
Many laptops and I'm assuming prebuilt/preconfigd computers will have a hardware management utility installed that makes everything work efficiently. It responds to windows control panel settings or sometimes a GUI for the utility itself.
 
If you disable that power management thingie or uninstall it it can make your hard drives start snoozing. In my case the laptop would start making an annoying click as the heads reset because I had disabled the AcerPowerManagement utility (the first time this happened) or the utility simply wasn't present because of the clean install.
 
In the first case unblocking it fixed the issue (there was some other weirdness going on in regards to the actual provider of the utility going out of business or something so I think Microsoft themselves had to put out a patch) and in the secon ( the clean install) I simply had to download and install the utility from the Acer site then update Windows.
 
Then I just had to make sure in the Windows Power Management settings that the hardrives were set to NEVER go to sleep. This I believe can be achieved by simply setting the Power Management thingie to "Performance" but I prefer to go in and create a custom plan just to be sure.
 
I hope that helps and isn't too confusing/weird.
 
Also... howdy, Kenny. Gald to see you're still rocking' it. ;-)

Might have found the problem...

I saw that the driver was dated 2012 and got suspicious... ;-)

I just installed the current driver (2.21) dated 2014 and I'm now approaching 23 minutes uninterrupted recording without a crash. The best I had previously was a little over 15 so it's better if not perfect. We'll see... If it makes 30 minutes I should be fine...

Sometimes it's the little things? ;-)

Thanks again...
Keni

Ah yes... I just remembered. The WD power management thing is called Intellipower. Lots of info on the net about it. I'm not sure if you can directly fiddle with it but if so it would probably be through the Device Manger Hard Disk properties page(s).
 
Cheers.

0 settings (IIRC) do set many things to "Always On".
 
Third party utility? You mean you downloaded it from somewhere? I don't think you should have to do that. Sounds hinky but whatever works I guess.

The util that displays as the only plan option other than balanced, is called:

Power4Gear Hybrid High Performance

Beepster
So the utility that came with the system? If not I'd check Asus's website (which you probably have) for your model and try to figure out what they use for a power management thingie for that system.
 
However in the Windows go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options.
 
There you should see an option for "High Performance". If not you may need to click a button with an arrow button beside where it says "Show Additional Plans". Switch to High Performance and it SHOULD keep everything important running when the laptop is plugged in (but will use power  saving features when on battery).
 
From there (beside the option you have chosen) you should see "Change Plan Settings". If you click that you can do some minor changes BUT if you click Change Advanced Power Settings on that page then you get at the finite controls. There is an entry for Hard Disk which is pertinent here (as well as USB, CPU, etc). I turn ALL settings to be MORE that I expect to be using the system for. That means the screen (even DIM can potentially screw things up), disks, USB... anything in there at ALL. ALL OF IT! You never know what might make the audio skip or something screwup.
 
It does seem like you've already found all that though.
 
In the sidebar of the Power Options page (which you would be on if you see the stuff I described above) there should be an option called "Create A Power Plan" which will allow you to create a new power plan that will be saved and remembered by Windows and will appear in the list as Custom Plan alongside the Balanced and Performance plans. You can then switch to that whenever you want.
 
So if you don't want those hyper settings I just described you can create a new plan for audio then switch back and forth between plans as needed.
 
Also... you aren't using a USB hub or anything on this system are you?
 
Cheers.

Thanks Beepster...

All appears to be well. It turned out that disabling the USB power option caused it to crash... Once I enabled that again, it crashed once, but after the reboot was working fine... I then lowered the ASIO latency to 256 and I can now record at least 30 minutes with no crash... Probably longer but I haven't bothered to try. It's done 30 minutes plus twice in a row after recording, then shutting down, restarting and recording again... I'm feeling pretty confident in it right now...

Thanks for sticking with me...

Keni