4-in-1 freeze before Windows, and DMA disk corruption - Page 2

Kalvos2 · #11 (**permalink**) 21-12-06, 02:33 AM

Tim,

Yes indeed, I could convert them. It's simply a matter of time, finding which disks of the thousands contain WaveZipped content, loading them up, converting them, and re-burning. The good news is that I haven't used WaveZip in about five years -- leaving me only five years of CD-Rs to go through. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

That's what I meant about "living in a constant state of upgrade". The choice is to maintain what I have or convert an increasing repertoire of works.

Let me give one more example -- and I know this is really off-topic for this group, but it is awfully important to me. I have many very complex works done in the 1990s in Cakewalk 6. Already the "bun" (bundle) files can't load reliably into later versions (now called Sonar). My choice is to leave them and maintain a machine with the software, or to squeeze out time to upgrade them all. And there is no time. So the 'safest' route is to maintain or upgrade (as far as it will go) existing equipment to run that software.

It's not only the curse of the digital age. I have a room full of analog equipment capable of playing back odd or multichannel works as old as my earliest electronic pieces done in 1969, with 4-channel stuff starting in 1970. Transfer? Upgrade? The late Michael Gerzon wrote an essay about doing transfers but not trashing the originals because later technology will refine the ability to make transfers. So I'll end up with multiple copies in multiple media and hey, I ain't that good a composer!

As far as AMD and VIA, there was a great enthusiasm for these a few years ago. Perhaps I missed a change, but in the early 2000s, there were Intel issues with sluggishness and the math required for music, so a lot of folks were doing AMD/VIA combos and DAWs are still sold with AMDs. There was a religious character to the debate sometimes, but I went with AMD/VIA and was satisfied. The three Intel motherboards I had were unhappy matches for me, and they ended up on eBay. I found AMD/VIA to be faster in performance at the time -- though I haven't had an opportunity to test this one out yet!

It may be all smoke & mirrors, but until now I've been pretty happy -- and if Dave is right and that rather peculiar Microsoft KB article is true, then throttling back to 512MB should stabilize this archive machine.

Thanks for your suggestions on the software. There's so much material that I never know what application or toolset I might have forgotten in building a composition ... at some point I'll lose one of them and the piece will be dead. (Like me, soon enough!)

Dennis

Kalvos2 · #12 (**permalink**) 21-12-06, 09:22 PM

Dave,

512MB was the key. By using MSCONFIG to limit memory to 512MB, the DMA came up working smooth as a kitten in catnip.

Thanks again,
Dennis

tcsenter · #13 (**permalink**) 22-12-06, 12:32 AM

lol! If you had done that when I recommended it back on December 19th, you could have spared both of us some time and hassle:

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Originally posted by: tcsenter
Also remember to remove one memory module during 98SE setup, or whatever you need to do in order to have no more than 512MB of RAM when installing 98SE.

Kalvos2 · #14 (**permalink**) 22-12-06, 12:48 AM

Because I only have 1GB modules. I don't think I can snap them in half. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] I limited it in MSConfig.

Dennis

tcsenter · #15 (**permalink**) 22-12-06, 12:58 AM

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Originally posted by: Kalvos2
Because I only have 1GB modules. I don't think I can snap them in half. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] I limited it in MSConfig.

Ah, well I did link to the MS Article which describes that work-around by limiting MAX memory in MSConfig, and you did see the article because you commented on the 512MB issue in direct reply to my post. Anyway, glad it is working now.

Kalvos2 · #16 (**permalink**) 22-12-06, 02:18 AM

Oh, no! My deepest apologies. You did link to it ... I guess I was so exhausted (36 hours without sleep will do that when you're nearing 60 years old) that not only didn't I understand it the first time, I didn't even realize it was the same article.

Man, I love sleep. Gonna get me some.

Thanks again for your good humor,
Dennis

davydchong · #17 (**permalink**) 29-12-06, 05:03 PM

Hello,

I did a really stupid thing today by attempting to install the VIA 4-in-1 driver to my computer system which runs on an Intel Chipset. My computer crashed and hung and couldn't even start windows XP. I was brought to the safe mode option page, where I chose 'last good configuration' and this worked. My computer started running normally again.

I would just like to ask whether there is anything else that needs to be done to get rid of the driver? I have ran the program again in order to uninstall the programs.

I did run some software on my computer and there were some blue screen instances... I'm not too sure if its due to the driver or my software error? The blue screens mention something about checking my BIOS and verifying my hard disk space etc. Hmmm... any comments? What else must I do to rid my system of that driver?

Thanks

SaphireX · #18 (**permalink**) 30-12-06, 02:05 AM

Hi davydchong

Try going back to a System Restore point BEFORE you accidentily installed the Hyperions. I would also re-install your Intel chipset drivers as well

Saphire

boyblue · #19 (**permalink**) 30-12-06, 08:19 PM

davydchong

Do a search using * each side of VIA so *VIA* and anything that is VIA will come up, also look in Add remove program and regedit.

verifying my hard disk space right click my computer and see what space is left. Run clean up disk is need be.

Checking the bios we need more info.

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Originally posted by: davydchong
Hello,

I did a really stupid thing today by attempting to install the VIA 4-in-1 driver to my computer system which runs on an Intel Chipset. My computer crashed and hung and couldn't even start windows XP. I was brought to the safe mode option page, where I chose 'last good configuration' and this worked. My computer started running normally again.

I would just like to ask whether there is anything else that needs to be done to get rid of the driver? I have ran the program again in order to uninstall the programs.

I did run some software on my computer and there were some blue screen instances... I'm not too sure if its due to the driver or my software error? The blue screens mention something about checking my BIOS and verifying my hard disk space etc. Hmmm... any comments? What else must I do to rid my system of that driver?

Thanks