Fixing the Invisible Problem posted b...

Fixing the Invisible Problem

Posted on Nov 16, 2009 04:45 am
Runicen
Duke of Stewed Prunes
Member Since: Jun 01, 2007

Hi, all!

It's been a while and I'm back with a shiny new (ish) rig that's presenting me with a whole slew of new problems.

Thinking I was making a good move, I bought a refurbed Gateway from Tigerdirect (at 400 bucks, the 3GB of ram, 2.2 Ghz processor, and 2 500GB hard drives seemed a steal at the time). Unfortunately, once I realized it had me stuck with vista (most of the motherboard functions have no compatible drivers under XP), I had to scramble to find a workable way to record.

Fortunately my Zoom H4 came with Cubase 4 LE. While it's a pain in the wretched arse and doesn't even have backwards compatibility with my old Cubase 2 projects (which, interestingly enough, won't run in Vista...), it allows me to continue working.

However, the last time I attempted to record, I shut down the computer, did a fresh boot, and loaded up and got ready to go. I hit record, realized I'd hit a bum note and hit stop. The computer completely crashed. Utter software meltdown. No idea as to the problem, but it was apparently a big one.

Aside from the fact that Vista is garbage, is this a known issue with Cubase LE 4, or was it likely just a fluke? I seem to do fine with any other software I attempt to use on this box.

While it's not a lot to go off of, I'm just curious if I can isolate the problem (or even if the software itself IS the problem).

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Noize2u
Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Nov 16, 2009 07:17 pm

To be honest I've not heard of anyone having major issues with 4 LE. At least not a crashing problem. I would take it as a fluke for now and maybe keep a watchful eye if it happens again. Keep note of exactly what was running and so on.

I am curious if you had anything else running software wise at the time. That could have possibly been a cause that something was running in the background. Or possibly Vista just happened to phone home at that instant and that crashed it.

Fragile
Member
Since: Sep 30, 2009

Nov 16, 2009 07:30 pm

I've had that happen several times. I'm on XP, but i have plenty of crap junking up my system at the moment. I'm buying a new system in the very near future.

No worries though, while computers really SHOULDN'T crash, this is 2009 you'd think we'd have almost all machines past that error point by now, stuff happens, and they do :\ Reboot, check around your computer to make sure its not a virus and be on your merry little way haha. At least thats my plan.

I second what noize said though, you probably had something else running at the time, whether you were aware of it or it was in the background.

All this being said, Vista BLOWS. I've heard good things about 7, and it does seem set up nicely, but ahh i'm so in the swing of things with xp. Give me all the functions i need, maybe a few fancy things (the snap function seems handy when working on reports or research). But other than that, just make my computer run as quickly and flawlessly as i can, and i'll be happy.