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Re: Audaity Software shutting my computer down

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:59 pm
by kozikowski
Out of a total of what?

Koz

Re: Audaity Software shutting my computer down

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:59 am
by njs21
80GB TOTAL

Re: Audaity Software shutting my computer down

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:02 am
by kozikowski
That's enough assuming it's defragmented and error free, but even if it's not, it will crash Audacity, not the computer.

I'm about out of ideas. Let's see what the rest of the Audacity elves think.

Koz

Re: Audaity Software shutting my computer down

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:01 am
by njs21
Thanks

Re: Audaity Software shutting my computer down

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:53 am
by waxcylinder
A while back Koz gave this advice to someone suffering a similar problem:
kozikowski wrote:<<<I suspect this is an audio driver problem.>>>

I suspect you have a very unstable machine. How full is your hard drive? No production machine hard drive should be over 90% full.

If that's OK, go into drive Properties > Tools and do the drive error checker--check only. I probably wouldn't do a defragmentation until we find out more. Or do the fragmentation inspection only and see what the display looks like. If it's covered in red lines, that's not a good thing.

If all that seems OK, Microsoft makes a really nice memory tester...

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

...run that overnight.

Koz

This is the full thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7660

The original poster, as you can see from the thread, never came back to say if they got it workig.

But I do suspect that you do have an unstable PC ...

WC

Re: Audaity Software shutting my computer down

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:17 pm
by njs21
Thanks I will give it a try.