Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) when using NORMALIZE effect

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Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) when using NORMALIZE effect

Post by hsmithbrcm » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:39 pm

I don't know if this is related to the recent "Crashing Audacity" post but I can get a BSOD just by 'NORMALIZING' the audio from an audio-book recording. Actually using the ctrl-R repeat function of normalize. Other than deleting small sections and silencing others, that is ALL I was doing. It's happen three times now.

I am using a Dell 8400 with 2-Gig of ram and plenty of disk space.

the info on the BSOD is:

DRIVE_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

STOP 0x000000D1 (0x00000028, 0x00000008, 0x00000000, 0xB1D1A2F9)

P17.sys Address B1D1A2F9 base at B1CFA000 DateStamp 40C68F2A.

Question: From previous posts, would setting the peak level in normalize to -6 dB take care of this?

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Re: Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) when using NORMALIZE effect

Post by steve » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:49 pm

That looks to me like a soundcard driver problem (unless anyone knows better)
If you have a PCI soundcard and on-board sound (built into the motherboard) you should disable the on-board sound in BIOS.

If you only have on-board sound, look on the motherboard manufacturers website for an updated driver.
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