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Original Message Date: 02-Feb-04 @ 04:16 PM - PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

Dingostema

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Got one of these annoying problems. My PC seems to shut down periodically when I play or record in Logic and doesnt seem to follow any pattern. It originally sounded like a Hard drive problem so I got a new hard drive, did a fresh install and same shit. During our vocal recording session yesterday it must have shut down (in mid flow) and least 15 times which was sodding frustrating. I am as sure as I can be that it is not a virus and my anti virus s/w is up to date and I have even scanned whilst in safe mode to no avail (it was a good idea Beds!).

My old man who builds and maintains pc's said he has had 5 calls from clients like this in the last couple of weeks, anyone know anything about this before I am forced to systematically replace every bit of hardware in my machine?

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Dingo

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Message 11/47 02-Feb-04 @ 07:51 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

influx

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that would be WRITE down the error code

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Message 12/47 02-Feb-04 @ 08:15 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

xoxos

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mm.. i had one day w/ same thing, but long ago so don't remember - it'd either have been the heat thing or some goofy plugin i tried.

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Message 13/47 03-Feb-04 @ 09:11 AM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

Dingostema

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Now just to make things even more confusing, I left logic playing an audio intensive track all through the night and this morning it was still happily playing along. I am using Logic 5.5.1 and Milan has suggested that this version needs XP's service pack1 which I will try and install. There does seem to be some conflict between logic and a driver called NTDLL.DLL which is in the System32 folder in Windows.

grrrrrrrr,

Dingo

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Message 14/47 03-Feb-04 @ 10:37 AM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

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are u sure it aint a worm ? - (your pop said 5 this week similar hwich usualy is a worm - try some common worm scan d/loads from symantecs site and see perhaps?

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Message 15/47 03-Feb-04 @ 11:27 AM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

Dingostema

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I dont think it can be a worm mate. I have had this problem for about 6 weeks so Symatec would have provided all the virus definitions for NAV by now. I have run several full scans in safe mode and nothing has come up. Like I said, I even though it may have been a hard drive failure so I went and replaced it with a 120g and I've still got the same probs. Still, I have never updated XP so thats my next move.

Dingo

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Message 16/47 03-Feb-04 @ 12:13 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

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Do the Bluescreen thingy. See what the error message says. There is one particular error that you can spend weeks reading about on computer forums. It causes your puter to reboot. I forget what the error is called cuz it happened to me about a year ago but if I see it I'll know it immediately. My solution, and it seemed like there were other solutions from what I read, was to boot my RAM up to 1 gig from 512 mb. Never happened again. For whatever reason XP needs more RAM than previous OSs. Another possible cause but you have to do the bluescreen thingy to find out.

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Message 17/47 03-Feb-04 @ 12:32 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

Dingostema

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I agree, the bastard thing is that as I said before, I left logic playing all night (after setting the bluescreen thingy up) and now the sod wont fall over?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dingo

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Message 18/47 03-Feb-04 @ 06:23 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

Optofonik - AKA, mick, rhyze, etc.

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I had a similar problem recently. I pulled a piece of memory out of my lappy and it went away. Bad memory with only a four year warranty.

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Message 19/47 03-Feb-04 @ 06:57 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

xoxos

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logic 5 requires xp? forget about that..

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Message 20/47 03-Feb-04 @ 07:44 PM - RE: PC Shutdown - aaaarrggghhh

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no, but xp requires all the bugfixes in sp to work better...

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