[magnus åkerman]

Hi,

There might be light in the end of the tunnel after all. I’ve done some serious stress testing of the CPU and memory after I did a BIOS upgrade (didn’t even know what the changes were).

But after that I’ve been trying to have the computer to fail with no success and that is a good thing.

Thank for helping me on the right track in the troubleshooting and I hope this work even in the future because I’ve alredy planing to get some more plugin packs like “Metalheads”

Thread can be closed

Best Regards
Magnus

[magnus åkerman]

Hi,
 
Now I have tried the following.
1. Bought a new harddisk 7200rpm, did a fresh installation of windows xp sp3 (no AV or disturbunig programs) only drivers.
2. Installed Prottols LE 8.0.4 with cs2 update
3. Installaed EZdrummer and dfh
 crash….. started up again….crash.
 
Did a RAM test with a tool called “mem test” which gave me no errors (memory seems fine).
I tried to remove 2 out of 3 2GB ram sticks, started everything up and crash when running the drums. I’ve tested every ram stick separatley and they gave all the same results.
 
The computer indicates no errors in logfiles and works fine over all. I can’t stress it to fail unless doing the combination mentioned so many times (PT & EZ).
 
I’m  thinking

[magnus åkerman]

Yes,
But that seems to be my least problem. During the last 5 hours I’ve been installing a copy of window 7 pro 32bit version just to see if it might be root of all evil.
1. Installed Windows with all drivers neccesary – ok
2. Installed Pro Tools LE 8.0.4 – ok (system works fine Pro Tools works with included drums)
3. Installed Pro Tools LE 8.0.4 (cs2) update – ok (system still stable with drums running from Pro Tools)
4. Installed EZ drummer (complete version dowloaded from toontrack site)
5. Installed the 32bit updater.
6. Started Pro Tools and created a blank session with one instrument track, hooked that one up with EZ drummer and it asked for authorization code. Me entered code and pressed enter……. crashed big time.

Started everything up one more timee and changed the playback settings:

H/W Buffer Size: 256 Samples (512 Samples)
Host Processors: 7 (8)

Fired up Pro Tools and launched EZ drummer . . . . . . . . . 20 seconds later hard disk just dies again.

Is there in any way that EZ drummer won’t work with Pro Tools in windows 7 environment, I’ve read something about XP SP3?

[magnus åkerman]

Ok I’ll try that.

Feels that I was getting closer to a sollution now I could play with the EZdrummer for 30 min then came the crash.

It is an windows installer error and it’s presented in Swedish. But it says something like this “Cannot install this update due to the correction file might been made for another version or the update is missing. Check that the program to be updated is installed and that you have the right correction file”

I took a snap shot at the failing point and it seems to fail when trying to extract the “PatchStd.msp”

I’ll try this last tip of yours and give it a try

[magnus åkerman]

Hi,

I’ve updated to Pro Tools 8.0.4(cs2) and reinstalled EZdrummer and dfh. I also tried to install the update for dfh but it did’nt want to.

I changed the settings in playback engine to: (old settings)
H/W Buffer Size: 256 Samples (512 Samples)
Host Processors: 3 (8)
Optimized for streaming content were already unchecked.

I’ll give it a try and get back with the results.

[magnus åkerman]

M-Box 3rd gen Pro Tool 8 LE (8.0.4) can’t find any info on CS (It’s the latest release)

Intel Core i7 950 3070 MHz (4 cores),
Gigabyte motherboard (X58A-UD 3R), Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
RAM 6GB (3 x 2GB modules Corsair)
HD WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 (1TB)
Radeon HD 6800 Series
OS Windows 7 Pro x64
AV Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.5002.333 (x64)

EZ drummer is reporting version 1.2.1 in the down right corner of the interface. I’ve been doing the 32-bit/64-bit upgrade.
If you mean the sample rate used in Pro Tools Hardware setup it is 44.1kHz
When setting up a new session in Pro Tools all parameters are default ie. Bit Depth 24 Bit, Audio file type: BWF(.WAW), Sample Rate 44.1kHz.
I’m new to this so the only thing present in the mix is EZ drummer, no other plugins. 1 drum track and 1 guitar track.

Best regards
Magnus

[magnus åkerman]

Hi Scott,

Thanks and so I did and so far it worked fine.

But when adding EZ drummer in prótool and start a groove it works for a short time the ethe computer crashes.

Is there any memory issues for Windows 7 x64 bit version. I cant se anything in the windows logfiles that a crash or memory event has occured.

I got this all brand new PC (1 day old),

Intel Core i7 950 3.07GHz
6GB RAM
Windows 7 x64

And I’m using a brand new m-box 3rd generation (AVID) with protool LE 8.0.4

I’m confused in what action to take and where to seek for the error, might there be some settings for buffers?

Magnus

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