Craig-I'm Getting The Blue Screen Of Death!

[mix2much]

Hi Craig and everyone-

 

I'm getting a blue screen when ever I try to save a file in sound forge and at various times running cakewalk 9. The computer flashes a screen saying the following:

 

File Name: VCACHE (01) + 000014E1 Error: 0E : 0028 :C004EB7D

 

Unfortunately, I only understand english, so I have no clue what this is trying to tell me. I have a PIII 800 w/320 mgs of ram. I'm running windows ME, but I had this problem running a different OS drive that had 98se on it. I have a 20gig 7200 rpm ultra ata drive running windows me and sound forge 4.5- My other drive is a glyph scsi 7200 project-x 9 gig drive that runs cakewalk pro audio 9. I've used this set up all year without trouble, but ran into problems in the last 2 weeks.

 

 

Do you have any idea what thiese type of errors mean? I just replaced the c drive and still had problems. I keep thinking it's a windows or hard drive problem, but I've tried everything I know. I'm totally baffled.

 

This message has been edited by mix2much@excite.com on 12-19-2000 at 09:29 PM

[not Cereal]

i have that problem with my vcr once in a while.

 

whenever i get to the end of a tape, the screen turns blue and says "rew", then the machine makes a really loud whirring noise.

 

no idea what that means.

 

whats up with that?

 

 

http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Anderton]

>> I've used this set up all year without trouble, but ran into problems in the last 2 weeks.<<

 

Well, if you'd been following my articles, you would have purchased Adaptec's GoBack, set it back 2 weeks, and would be back to where you were before this started.

 

Hey - doesn't Windows ME have some kind of system restore function that's similar? Why not use that? Just make sure to save any data files generated recently. With GoBack, when it restores your computer, if it goes back before a data file existed, it will go away unless you've saved it first (or again, if you've been following my advice, kept your data on a separate drive from your programs).

 

Think about what may have changed recently, and try to restore your system to the way it was prior to these problems occurring.

 

The next step is reinstalling software if all else fails. Try de-installing Sound Forge and Cakewalk. Re-install one. If all is well, proceed and re-install the other. If that solves the problem, great. You might also try de-installing any programs installed within the last 2 weeks in case they're causing a problem.

 

If the system restore function and/or reinstalling software doesn't do the job, I'd recommend re-installing the OS. Drastic, I know, but obviously something is very unhappy.

 

There may be a simplier answer, but I'm not enough of a PC guru to comment any further. Any takers? Does this, by any chance, confirm my suspicion that I'm better off with 98SE then going to ME?

[earfatigue]

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that I'm better off with 98SE then going to ME?>>

 

no, but right about now there's an ever-more-persuasive devil on your left shoulder saying "get the maaaacccccc, geeeettttt the maaaccccc".

 

postcard from the darkside. and the machine runs flawless. even with audio and internet apps holing up on the same boot drive.

 

judson snell

slang music group

[the stranger]

Unfortunately, I only understand english, so I have no clue what this is trying to tell me.

 

I know it's not funny, but that comment made my laugh.

Stupid windows. >:

And what the hell is all this illegal shit that I seem to do every so often?

 

X "BLAM!....This program has performed an illegal crack purchase and will be shut down!"

[Alndln]

Is your Vcache set? If you don't know how go to www.outertech.com and download a free program called Cacheman and set to multimedia.

[Anderton]

>>no, but right about now there's an ever-more-persuasive devil on your left shoulder saying "get the maaaacccccc, geeeettttt the maaaccccc". <<

 

Puhleeze...let's not turn this into another Mac vs. PC thread. Error messages on a Mac are equally uninformative - "this program has shut down because an error of type -32857 occurred." Yeah, great. My Mac screws up, my PC screws up. Get GoBack for Windows and Rewind for the Mac, then nothing will ever cause you problems on either platform.

 

As much as this upsets Mac and Windows aficionados, it's six of one, half a dozen of the other...depends on what applications you want to run more than anything else. Get over it.

[Guest]

As a former tech support person, I'm wary of mixed scsi and 'regular' drive systems. Also I wouldn't download any utility until you get everything working on a CLEAN BASIC system. I don't have any idea what this message means, but I would try the usual stuff like scan disk, making sure you have your virtual memory set up in windows and then contact the appropriate tech support people for the app that causes the error.

[mix2much]

Thank you for your help. I had already tried the "restore" feature on win ME and it still screwed up, so I took another hard drive, re-partioned and formatted it, then tried to install win 98se and got another wierd message in the final stages of installation. I did some research on microsoft's page, and found that a bad stick of ram can cause all sorts of fatal exceptions, etc. So, I yanked my oldest stick of ram out of there, threw in the drive with ME on it, and I am now burning a disc (for back up) of some bundle files for the first time without the computer crashing. I'd usually set easy cd creator to "test & copy" so I could stop wasting cd's cause it would shut down within two minutes of burning. It's been going for over 10 minutes now. I'm holding my breath that this is all it is. Thanks again for all of your suggestions.

[Alndln]

If your "V-Cache" isn't set properly your going to get errors.I only suggested the utility "{Cacheman" if you don't know how to do it manually).The error message your getting is telling you this in plain english.These messages are common if you have over 256 mb of memory and you let Windows manage it.By setting your V-cache properly your creating a swapfile,not only will the blue screen go away(in relation to this problem) you will get much better performance.

[Anderton]

>>If your "V-Cache" isn't set properly your going to get errors.<<

 

Aha - the Vcache thing again. I mentioned in a different thread having major problems with Cubase 5.0 until I resized the vcache to 16K. Then everything started to work fine. But I didn't get any BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

 

But the severity of the problem seems consistent with a RAM problem, right? (With Cubase, things didn't crash, I just got dropouts and such.) Isn't the vcache something that sets aside a portion of RAM? So if you have a RAM problem, it's possible that the vcache could never be set correctly, and that's why you'd get error messages.

[Alndln]

The deal is this,Windows is constantly resizing and poorley managing your ram especially if you have more than 128,yes blue screens are rare but not unheard of in this case,nor are system lockups. Poorly configured vcache takes all the system adresses in the sytem arena,leaving none availible (or not enough) for system files.In this case he is attemting to bring in a file via the tools menu in cakewalk to Soundforge,a very memory intensive operation.In his case Windows told him exactly what it was rather than some undecipherable cryptic message.Your right Craig in that you can never set it perfect,but you can stop windows from constantly resizing it which is murder if your using your PC for audio.

[Anderton]

>>you can stop windows from constantly resizing it which is murder if your using your PC for audio.<<

 

It's worth remembering that Windows is designed for word processors, spreadsheets, etc. It is getting more multimedia-friendly, but I suspect we'll need to wait for Whistler to appear before it truly grows up into something that's comfortable with huge data files.

[not Cereal]

i thought windows was always designed to take your money?