Subject:RAM failure? Gremlins?
Posted by: pb
Date:12/10/2004 5:15:24 PM
I know next nothing about the inner workings of a PC so I thought I'd ask the forum before I take the PC to a repair depot. Sound Forge 7 starting behaving strangely earlier this week in that when previewing the effect of Noise Reduction I could not here the entire three monute clip, no matter howmany times I right clicked then selected all data. It wouldn't preview more than maybe 5 seconds. Checked the preview limit and it was as before: no limit set. Today it began "buiding" a preview on the HD every time I needed to preview the result of an effect or volume adjustment. THe PC is a Pentium 4 2.8 dual processor with 1.5 gigabytes of RAM. All media drives are 10,000 RPM SCSI. This is not good because I get paid for the project, not by the hour and editing has become very time consuming. COuld I have inadvertently changed a setting somewhere????? Peter |
Subject:RE: RAM failure? Gremlins?
Reply by: MJhig
Date:12/10/2004 8:43:21 PM
If your PC is connected to the net you should review this I posted for a similar issue on the Vegas Video forum. I'm not going to edit it to you specific problem but as a PC Doctor it's relevant to all connected PCs and spyware is by far the main problem I encounter in my work. Actually everyone should add these sites to favorites and keep up to date with the philosophy if you want to keep your PC running at it's potential and put those like me out of business :-( Not likely to happen though as most ignore this free advice, don't want to take the time and effort and many just don't get it. Pay now or later ;-) The advice below is at least worth a $100 service charge. Begin other post; this is a problem because popups from the internet come on all the time and screw me over First and foremost this tells me you are infested with spyware robbing your resources causing your PC to creep as it all the while sends data about you to the hackers/marketers. Read thoroughly, carefully, several times here; THE PARASITE FIGHT IE-SPYAD HOST file Secondly, rendering is much more dependent on CPU speed not RAM. Thirdly, unless you absolutely have to be on-line while running Vegas, either don't connect or if you have cable, disable the adapter in Device Manager plus shut down all other background processes that are not essential. This takes research/knowledge, don't just start shutting down things in Task Manager you don't know for sure can be terminated. As a starting point if you have more than... say 7 icons in the systray. Go into those unnecessary program's options and look for the setting to stop them from loading at startup and running in the background. MJ |
Subject:RE: RAM failure? Gremlins?
Reply by: pb
Date:12/11/2004 1:30:02 AM
MJhig, The PC is question does not have even a phone modem in it. I am confident it has no viruses because everything that is loaded into it (and I mean EVERYTHING) is scanned with the most current version of McAfee before being loaded to the hard drives. Any other ideas? Peter |
Subject:RE: RAM failure? Gremlins?
Reply by: Sonic
Date:12/13/2004 7:28:31 AM
Check the "Real-time" checkbox under the Preview button. Also make sure the "Automatic capture timeout" checkbox in NR is unchecked (assuming you've already got your noiseprint). J. |
Subject:Thank you Sonic
Reply by: pb
Date:12/13/2004 11:55:40 AM
Missed the obvious. Guess this is what happens when a PC has multiple users. Everything is okay now. |