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jazzsongs · Posted - Sun Aug 10, 2003 8:35 pm

Hi,

I know this topic has been covered perviously but I still have a problem with CEP 2 freezing on my Gateway 400 P2 Win 98 SE computer. I am recording line in from a mini disc recorder into the stereo line-in mini plug. I have freezes occur anywhere from 5 - 45 minute jobs and I have to power down to restart.

I've tried defragging disc, upgrading my SB sound card driver, minimizing the record window while recording and trashed all temp files and check files. I've recently given more memory to the Peaks Cache (2048) and maybe that will help. If I try to manually set the virtual memory on my machine I get a prompt saying I may not be able to restart mu computer! I don't want to take a chance unless I know exactly what the best setting is. I've got 128 physical RAM.

PS I have a friend with a P3 Win 98 machine that has the same problem. The problem seems to stem from CEP, not Windows or hardware.

Thanks!

jonrose · Location: USA

Well, I can't remotely diagnose your problem, but don't get too scared off by Windoze messages. Of course they don't want you to change anything...
:D

I'll assume you have plenty of disk space, so;
Since you're got 128MB of RAM, you can set your swap file to something like 384MB - put this value in both the minimum and maximum value-fields of the Virtual Memory dialog box, as this creates a fixed-size swapfile which Windoze won't go resizing on-the-fly while you're trying to do something important - like digital audio...) Then tell Windoze to shove it and reboot. If you really did have a problem booting the computer after that, you can always hold CRTL and start in safe mode, then change it back to something else.
;)

Best... -Jon