sjoens Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 (edited) Periodically I get this warning during a session. Never got it before a week ago. Funny thing is the interface still works after I click OK. However, when the warning is being generated behind the scenes it locks the whole system, freezing the mouse, and the lighted keyboard goes dark, until the warning appears. Once it does I click OK and everything is back to normal. Almost seems like a virus. All thru the process the audio continues uninterrupted. Correction: Audio stops until this window appears, then sometimes it starts up again on it's own and sometimes I have to click OK, Edited Tuesday at 07:08 PM by sjoens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass Guitar Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 I had to put my Motu M4 off to the side as starting about a month ago it was bonking out all the time. Random stuff like distorted audio. I wonder if a W11 update is to blame? I have 2 other interfaces but I prefer the monitor set of the M4. Im using the SSL2 right now and it sucks with the headphone level. I have to max it out. And same with the Main output. It also creates 4 versions of itself in all my audio apps. Not impressed with it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted September 5 Author Share Posted September 5 I've been hit with a lot of Win10 updates as it comes to it's end about the time this started happening, so I too wonder. Or maybe it's a bad cable. 🤔 But that wouldn't affect the entire system . . . would it?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass Guitar Posted Saturday at 01:35 AM Share Posted Saturday at 01:35 AM All I can say is that computer systems suck. There are days when I get tempted to dust of my 8 track! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Saturday at 01:51 AM Share Posted Saturday at 01:51 AM 8 hours ago, sjoens said: But that wouldn't affect the entire system . . . would it?! Things that delay some systemwide process or something that's in a high priority or realtime process could cause an apparent temporary system freeze or pause, until the process finishes or releases. I had this with one of the external video "displaylink" boxes for a while, regardless of which driver was used...but the same drivers on a different displaylink box worked fine. It would be a randomly timed thing, and it would usually just hang for a second or two, just long enough to be nearly sure that the system had frozen, then it would come back. Really annoying. I forget which diagnostic I used, probably ProcMon, to eventually find the culprit, and that's when I tried a different DL box i already had, and fixed the issue. Same cables, so it was something in the box (but could have been a connector). On my present laptop i had something that would pause like this, and sometimes actually BSOD, but nothing ever told me exactly what it was; the crash dumps (when they happened at all) were incomplete. My only clue was that almost everytime there was an audio buffer repeat d-d-d-d-d- you know the sound, immediately before the pause or crash. Eventually I fixed it by uninstalling and cleaning out all traces of the realtek audio drivers for the built in hardware. Something is probably just wrong with that hardware somewhere, as it didn't matter what version of driver was used for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Saturday at 02:01 AM Share Posted Saturday at 02:01 AM 14 minutes ago, Bass Guitar said: All I can say is that computer systems suck. Yes, and even worse are people with computers that have problems (usually caused by them), when you're the tech that has to fix them. That's why I went to work at a pet supplies store after CompUSA went out of business a couple decades ago instead of running a techshop somewhere else. Pets and people with pets are MUCH MUCH nicer, even when there are problems, than computers and people with computers (even when there aren't any problems). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted Saturday at 03:08 AM Author Share Posted Saturday at 03:08 AM 1 hour ago, Amberwolf said: Pets and people with pets are MUCH MUCH nicer Until they aren't and bite you or chase you down the street trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Saturday at 04:27 AM Share Posted Saturday at 04:27 AM Pshaw....bites are nothing compared to the way people with computer problems treat the tech trying to help them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted Saturday at 08:12 AM Author Share Posted Saturday at 08:12 AM Sorry to hear that. I never heard or seen it happen in the school district where I worked for years. Staff really counted on them and treated them pretty good AFAICT. Of course . . . they mostly use macs. But even the local repair shops were pretty low-key, tho covid pretty much killed them all off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass Guitar Posted Saturday at 02:53 PM Share Posted Saturday at 02:53 PM Kinda of obvious but you did disable USB power saving mode? That would explain why the Motu would shut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted Saturday at 11:21 PM Author Share Posted Saturday at 11:21 PM Most definitely, Nothing is allowed to be turned off in Control Panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted Tuesday at 07:05 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 07:05 PM The system can run for several hours before the warning is thrown. I uninstalled everything MOTU and reinstalled the drivers, so time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted yesterday at 04:04 PM Share Posted yesterday at 04:04 PM Maybe the board is going bad or a heat issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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