It began simply enough as one of those times when a host and a VST don't get along. Now it's out of control. About midnight, I loaded an effect in VSampler and it froze. Ok, but then it wouldn't close and was spiked at 100% of cpu. I did ctl-alt-del, and nothing. Maybe an hour later, I got task manager, but it opened to the performance page, rather than the application page so There was no chance to close VSampler, because clicking on the applications page tab did nothing but after a while, the gui whited out, then came back to the performance page. About 40 instances of task manager were open by this time, though I had keyed ctl-alt-del only 3 times.
At approximitely 4 am, the start menu finally came up after I had clicked on it 2 hours earlier. I finally got to click on restart, and at first, there was some progress. I was asked to end some unresponsive processes, including my audio drivers. The number of open task amagers was reduced to 33. That was before 5, but now it has been status quo ever since, still at 100%cpu and 398 megs of ram in use.
Since the only thing I can do now is to unplug the machine, I'm assuming that the computer is a total loss, and that I will need to reinstall windows and all my apps. That is, if the motherboard survives the electrical shock. My question is, what is the possibility that the data stored on my slave hard drive will survive?
Originally mistakenly posted in the wrong forum.
Crash
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- KVRian
- 1327 posts since 8 Nov, 2003 from DC
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- KVRAF
- 6323 posts since 30 Dec, 2004 from London uk
Your data (as long as it was stored on the slave drive and the slave drive is working) prior to the crash should be ok.
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- KVRAF
- 16866 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
I would have unplugged it some hours earlier 
I think all will survive, no reinstall required normally.
Windows will scan the disks for errors automatically.
Is your slave drive external or internal?
Internal is probably OK, with external I'd try to perform the "remove hardware safely" routine.
I think all will survive, no reinstall required normally.
Windows will scan the disks for errors automatically.
Is your slave drive external or internal?
Internal is probably OK, with external I'd try to perform the "remove hardware safely" routine.
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- KVRist
- 354 posts since 27 Apr, 2007
UltraJv wrote:Your data (as long as it was stored on the slave drive and the slave drive is working) prior to the crash should be ok.
Yeah, +1BertKoor wrote:Internal is probably OK, with external I'd try to perform the "remove hardware safely" routine.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1327 posts since 8 Nov, 2003 from DC
All turned out well after the unplug. I panicked before because the last time I had to resolve a lockup on this computer with an unplugging(which was also caused by an audio app hung up on a plu-in) it did crash the C drive and I did have to rebuild from scratch. It was like deja vu all over again. Thanks to all who replied.
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- KVRist
- 368 posts since 24 Mar, 2005
if it's a desktop....another way to do it is to just flip the power supply switch OFF.
I've got the problem on my desktop that it won't shutdown and no time to troubleshoot what's going on...so when it shuts down and starts to reboot - I flip the switch to OFF and then back ON...ready for a button power push.
Using the switch on the power supply itself will ease your worries of electrical shocks - a safer way than "pulling the plug".
I've got the problem on my desktop that it won't shutdown and no time to troubleshoot what's going on...so when it shuts down and starts to reboot - I flip the switch to OFF and then back ON...ready for a button power push.
Using the switch on the power supply itself will ease your worries of electrical shocks - a safer way than "pulling the plug".