Crash

[Bassballjg]

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.

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?

[Bassballjg]

Sorry, wrong forum. Sleepy and got mixed up in the drop down forum menu. Please see here:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 43#2591643