System Locks Up

[LifeNo5]

Using the Microstudio2312 demo, I was completely successful in producing a cdg from several manufacturer disks that worked perfectly on my player down to the last track. After purchasing and installing Microstudio2314 and following the directions for the system device settings, I have the following probems: When I try to Read CD Tracks my system locks up and I have to do a hard reboot. When I try to Play or Write Cd, the same thing happens. The only thing I have been able to do is use the Custom Assembly and Import Tracks one at a time to the hard drive. I am using Windows 98SE and a Yamaha CRW8824E writer. I was so hopeful this product would work for me. Any suggestions??

[George]

Assuming that DirectX 8.0 or better is installed, I believe I'd completely uninstall Microstudio and start fresh. May have a glitch in the download. That failing, search the Microstudio Forum and see if the answer is there.

Take care,

George

[LifeNo5]

Thanks for all the information. I installed the latest version of DirectX which still didn't help the lock-up problem but I found a suggestion from Rocketrider posted on 1/6/02 regarding the ASPI drivers in respect to Windows ME. Although I am running 98SE, I gave it a try and it fixed the lock up problem. Then I experimented with the read/write speeds and at 4x made an absolutely perfect copy. YAHOO!!!!!

Hope this might help someone else with similar problem.

[George]

Sorry I forgot about the ASPI drivers. Could have saved you some time, but thought I'd seen something in one of the threads about locking up but couldn't remember what, and hoped you'd run across it. Good for you.

Take care

George

[gladu2]

I'm not sure what write speed your recorder is capable of LifeNo5, but there's a couple of things you can try to reduce the occurance of errors from happening and possibly boost up your write speed while running microstudio. I also run Windows 98 SE, Microstudio 2.314, I use an Iomega recorder that is a Plextor clone. I now make my CD+G backup copies at the maximum read/write speed the recorder is capable of 32Xread/12Xwrite, this wasn't always possible until I did the following things- 1. I restart my computer between making copies to refresh the computers memory. 2. I turn off my virus protection and firewall so no utilities are running in the background that can cause errors. 3. I clean the original CD+G with a commercial quality disk cleaner.
If you do these things and follow MTU's advice for settings, I think you should be able to increase your write speed, unless there's an issue with
your CD writer I'm not aware about.
Mike G.