uh . . . oops

[SeanHannifin]

I was closing Overture and it asked if I wanted to save the changes, and I accidentally hit "no" . . . well, there goes today's work :(

Although, it is kind of funny . . . :D

[FredProgGH]

I was closing Overture and it asked if I wanted to save the changes, and I accidentally hit "no" . . . well, there goes today's work :(

Although, it is kind of funny . . . :D

Happens to everyone at some point- turn that autosave on!! That way you only lose ten minutes work (or whatever you have it set for...)

[jc5]

I am a compulsive 'saver'. I save every few seconds, sometimes even if I haven't made any changes to the score. ;) (no joke!)

After all, you never know when the computer will crash for no apparent reason!

[FredProgGH]

Me too, with SONAR- I save after ever note almost :D It's cool these days because with older versions of Cakewalk saving wiped out the undo history. Well, heck, back then there was only one level of undo anyway...

I got burned myself today, in fact. I record with a Roland VS-2480, and it hardly ever does anything bad. But today I recoreded a bass track, and right while we were listening back to the final track the machine locked up complately and we had to restart it. Second time it's happened in 4 years. The bass player said, "well, you saved it, didn't you??" Uh.... noooooo... I was so into working on the track I never saved it. Had to start over from the top.

That's why I say, if autosave is supported on whatever you're using- turn it on!! :D :D

[Kanjika]

I also compulsivley save. If i minimize my seqencer for a few seconds and am about to open another project i save again even if i saved twice in the last minute, but thats a good thing since my computer randomly crashes and gives me the horrid blue screen :eek:

[Godfrey]

my computer randomly crashes and gives me the horrid blue screen :eek:

Sounds like you may have some software that uses PACE copy protection. Or possibly a bad CPU fan.

[SteveMitchell]

.... and gives me the horrid blue screen :eek:

What's on this blue screen? Does the machine reboot spontaneously or just freeze?

Stevemitchell

[FredProgGH]

What's on this blue screen? Does the machine reboot spontaneously or just freeze?

Stevemitchell
Actually, WinXP can now be set to do either on a critical stop (aka "the blue screen of death"). I just let mine spotaneously reboot- it saves a step.

[SteveMitchell]

Actually, WinXP can now be set to do either on a critical stop (aka "the blue screen of death"). I just let mine spotaneously reboot- it saves a step.

Well, there's actually a third, if not more. If the BIOS detects a NMI or Non-maskable Interrupt, the OS simply drops out to a blue screen @ 80x25 text and passes whatever control to the BIOS. Most of the time, this means a multi-bit parity error in RAM. You'll only see this when there is no OS component in control and it'll say something about a "hardware error". This is what I was thinking Kanjika was seeing.

On a regular blue-screen, you'll see a portion of the kernel still in control writing the memory dump if you've so chosen.

Stevemitchell

[Stephanie Pray]

Oh yes. The blue screen of death. I've seen it many times. It seems to happen to me when I draw too much from the CPU. I know that when the peak usage is over 100% that I only have a few seconds to stop and save or else... :eek:

[SeanHannifin]

I seem to get the blue screen of death about once a week . . . usually I load up a bunch of windows, with GPO studio always open and it just eats away the resources until . . . . crash!

Btw, I don't think Overture SE has autosave . . . :(