Cubase 5 stuck (endless micro loop)

Cubase
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I recently posted here about installing windows 7.
I used to experience some problems with xp.
Cubase would get stuck when I was mixing or playing a session.
It would hang in a kind of micro loop (as posted here a while ago by someone else).
It does this regardless of the plugins, because every session this happened to had different plugins.
This also started to happen in W7 unfortunately…
The user who also had this problem stated that he had a Q6600 quad core.
Could this be the problem? or could this be a 5.5 issue???
Windows 7 doesn’t crash, but my soundcard and cubase crash.
I also have to restart the soundcard because when I close cubase via ctrl/alt/delete the soundcard still hangs.

This is what I’m using:

UX2 line6 (but i also experienced the problem with a different sound-card so I don’t tink this is the issue here)
W7 32bit with 4GB ram.
Q6600 quadcore processor.
The latest Cubase 5 update.

Is there a chance this problem will go away if I install Cubase 6?
Or should I simply buy another pc?

2

bump… anyone please? just got another crash and a bluescreen after restarting my soundcard…
could it be a hard-disk error??
My sessions and samples are on an internal 1tb hard-disk… the 7200 (or something) rpm type.

3

I could really use some help here…
Just opened my most recent session, this session did crash this morning.
I didn’t even press play and Cubase5 had to close due to an error.
When I reopened cubase I had to switch back to my UX2 line6 soundcard i the Asio settings, but it said Asio open failure and I had to restart my soundcard.
Anyway, here’s the log:

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Cubase5.exe Version 5.5.2 Build 637 - 22.1.2011 18:53

Timestamp is 4c93cb68 (Fri Sep 17 13:11:20 2010)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 5\Cubase5.exe

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address: 776F32F7 01:000522F7 C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll

Registers:
EAX=01fb0006 ECX=00000430 EDX=0038013c EBX=00380000 ESI=003801b4 EDI= 00000000
EBP=0012fa94 EIP=776f32f7 ESP=0012f9c4 CS= 0000001b SS= 00000023 Flags=00210213
DS= 00000023 ES= 00000023 FS= 0000003b GS= 00000000

Float Save:
Control Word= 0000067f Status Word= 00004000 Tag Word=0000ffff
Error Offset= 74364d9e Error Selector=0158001b
Data Offset= 05401aa4 Data Selector= 00000023
Cr0NpxState= 00000000

Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 01 00 89 46 04 39 7d 90 0f 85 10 18 01 00 66
83 f8 20 0f 87 06 18 01 00 3d 00 00 00 10 0f 87

Call stack:
Address Frame
776F32F7 0012FA94 RtlTryEnterCriticalSection+777
776F353A 0012FB18 RtlTryEnterCriticalSection+9BA
74387218 0012FB2C GdipCreateSolidFill+1C7
7436A6D1 0012FB50 GdipCreateMatrix+7A
2A44E695 0012FBE0 VSTPluginMain+B925
2A44595F 0012FBEC VSTPluginMain+2BEF

\

Cubase5.exe Version 5.5.2 Build 637 - 23.1.2011 22:37

Timestamp is 4c93cb68 (Fri Sep 17 13:11:20 2010)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 5\Cubase5.exe

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION

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Cubase5.exe Version 5.5.2 Build 637 - 27.1.2011 21:50

Timestamp is 4c93cb68 (Fri Sep 17 13:11:20 2010)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 5\Cubase5.exe

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address: 00FFC33B 01:00BFB33B C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 5\Cubase5.exe

Registers:
EAX=00000000 ECX=1e964008 EDX=01658bc0 EBX=00000000 ESI=16b805d0 EDI= 00000000
EBP=00000000 EIP=00ffc33b ESP=0011a688 CS= 0000001b SS= 00000023 Flags=00210246
DS= 00000023 ES= 00000023 FS= 0000003b GS= 00000000

Float Save:
Control Word= 0000027f Status Word= 00000120 Tag Word=0000ffff
Error Offset= 00c04c9d Error Selector=051c001b
Data Offset= 0011a6d4 Data Selector= 00000023
Cr0NpxState= 00000000

Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 44 20 14 85 f6 0f 84 af 00 00 00 eb 0b 8d a4
24 00 00 00 00 8b 44 24 14 85 ed 74 5e 0f bf 45

Call stack:
Address Frame

\

Cubase5.exe Version 5.5.2 Build 637 - 1.2.2011 12:24

Timestamp is 4c93cb68 (Fri Sep 17 13:11:20 2010)
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 5\Cubase5.exe

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address: 76FB32F7 01:000522F7 C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll

Registers:
EAX=00000000 ECX=00000ac0 EDX=03ab013c EBX=03ab0000 ESI=03ab9c1c EDI= 00000000
EBP=1df4f5b0 EIP=76fb32f7 ESP=1df4f4e0 CS= 0000001b SS= 00000023 Flags=00010282
DS= 00000023 ES= 00000023 FS= 0000003b GS= 00000000

Float Save:
Control Word= 0000027f Status Word= 0000002b Tag Word=0000ffff
Error Offset= 1ba1134e Error Selector=015e001b
Data Offset= 7c9012cc Data Selector= 00000023
Cr0NpxState= 00000000

Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 01 00 89 46 04 39 7d 90 0f 85 10 18 01 00 66
83 f8 20 0f 87 06 18 01 00 3d 00 00 00 10 0f 87

Call stack:
Address Frame
76FB32F7 1DF4F5B0 RtlTryEnterCriticalSection+777
76FB353A 1DF4F634 RtlTryEnterCriticalSection+9BA
1BA86790 1DF4F654 MAIN+B5D00
1BA88A86 1DF4F66C MAIN+B7FF6
1BA1138F 1DF4F694 MAIN+408FF

4

something else that was pretty strange also happened.
I’n my mix session, that uses Superior Drummer I was editing the PSP vintage warmer that was added on the group track and suddenly only the kick drum was to be heard…
This happeden once more a while ago… almost as if all of the outputs stopped working?? Cubase didn’t crash, but I had to restart the session in order to hear all the outputs normally.
Don’t know if this has anything to do with it.

5

So no one knows what might be happening?? great… so I may actually have to buy a new PC