[Fourlanders] return to craziness

[Bob Lear]

8/22 update:  Came back from my eclipse trip.  about 3:30 yesterday, 
came out to shack, turned on all computers, ran WL, networked, started 
testing.  6m, 222, 432 and server acting normally and OK. on running WL 
on 2m computer, I got a 'WL Sound Error' message:
C:\Users\HP DC5800\Documents\WriteLog\WaveFiles\msg9.wav  and the [OK] 
box.  No other explanation.  I've never used F9 and I'm sure none of you 
have either.  Anyway, I just clicked OK and WL immediately came up, CAT, 
F2, live all OK.  Network OK.  Left them this way overnight.  I didn't 
come back out as I was tired and Tom Wright N4HN from Charlotte had come 
to visit and we went to dinner.

8/23 update:  Came out about 1PM.  4 computers had screen-saver, 6m 
Not.  All computers on and appeared to be running.  Frequencies shown 
corresponded to radios.  Started around testing.  6m, 222, 432 and 
server all OK.  CAT, F2, live, network, change op, etc.
2m appeared to still CAT but not sure.  Tried first F2, no audio and 
locked up in transmit, wouldn't release short of C-A-D and kill in Task 
Manager, End Task.  Restart WL, PTT and CW lines energized before I even 
got to the choose file screen and WL never started to that point.  
Again, C-A-D to kill it and I shut down computer. Some Task Manager 
message popped up and disappeared to fast to copy.  Restarted computer, 
WL, Test2, asked to recover file (picked up two Q's that had not been 
saved from yesterday), Link to Network, all OK so far.

Try F2, get "WriteLog Sound SendWave Error" 'Capture Thread Exception. 
GetDevice failed'.  Get this on all operators.  Nothing about specific 
msg.wav files that we've seen before.  And while that message is up, the 
radio is in PTT.  Tried Ron's idea about going to 
SetUp-SoundBoardOptions-WaveFileLocation and choosing Open without 
specifying file or sub-directory.  didn't work for any operator. This is 
an error message I've never seen before.  Live PTT and Live audio are 
OK.  Tried to disconnect/reconnect sound card USB per Ron, but no luck 
there either.  Get the SendWave Error message on any Function Key for 
any chosen operator.  I'm out of ideas.  It looks like we should put the 
spare computer in for the 2m computer and do further testing.

Otherwise, everything's fine here (extreme stream of endless cussing....)

Bob