[Skimmertalk] CwSkimmer 1.8 problems

[Mark Sihlanick]

thanks to N6TV, N4ZR, and K1TTT for suggestions.

Yesterday, I ran chkdsk with no issues, so figured I'd run the memory test
as well, I mean how
long could that take?  Well about 8-9 hours later it was done with no
complaint.

The CwSkimmer.exe is in the program files location and as shown in its
properties it is configured to
run as administrator.  I open it by double clicking on the .exe

I can initially edit the skimmer ini file and save it.

After the system ran over night, and with the system apparently working, (I
could get telnet
responses from it) I attempted to edit the ini file again but this time
Notepad Indicated "Not
enough memory is available to process this command".  I then went to open
the event log,
which gave the Microsoft Management Console error:

MMC cannot open the file C:\windows\system32\eventvwr.msc.

I attempted shutdown after this which was incomplete after 5 minutes or so,
and since the disk
access led had stopped flashing I power strobed it.

After restart I looked through the event log. It didn't like my incomplete
power down, complained
about not being able to start Xonar U5, which I had removed from device
manager and uninstalled
days ago, and some week old disk access issues reported by the audit
process.

I don't know enough to find the smoking gun, if there is one, in the event
log.

It is possible this problem has nothing to do with cwskimmer, and is just a
system instability. I may
try leaving the system up with nothing running and see if the memory bleed
occurs on its own.

In the meantime, I've got another old dual core I'll try to get going.
With two systems, I can get
twice as confused at a faster rate. This is all for a second 6M skimmer to
catch e skip season.

Mark n2qt


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:26 AM, David Robbins <k1ttt at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> that sounds more like windows is running out of memory or some other
> resource.  I would bring up the resource monitor before you start the
> skimmer and watch it while you open and close it a few times.  also check
> the event log to see if it has more information or other errors like disk
> access problems.
>
>
> May 11, 2016 07:12:35 PM, n2qt.va at gmail.com wrote:
>
> ok this is driving me nuts.
>
> I have a new install of Win 10 Pro 32 bit, new install of CWSkimmer 1.8
> all on an older dual core Dell Optiplex 755.
>
> The CWskimmer is set to run by Administrator when it is invoked. I start
> it from its file location to avoid using a shortcut
> that may complicate things.
>
> Everything works, can shut and restart CWskimmer . . . until it doesn't.
> This can be in time duration from a couple to many
> hours, it never runs more than a day. There is generally no complaint and
> it runs fine until I try to shut it down.
>
> The failure message when trying to shutdown CwSkimmer is:
>
> Unable to write to
> C:Users\skimmer\AppData\Roaming\Afreet\Products\CwSkimmer\CwSkimmer.ini
>
> my user account (the only one on this machine) is skimmer to explain that.
>
> I cannot end the CWskimmer task by clicking close or the Red X box. If I
> do a ctrl-alt-del to get to task manager to
> close it there, I get this error:
>
> The sign-in process couldn't display security, and sign-in options when
> Ctrl-Alt-Delete was pressed. If Windows doesn't
> respond, press Esc, or use the power switch to restart.
>
> Esc doesn't do anything, left clicking the WIndows Icon in the lower left
> of the screen does nothing but right clicking the
> Windows icon does open that menu and give the option to shut down, which
> it does.
>
> Restarting, everything is good, can shutdown and restart CwSkimmer at will
> until it doesn't.
>
> I assume I have some privilege violation that comes up over time, but I
> don't have a clue. Only other thing on this machine
> that may be questionable is the Quartet soundcard. This card is an orphan
> and I'm running the last beta release driver for it.
> I like how this soundcard works, but will replace it with something else
> if there are no other suggestions.
>
> Mark n2qt
>
>
>
> Mark. N2QT
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