[Skimmertalk] CwSkimmer 1.8 problems

[Mark n2qt]

Win 10 Pro, 32 bit and 4 G ram.  

It's is an optiplex 755 which is said to not on dells win10 list, so the on board audio has
no drivers.  

Would have been so,easy to drop $100 on a better refurb. 

Mark. N2QT

> On May 13, 2016, at 11:51 AM, David Robbins <k1ttt at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> What operating system is it and how much ram does it have??
>  
> David Robbins K1TTT
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> From: Mark Sihlanick [mailto:n2qt.va at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 14:29
> To: David Robbins
> Cc: skimmertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Skimmertalk] CwSkimmer 1.8 problems
>  
> 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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