Hello to everyone!
This being my very first post, I know maybe it is a slight faux pas to start a new topic so soon. But it is the reason I have joined this forum, and hopefully to learn a thing or two about the program as well. I have done a few searches for my problem but haven't found much info.
I first got HW around 3 years ago as the basic version and built a windows PC especially for this purpose. The PC has a small form factor and a small motherboard with only 2 x DDR3 RAM slots. I have had 16gb from the start but with basic was never using all of it. From the start I've suffered random crashes and BSOD halfway through a practice which was incredibly frustrating! sometimes multiple times in a single practice session which makes the practice session very un-productive. The crashes were due to various things but the most common error was due to a problem with the RAM. Recently (last week) I've upgraded to v4.0 advanced hoping to see less crashes by unlocking the extra RAM. From the upgrade and then using a larger organ than the supplied St. Anne's the BSOD became more common, pretty much every 5 minutes constantly and different error codes. Running a memory test revealed both sticks of RAM were completely broken and now trash.
So my question is, does HW wear RAM out? Since the memory is constantly loaded up and being used very hard (and my organ PC was only ever used for playing, never anything else) is it possible the heavy use has broken the RAM eventually? On this subject, is there any particular RAM make/brand/type that is best to run this program? Such that it won't "wear out" and die like mine has. Would be interested to hear what others are using. Because DDR3 is now in quite limited supply and expensive I'm getting new Kingston 8gb x 2. Changing to Mac is completely and absolutely out of the question.
That turned into a bit of a wall of text! I appreciate any information and advice others might give on this subject. And of course, I have another issue I need to ask the collective but on a completely different issue, is it best to ask here or start another topic?
Thanks!
This being my very first post, I know maybe it is a slight faux pas to start a new topic so soon. But it is the reason I have joined this forum, and hopefully to learn a thing or two about the program as well. I have done a few searches for my problem but haven't found much info.
I first got HW around 3 years ago as the basic version and built a windows PC especially for this purpose. The PC has a small form factor and a small motherboard with only 2 x DDR3 RAM slots. I have had 16gb from the start but with basic was never using all of it. From the start I've suffered random crashes and BSOD halfway through a practice which was incredibly frustrating! sometimes multiple times in a single practice session which makes the practice session very un-productive. The crashes were due to various things but the most common error was due to a problem with the RAM. Recently (last week) I've upgraded to v4.0 advanced hoping to see less crashes by unlocking the extra RAM. From the upgrade and then using a larger organ than the supplied St. Anne's the BSOD became more common, pretty much every 5 minutes constantly and different error codes. Running a memory test revealed both sticks of RAM were completely broken and now trash.
So my question is, does HW wear RAM out? Since the memory is constantly loaded up and being used very hard (and my organ PC was only ever used for playing, never anything else) is it possible the heavy use has broken the RAM eventually? On this subject, is there any particular RAM make/brand/type that is best to run this program? Such that it won't "wear out" and die like mine has. Would be interested to hear what others are using. Because DDR3 is now in quite limited supply and expensive I'm getting new Kingston 8gb x 2. Changing to Mac is completely and absolutely out of the question.
That turned into a bit of a wall of text! I appreciate any information and advice others might give on this subject. And of course, I have another issue I need to ask the collective but on a completely different issue, is it best to ask here or start another topic?
Thanks!