What a bizarre thing!..

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:08 pm

Hello!

Today, I experienced a bizarre atittude from my beloved Pulsar, and I thought I tell you to see if anybody had come across such a thing.
Basically, SFP seemed to work fine, projects/modules etc loaded fine, and there were no problems in the Device Manager of Windows (no "(!)"). However, Windows Media Player, Cubase, WaveLab and all other programs were saying that there is no Soundcard installed on this PC!!
I did 3 System Restores but no luck! Everything seemed fine, but Pulsar was not working!
Finally, I found out that Pulsar was syncing to the SPDIF and there was no clock. Which is logical...since I have nothing connected to the SPDIF!

I cleaned with alcohol the RCA SPDIF connectors and voila!! Clock came back and everything works again fine!

How bizarre, aint it?

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:11 pm

I always thought you had to change sync-settings in the samplerate settings box ... now you say I should do it with alcohol!!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu May 08, 2003 4:35 pm

do you mean the clock returned after that treatment without connecting anything - that would indeed be a miracle

jammas, Tom

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Thu May 08, 2003 5:08 pm

The clock was reading: -----
And the red light next to SPDIF sync was lit.
After I put alcohol on the connector, the light goes off, and hey hey, 44100 appears on the clock!!
No kidding!

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu May 08, 2003 5:14 pm

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Post by **hubird** » Thu May 08, 2003 6:08 pm

If I myself take alcohol, I always *loose* the clock

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Thu May 08, 2003 9:50 pm

hehe

I am worse than you! I have lost the clock, without having drunk anything. It is 5:45 in the morning. Gotta get some sleep!!
Goodnight!

P.S. Samplaire, I cant see the pics

[ This Message was edited by: rodos1979 on 2003-05-08 22:51 ]

Post by **garyb** » Thu May 08, 2003 11:51 pm

everything makes perfect sense to me but this:why did you think to clean the sp/dif connectors as a solution?(obviously the right one!

)devine inspiration?

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri May 09, 2003 2:55 am

On 2003-05-08 22:50, rodos1979 wrote:
P.S. Samplaire, I cant see the pics

And me, either. If I knew your e-mail address I would send you them directly

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Fri May 09, 2003 2:22 pm

Hello!

@garyb: have you ever heard of the "Holy Spirit"?

@samplaire: I ll private message it to you

rodos1979 · Post by **rodos1979** » Sun May 11, 2003 4:53 am

Problem not gone!

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