HELP! D8B won't boot!

[bondomatic]

Hi everyone,

Long time user here, but I'm stumped on this... Board was working fine, nothing changed, nothing happened... All of a sudden it won't boot.

At first it would boot pretty far and then freeze, now it's just in a boot / reboot cycle.

When it started, the computer would boot all the way to the software. On the board's screen, I would see it detect all cards etc, would display the usual 'One Moment Please', where it froze. Usually (for me), that 'One Moment Please' would only appear for a flash, and then it would start 'Downloading MFX Package'... but it stopped getting there, and just froze on 'One Moment Please'. Board would be frozen, comp as well.

Now, it's just stuck in a boot cycle, and half of the time the monitor does not kick on when the comp fires up... Which is making me think video card could be faulty?

I tried removing all of the FX and I/O cards from the back of the board, no change...
Tried removing and re-seating everything in the comp, no change...

Help? Opinions? Tests? Anything?

Thanks everyone!

[bondomatic]

And it just booted... I celebrated, then shut it down and tried again... Back to not booting.
Now it's stopping on a screen on the comp that lists Mackie OS Loader 3.0 etc, on the right side of the screen there is red text displaying 'Unhandled fixup type 0005'.

Failing video card?

[Old School]

Hi,
It could be a corrupt session file. If it's trying to download MFX package, you have it set to "load last session at startup". If you get it to boot again, change that setting to load the startup file instead, then delete the existing startup file so that the D8B will be forced to create a new one & reboot. If this doesn't work, I would remove the hard drive & hook it up to your computer via usb adapter, then drop & drag your session files to your computer for backup. Return your HD to the D8B & then I would format & reload the operating system. This is all suggestion, so take it with a grain of salt, but corrupt session files have caused me a lot of problems--- all different. Good Luck.

Have a blessed day in Christ,
Mike W.

[Old School]

Almost forgot, make SURE you have 5.1 authorization code if you are running 5.1, if you don't you will only be able to run in demo mode & Mackie can no longer provide you with a code that works.

Have a blessed day in Christ,\
Mike W.

[the boss]

Check bios settings

[Crash]

Sometimes when RAM goes wonky, it can cause odd behavior with the d8b. Maybe worth investigating.

[bondomatic]

Thanks everyone!

Turned out to be bad RAM... Phew!

[Old School]

Thanks for letting us know how things turned out & thanks to Crash for a new entry in my list of things to check when the D8B goes south.

Have a blessed day in Christ,
Mike W.

[salvaes]

The steps I follow, are as follows
since it is possible to have data from corrupted session, but before we get to that point I would extract and all cards from the table, the ram would clean the contacts with isopropyl alcohol, once made would put the ram and video card only and perform a test to see if everything is in order.