PowerSDR 2.8.0 keeps crashing
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 7:20 pm
Hi Darrin... Thanks for all you do for our Flex community, it's much appreciated. I love what you've done with the software but have a unique problem and I'm not sure if it's your end or mine. I've used your KE9NS versions with my Flex 5000A before and never had an issue. A tree took out my antenna a couple years ago and I've just recently got back on the air with my homemade 40/20/10/6m "I hate HOA's" Attic special dipole.
I was tired of the issues with Windows so I switched to Linux but that won't work with my radio so I decided to reformat my Windows M.2 SSD to use only for my Flex so everything started with a fresh install.
I initially had a lot of issues getting the legacy 1394 drivers to run and they're working fine now. Maybe. I hope.
Recently while operating, receiving, I notice the audio cutting in and out and with the start button flashing on and off around 4 times a second. Adds to the excitement of decoding FT-8! It stops after a second or two and acts like nothing happened, but we both know it did. lol.
Every time I stop the radio and take a break, when I come back and start the radio back up I get an Unhandled Exception Error as seen in the attached pic. After clicking continue, I'll get pointer errors and the only way out is to close the program.
Then when I try to restart PowerSDR I get another strange error saying a firmware update is required as seen in the second screen shot. The only solution is to reboot the whole thing and it works after that. For a while. Sometimes an hour.. sometimes a couple. But it always seems to fail when I just called some DXCC that I need...
I copied the details of the exception error but lost them when I did the screenshots. I can capture it again as it's sure to happen once or twice more tonight.
My PC is a homebuilt water cooled behemoth I built to handle all the graphics and processing I would ever need... an Asus Maximus IX Extreme MB running a Intel i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz, (overclocked 9%), 64gb of GSkill Trident DDR3600 memory, two sticks of Samsung 960 PRO 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (dual boot, one for Ubuntu Linux and the other for Win10 Pro) and an ASUS STRIX GeForce 1080TI-OC. As you can see it's a beast and I use a StarTech 1394 Firewire card as well as your recommended Voicemeeter Banana drivers.
Windows is fully updated as are all my drivers. The only other programs running are Norton 360 and GeForce Experience to keep the graphics drivers up to date. The only other software I'm running with PowerSDR is;
HRD 6.7.0.323
WSJT-X
JTAlert 2.16.17
If I try to run the FlexRadio app before a reboot I get the error that the device is not accessible. Is it a 1394 issue? NOt sure why there would be one with new drivers and while the radio is off. I've reinstalled those legacy drivers a dozen times now.
Thoughts?
73 and thanks for your help in advance...
Bob - WE3M
I was tired of the issues with Windows so I switched to Linux but that won't work with my radio so I decided to reformat my Windows M.2 SSD to use only for my Flex so everything started with a fresh install.
I initially had a lot of issues getting the legacy 1394 drivers to run and they're working fine now. Maybe. I hope.
Recently while operating, receiving, I notice the audio cutting in and out and with the start button flashing on and off around 4 times a second. Adds to the excitement of decoding FT-8! It stops after a second or two and acts like nothing happened, but we both know it did. lol.
Every time I stop the radio and take a break, when I come back and start the radio back up I get an Unhandled Exception Error as seen in the attached pic. After clicking continue, I'll get pointer errors and the only way out is to close the program.
- PowerSDR Crash.jpg (1.57 MiB) Viewed 8917 times
- PowerSDR Crash 2.jpg (1.36 MiB) Viewed 8917 times
My PC is a homebuilt water cooled behemoth I built to handle all the graphics and processing I would ever need... an Asus Maximus IX Extreme MB running a Intel i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz, (overclocked 9%), 64gb of GSkill Trident DDR3600 memory, two sticks of Samsung 960 PRO 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (dual boot, one for Ubuntu Linux and the other for Win10 Pro) and an ASUS STRIX GeForce 1080TI-OC. As you can see it's a beast and I use a StarTech 1394 Firewire card as well as your recommended Voicemeeter Banana drivers.
Windows is fully updated as are all my drivers. The only other programs running are Norton 360 and GeForce Experience to keep the graphics drivers up to date. The only other software I'm running with PowerSDR is;
HRD 6.7.0.323
WSJT-X
JTAlert 2.16.17
If I try to run the FlexRadio app before a reboot I get the error that the device is not accessible. Is it a 1394 issue? NOt sure why there would be one with new drivers and while the radio is off. I've reinstalled those legacy drivers a dozen times now.
Thoughts?
73 and thanks for your help in advance...
Bob - WE3M