WIN8 stops

[PeterSt]

But Anthony, I thought you already tried Coen's solution ? Ok, maybe not all of them - I didn't even read about this explicitly (kill hybernation).

But notice this has been described by me as any sorts of possible culprits (but not in this topic maybe) because what W8 applies there is a kind of dirty/dangerous trick. So, what actually happens is that at shut down the memory will be in the hyberfil.sys and at the next boot that is just read into memory so many things don't need to be re-initialised. And I guess that is a too dangerous thing for some parts of the OS, and it could even include SQ itself.

Notice that in the end Coen came up with this indirectly because that second boot needed (from cold). Ok, that would testify some other way around, but alas.

So not that I could reason this out in advance, but it really makes sense to me, once it has been proven that this cures the culprit.
That I missed it or forgot is something else.

Regards,
Peter

[PeterSt]

In case people need it :

Look for a hyberfil.sys file in the root of our OS disk. It's a plain copy of your memory, just in case the PC falls asleep - never mind you told it to never do that. That too is just maintained (and consumes your precious SSD space ...). Btw, the most unambiguous way to shut it off is to go to the command prompt (cmd in Run) and type this :

powercfg.exe -h off

Don't forget to press Enter, and next reboot.
Notice though that now all your hybernate and sleep whatever options will have disappeared from the menu's. To get them back, change the "off" into "on" for the mentioned command.

Btw, I can imagine this needs a command prompt "Run as administrator".

Peter

[acg]

But Anthony, I thought you already tried Coen's solution ? Ok, maybe not all of them - I didn't even read about this explicitly (kill hybernation).

But notice this has been described by me as any sorts of possible culprits (but not in this topic maybe) because what W8 applies there is a kind of dirty/dangerous trick. So, what actually happens is that at shut down the memory will be in the hyberfil.sys and at the next boot that is just read into memory so many things don't need to be re-initialised. And I guess that is a too dangerous thing for some parts of the OS, and it could even include SQ itself.

Notice that in the end Coen came up with this indirectly because that second boot needed (from cold). Ok, that would testify some other way around, but alas.

So not that I could reason this out in advance, but it really makes sense to me, once it has been proven that this cures the culprit.
That I missed it or forgot is something else.

Regards,
Peter

Hi Peter,

When I came back to w8 a couple of weeks ago hibernation was already disabled from when I was using w8 before I went to w7, but I got the stops with 1.186(d) installed.

As part of my trying to get things to work I re-enabled hibernation and tried to get music playing stop-free before I re-disabled hibernation, but in over a week of re-starting I could not get stop-free playback.  Of course I did get impatient a few times and disabled hibernation from a a situation of play stopping but like Coen said, it did not work so I re-enabled hibernation in the hope of getting to the situation of stop-free playback so I could then disable hibernation.  And what do you know, for whatever reason today I did get stop-free playback without changing a thing so I disabled hibernation again and it seems to have stuck through some restarts so hopefully it all works tomorrow.

Fingers crossed.

Regards,

Anthony

[PeterSt]

Well Anthony, THEN I'd have to agree with you that you should be lost.
Like me.

haha

[acg]

In case people need it :

Look for a hyberfil.sys file in the root of our OS disk. It's a plain copy of your memory, just in case the PC falls asleep - never mind you told it to never do that. That too is just maintained (and consumes your precious SSD space ...). Btw, the most unambiguous way to shut it off is to go to the command prompt (cmd in Run) and type this :

powercfg.exe -h off

Don't forget to press Enter, and next reboot.
Notice though that now all your hybernate and sleep whatever options will have disappeared from the menu's. To get them back, change the "off" into "on" for the mentioned command.

Btw, I can imagine this needs a command prompt "Run as administrator".

Peter

I could not get that way to work.  In the end I went Control Panel>Power Options>Choose What the Power Buttons Do and then cleared hibernate from everywhere on that screen.

[Gerard]

In case people need it :

Look for a hyberfil.sys file in the root of our OS disk. It's a plain copy of your memory, just in case the PC falls asleep - never mind you told it to never do that. That too is just maintained (and consumes your precious SSD space ...). Btw, the most unambiguous way to shut it off is to go to the command prompt (cmd in Run) and type this :

powercfg.exe -h off

Don't forget to press Enter, and next reboot.
Notice though that now all your hybernate and sleep whatever options will have disappeared from the menu's. To get them back, change the "off" into "on" for the mentioned command.

Btw, I can imagine this needs a command prompt "Run as administrator".

Peter

In my w8 periode
with this setting (powercfg.exe -h off)
the stops where gone but lowering the CPU in bios make the stops come back again. With CPU at 32 in bios no stops. Just could not use the low CPU setting Peter use.

But with cpu at 32 and playing mp3 the stops apear again. As said WAV/Flac no problem at 32

 

[acg]

My cpu is at 12 but my cpu is different to yours Gerard.  I don't have any MP3 to test for you right now to see if they work for me now that I think my problem is fixed.

Actually, I will see if I can drag some MP3 from my wifes iPod and report back to you Gerard.

Anthony

[Michel]

Sorry for opening an old post .

I also suffer from stops with w8. therefore I followed Coens his advice. Unfortunately, that has not helped. I disabled hiberfil.sys. But every time @ 10;15 min the music stops. Move the mouse helps to get the music back..

I think it really has to do with the tweaks.
What I do now is start with no tweaks( cpu is @ normal speed). Start music and in the first minute I change the setting to user tweaks(cpu is @ 0.635 i7 2600)

Not very convenient, but it works.
What also works is what Peter said alt -d in the first minute. But am I unable to play music in unattend mode.Because if I play in unattended mode, alt-d does not work for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?


Someone already has good solution to this problem?
Mayby W8.1 or back to W7  ( W 8.1 has losing activation problems,and SQ is worse!)

Kind Regards,
Michel

[PeterSt]

Hi Michel,

Why does Alt-d (or Alt-u) not work ? What happens ?

Regards,
Peter

[Michel]

Hi Peter

I must admit that I've tried it one time in unattend mode (I do not use it very often). It looks like the alt d or u dont work in unattend mode.

I will test it.

What alt d do anyway?
Or is that difficult to explain?

Regards,
Michel

[PeterSt]

Michel,

Alt-d is Volume Down.
Alt-u is Volume Up.

Peter

[Michel]

Hi Peter

I am testing atm. But...

I also have a "other" problem. No big deal.
It is useful to open a new post for it?

Regards,
Michel

[PeterSt]

Michel, every problem can/should be reported and most preferably in its own topic. So yes please !

Peter

[Michel]

Peter,

Yesterday and today i have done some tests, but what I have done I dont know. But no more stops.

The tests were carried out after a cold boot. In attend modes and unattend modes. I did not used the alt d or u buttons.

O ja. 1 thing i changed. And thats the volume from 0 db to -9 db in XXhighend.

Ill hope it stays this way

Kind Regards,
Michel

[PeterSt]