Memory
May 5th 2008 08:59
If this was my other blog, I'd be talking about memory in relation to the song from the musical, Cats. But it's a web-focused blog, so I'd better talk about memory in relation to computers and such.
I've just had our (older) computer upgraded in terms of increasing the size of my hard drive. Yes, I know that's not memory, but it's like having lots more room to manoeuvre in, and it sure helps.
The poor old computer has been refusing to shut down a good deal of late, and then, occasionally it would refuse to open up. That's always scary. I haven't had the 'fatal error' message too often, but you always feel it's just round the corner when things aren't working quite according to Hoyle.
Anyway, with the data all transferred to the new hard drive, and all the programmes reinstalled, things should have been working hunky-dory. They were until I tried to install Kontakt Gold. This is a programme that relates to Sibelius, the music programme. It gives you all these wonderful sounds (or at least as many as your computer can handle at any point). Unfortunately, even loading the programme in the correct way has given me nothing. All I can get at the moment is the El Cheapo version off the sound card, and that don't sound like nuthin' good at all.
There's a nasty little message keeps coming up when I start up Sibelius: something about failing IoFn. I can't find any reference to this on the Web, apart from a few techies discussing in a language I can barely understand. Sibelius' help desk told me the other day that "This will be from your playback device and means that Sibelius couldn't initialise the Input Output functionality on the sound card. Go to their manufacturer website for the device to download and reinstall the sound card drivers."
The manufacturer website? That means I have to figure out who provided the sound cards. They may not exist any more! After all, the computer is at least four or five years old. Possibly more. Positively ancient in computer terms...
I've just had our (older) computer upgraded in terms of increasing the size of my hard drive. Yes, I know that's not memory, but it's like having lots more room to manoeuvre in, and it sure helps.
The poor old computer has been refusing to shut down a good deal of late, and then, occasionally it would refuse to open up. That's always scary. I haven't had the 'fatal error' message too often, but you always feel it's just round the corner when things aren't working quite according to Hoyle.
Anyway, with the data all transferred to the new hard drive, and all the programmes reinstalled, things should have been working hunky-dory. They were until I tried to install Kontakt Gold. This is a programme that relates to Sibelius, the music programme. It gives you all these wonderful sounds (or at least as many as your computer can handle at any point). Unfortunately, even loading the programme in the correct way has given me nothing. All I can get at the moment is the El Cheapo version off the sound card, and that don't sound like nuthin' good at all.
There's a nasty little message keeps coming up when I start up Sibelius: something about failing IoFn. I can't find any reference to this on the Web, apart from a few techies discussing in a language I can barely understand. Sibelius' help desk told me the other day that "This will be from your playback device and means that Sibelius couldn't initialise the Input Output functionality on the sound card. Go to their manufacturer website for the device to download and reinstall the sound card drivers."
The manufacturer website? That means I have to figure out who provided the sound cards. They may not exist any more! After all, the computer is at least four or five years old. Possibly more. Positively ancient in computer terms...
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