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#1894555 - 03/30/24 05:26 PM 1680 AND computer crash
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Hi folks! Had a funny thing happen in the studio today. Everything that was plugged into my uninterrupted power supply crashed... I heard a beep, the 1680 screen when blank and then came up with a confirming IDE thing that happens when I select a hard drive. My computer did the same thing, although I didn't have a program loaded at the time.

1680 seemed a little buggy when I started it up and I had a little trouble until I rebooted it again.

After about a while messing around it seems like it's back to its old self. But it definitely went through a hard shutdown, which suggest to me that my uninterrupted power supply is not really working very well. I'm probably going to replace that.

I'm still looking to see if I'm having issues with a 1680. I had one of the tracks soloed and I couldn't hear anything else and for a while was mildly freaky, but that was me ... All the tracks are backed up too VIRDIS on the computer and into reaper as wav files so it wasn't too freaky.

Anybody suffer a hard shutdown like that with the 1680? Any long-term or other artifacts because of it?
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#1894573 - 03/30/24 06:51 PM Re: 1680 AND computer crash [Re: RD]
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Not for ages, but I also didn't experience weirdness afterwards...

I'm guessing you need to get a replacement battery soon for your UPS, even if it appears to be okay now. Have you ever replaced it since buying it?
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#1894580 - 03/30/24 07:30 PM Re: 1680 AND computer crash [Re: uptildawn]
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I've actually been thinking about that. The unit itself (the UPS) is about 12 years old and I did put a new battery in it about 4 years ago. I'm pretty disappointed that it let both computers crash. After I wrote the above, I looked in my circuit breaker box and the circuit was broke, as well as the little ground fault going to the desk in my studio. So either the UPS has a short or I was overloading it or something but, it should never have let my computers both hiccup and crash.

So I've ordered a new UPS unit. I'll keep monitoring the 1680 to see how it behaves but I think I'm okay..

Thanks for your thoughts :-)
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#1894610 - 03/30/24 10:27 PM Re: 1680 AND computer crash [Re: RD]
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4 years is a long time by ups battery life in my experience.
Does the ups have a short?.... possible I suppose. But with the circuit and ground fault to your desk both being 'broke' as well...
I wonder if that whole circuit line hasn't recently received some sort of jolt and just chose that moment to finally fail.

I'm sure it won't hurt any to put a new ups in there. The four I have spread around the place usually choose the middle of the night to go off chirping, when a battery decides to fail. But I can usually bet on an instant failure like yours to happen in the middle of working and without a hint that something is wrong, rare as that's been for me (thankfully).

Hope your gear - especially the 1680 - isn't hiding some lingering damage.
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#1898724 - 04/28/24 06:14 PM Re: 1680 AND computer crash [Re: uptildawn]
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Ran a remote session on the computer. Nothing jumping out at the technician, and coincidence or not, everything seems to be working fine now.

We may have to replace the computer. I've been sent on a mission to discover if VirDis runs on windows11 and if it will, we will probably upgrade.

My trusty 1680 wasn't harmed by the hard shut down apparently (at least insofar as I can tell...the tracks are all there)

Thankful!
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