Hi

For some reason this morning one of our Avids did not want to start up. It goes through the usual initializing stuff, gets all the way to the workspace but instead of opening a project dialogue box to proceed, it just disappears. No error message, no error log. Yesterday it was fine, this morning it doesnt work....

Coincidentally, the upgrade kit for MC3.5 turned up today as well, so we thought we would do a fresh install of that on the system, but that suffers the same problem so we rolled back to AXP5.7.2 until we get to the bottom of this.

It is an unqualified system, but running all the qualified hardware and drivers (see specs).

The workstation is not on the internet, and no windows updates have been installed recently.

I have trawled the forums but can only find a similar issue with the audio/realtek thing, but this wouldnt seem to be relevant.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Cheers

Adam

System Specs:

Supermicro X6DA8 Workstation

2 x 3.2GHZ Xeon (shown as 4 virtual processors)

XP Pro SP2

4GB ram

250GB boot drive

2 x 250GB int Media Drives

Rocketraid 2220 Raid card

Raid5 ProAvio 4TB Editbox via Multilane

Quadro FX1700 (drivers as per Avid)

Audigy 2 soundcard.

QT 7.1

AXP 5.7.2