Moved My Soundcard And System Went Crazy? Options

[thegrapeguy]

I moved my ESI Julia PCI card to slot 4 in the Mac G5 which is the 133 MHZ slot. Previously it was in slot 3 which is the 100 MHZ slot. When I went to a Logic file and hit the play button (on a Mackie Control Universal) the display went crazy. New tracks created by themselves, the metronome started clicking erratically. I then called up a new Logic file and when I enabled a track to record I hit a note on my Korg Triton which is midied through a Motu Midi interface the track screens in Logic went CRAZY. The various windows in Logic started flashing rapidly and I couldn't even close the file. I went to "File Close" and that pull down menu was flashing in and out. The only thing I could do was hit "Control W" until all the windows went away and then quit the file.

Any ideas? Does the audio/midi cinfiguration have to be adjusted since I moved the PCI card to a different slot? And if so how do I do that? This is weird. Thanks in advance.

[thegrapeguy]

Turned out to be a corruption in some Logic preferences. I believe this was because of a bad chip of RAM I had. It took weeks to figure out why I was having glitches and system wide freezeups. One day the Apple Hardware tests came up perfect and then another day the "quick test" showed a RAM error.

I had to delete a file called "logic" and a loose file named "apple.logic.plist" (something like that). As a result of that I lost my templates and settings. Then I had to reset the startup assistant in Logic. I think a handy shortcut, although I am a newbie to Logic, is to formulate a song (file) and name it "Marks template number one", then save it as a template but don't erase the file. Then if you lose your templates like I did, because of the corrupted preferences, the song file still is in your hard drive and you'll just have to save it as the template again.