[Finale] Problem with F2k9 starting up (OS X)

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Hindson (gmail)
I was wondering whether anyone else had encountered a problem wherein Finale 2009 won't start up at all. It gets to the Initializing MIDI stage and then crashes. The Crash Log says Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0xbf70 I've

Re: [Finale] Problem with F2k9 starting up (OS X)

2009-02-01 Thread Christopher Smith
The only time I've had a kernel error is when I had a bad RAM chip (twice). Try the almost-free utility Memtest at http://www.memtestosx.org/joomla/index.php It costs US $1.39 through PayPal, which is next to free, and it spotted my bad RAM chip that was overlooked by the system utility,

Re: [Finale] Problem with F2k9 starting up (OS X)

2009-02-01 Thread Dick Hauser
This is what happened to me with 2008. Never got it to work. Mem test didn't find anything, After exhausting everyones good advice, to no avail, I tried completely reformating the disk and reinstalling all programs from scratch. Still didn't work. I could run it with out the MOTU

[Finale] Problem with F2k9 starting up (OS X) (Matthew Hindson (gmail))

2009-02-01 Thread John Hinchey
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Re: [Finale] Problem with F2k9 starting up (OS X)

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew Hindson
Thanks for this bad news Dick and others. I am not using MOTU hardware or software (learnt that lesson years ago!) but am using an eMagic MT4 interface as well as a direct connection to an edirol SD-20. I will try the Memtest as well. Sorry to hear that reformatting didn't work either since that