BYN beta e crashing Win 7

[BigDob17.5]

At least I "Think" it's BYN that's the culprit.

 

I'm completely new to computerized astronomy and it's taken me several dry runs, indoors, to feel like I was confident enough to to some actual test runs outside. I'm using an Atlas, EQMod, Cartes de Ciel, PHD, and BYN through a D7100. Laptop is a Dell w/an Intel i5, 4MB RAM, 260 GB HD.

 

Everything works great to start with. BYN is by far the easiest program of the bunch to just intuitively jump into, and now I know why all the Canon shooters rave about it. I love being able to see everything live on the bigger laptop monitor and use the focus module, but it's during the capture sequence that I run into problems.

 

I can do a couple of quick focus/frame reviews, but as soon as I try to start a sequence, BYN hangs, and the only way I can shut it down is using the task manager, but even then, there's still something running in the background that causes Win7 to bluescreen, something I've never seen before.

 

I'm suspecting it's something in the save to menu. I've been using save to PC and Camera or Save to Camera since I'd prefer to use my laptop for automation of the mount/camera only. I use my desktop for all image processing so I use my cardreader to import my cameras data straight from the SD card. I don't want to have to take a secondary step of transferring all of the data on the laptop, to an SD card and then transfer that to my desktop.

 

What I've noticed over the past 3 nights, the first 3 times I've used BYN, is that after starting a sequence using "Save to PC and Camera", I'll get 1-2 captures, and then the program hangs. I have to shut it down in task manager, and then I've just been using my remote intervelometer to capture the sequence I'd planned. But every time, usually 30-40 min later, Win7 blue screens. Checking my cameras card, nothing was ever written from BYN since the start of my evening.

 

I know I've read of issues regarding my QHY5-II guide cameras drivers crashing PHD in certain configurations, but my problems seem to start in BYN, and then into Win 7.

[admin]

Send me the log files.  The "save to" in BYN is stale, it does not do anything for now and images are always sent to PC so it can not be the cause.

 

I suspect it is a camera setting (dial ?) or the BULB cable to properly configured.

 

Would you have mirror lock enabled, that could do it.  It should be disabled in BYN because it is not yet implemented.

 

Send the log files to support@binaryrivers.com

 

Regards,

[BigDob17.5]

So, after three attempts and three hangs/crashes, everything worked flawlessly last night !

 

Over 4 hrs and 65 exposures, no problems at all.

[admin]

So, after three attempts and three hangs/crashes, everything worked flawlessly last night ! Over 4 hrs and 65 exposures, no problems at all.

 

3 attempts last night... then all when fine?  Or... 3 attempts on previous nights?

 

 

 

[BigDob17.5]

So, after three attempts and three hangs/crashes, everything worked flawlessly last night ! Over 4 hrs and 65 exposures, no problems at all.

3 attempts last night... then all when fine?  Or... 3 attempts on previous nights?

 

Three attempts on 3 previous nights.

I'm not sure what all settings I changed in BYN in the whole process, since I was also changing things in PHD2 as well, but it's been working perfectly for 4 nights now, without a hiccup.

[admin]

Was you anti-virus running a scan by any change?

 

Was you HD defrag scheduled and ran at that time?

 

What about virtual memory?  If you are close it could be that Windows was constantly swaping stuff in/out the page file.

 

Regards,

[BigDob17.5]

Was you anti-virus running a scan by any change?

Was you HD defrag scheduled and ran at that time?

What about virtual memory?  If you are close it could be that Windows was constantly swaping stuff in/out the page file.

Regards,

 

No to all of the above.