Have you tried running Core by itself (not letting Armory manage it for you) and getting it to sync to the latest block before starting Armory?
You may want to move this thread to the Armory sub-forum so it is seen by the proper people. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=97.0
You may want to move this thread to the Armory sub-forum so it is seen by the proper people. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=97.0
hi there. quick update:
on the 17, when I put my first message up about his issue I had already tried running armory when it abruptly poped to the "armory is offline" screen at week 42. I wasn't sure what had happened so initiated this thread. I uninstalled and reinstalled armory. tried running several times again without success consistently ending at week 42. read your comment. uninstalled everything, again downloaded bitcoin wallet and initiated core sync. got to week 42, then 41. went to bed. woke up this morning and the program had closed itself. opened it to find it was stuck at week 40. bitcoin wallet asked if I would like to reindex. I said yes. so now i'm year 2 and some weeks - again. of course, i'm going to see how far it gets this time, too.
I appreciate all your help. I do have my wallets backed up on paper as well as offline computer backup. again, thank you.
If Core is crashing (and/or the block data is being corrupted), you may have some hardware instability in your system. I would test your CPU and RAM and see if they pass well known stability tests (I prefer Intel Burn Test for a quick CPU check and memtest86+ overnight without errors for RAM). Failing HDDs also tend to cause problems with Core. I long ago switched from HDD to SSD for any machine running Core and I'm quite happy with the results.
Once Core is running well and synced properly, it's a lot easier to get Armory running smoothly as well.
