Rendering is Killing my PC

DivotDan

DivotDan

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Ok, I'm a long time reader but first time poster.

Here is the deal. I'm rendering a wedding I shot, but everytime it gets close to the end (like, last 30 secs).....my entire PC shuts down and restarts. This started to cause OS issues so I cleared off my main harddrive and reloaded XP. Figured this may fix any lingering OS issues. Well I tried it again tonight, and it is doing the same thing. Still rebooting. Not sure where it go from here. Let me give ya some specs.

I have a 2.4G P4
533FBS
768 PC2100 DDR Ram
1 - 40G HD
1 - 250G Firewire HD (Brand New)
WinXP
Vegas5

All my raw footage and timeline are saved on the external drive. I'm rendering to the Internal Drive. I'm using the template set for mpeg2 24p widesceen streaming so I can create my dvd in DVDA-2. The only changes to the template are the video quality is set to the Best setting and I added streaming audio as well.

I have noticed that everytime it dies, I check the Mpeg file it was creating and notice its always 3.07G. Don't know if that has anything to do with it or not.

Any ideas?
 
Re: Rendering is Killing my PC

Do you have any stills in the project, a photo montage in the beginning ? There have been some problems with jpeg's, tiffs and some other types of images. I just use PSD's my self without any issues with the stills. This is the first time I have heard of something crashing Vegas and than the PC. Almost sound like a piece of bad memory and not Vegas. That will normally cause the PC reboot thing.
 
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I have 2 photo montages. I rendered the first one early in the project without a problem. I keep thinking if it was a memory issue that it wouldn't happen at the same place everytime. I've tried rendering this about 8-9 times and it dies at the same place every time. Its right in the middle of the credit roll. I've done virus scans and everything. Keeps creaping up.
 
Re: Rendering is Killing my PC

Download Memtest86+ (link) and test your memory. I had a very similar problem at the beginning of this year. After isolated basically every component, and finding no fault in anything else, I used this program to test the memory. Right on startup, I was getting errors abound :(

Replacing the faulty RAM fixed the problem for me.

Also, while unlikely, if you think it may be what your are rendering that is causing the problem, perhaps you could try rendering just the section in question (including a little bit before and after to be safe). If it renders well, it most likely has nothing to do with the media, but more of a system hardware issue.
 
Re: Rendering is Killing my PC

I thought the same thing about the clip. I prerendered it and it came out just fine. I'll try the memery check and see what happens. Thanks for all the help. I'll keep you posted.
 
Re: Rendering is Killing my PC

Hey Divot Dan,
Keep me posted on what ya find out. Or call me over the weekend. Talk to ya later.
JT
 
Re: Rendering is Killing my PC

Here's an update. I didn't have any luck getting the ISO burnt to CD, so I figured I'd go buy a floppy drive. I picked one up from MicroCenter, but something in my BOIS setting wouldn't recognize it so I'm taking it back today. I figured I'd test the memory via trial and error. I pulled all 3 - 256 sticks out and made a discovery. When I bought my PC, I bought it as a barebones kit. It came with one stick of memory so I added my 2 sticks. Come to find out the stick that came with the computer was 333 speed and my 2 sticks were 266. PROBLEM!!! Or so it seams.

I stuck one of my 266 sticks in and rendered everything just fine last night. I'm going to put the other in and render it again this morning while I'm at chruch. I'll let ya know this afternoon if it works.

Thanks for the advice Jive

jrt, I'm in business!
 
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