Blue Screen Blues

Dan Sherman wrote on 3/22/2006, 2:11 PM
I know this is a rare occurance on this page, but Vegas is crashing here with great regularity.
Have paid a video editing consultant who spent three hours going over my system and making suggestions. All of them I have heard and tried before.
I see no improvement.
Now Vegas is running more slowly than ever.
Just froze in the midst of a two camera edit.
Has frozen while doing texts apps,---velocity changes etc.
Have reinstalled Vegas, trimmed back startup apps fiddled with everything I can think of.
I am losing precious editing time and the work piles up.
Virus scan is negative.
Drives are defragged. Three on board and five swappable.
Stymied here and all ears for suggestions.


Comments

Veggie_Dave wrote on 3/22/2006, 2:53 PM
Do you have a motherboard monitor installed?

You're looking for an over-heating CPU.

It may not be the problem, but it's a good place to start.
JJKizak wrote on 3/22/2006, 4:51 PM
Blue screens are cuased by something real bad in your machine--harddrive going bad, apllication/firmware battles, etc. You have to disconnect things one at a time to isolate the approximate area of trouble. Example: my Maxtor 300 gig IDE harddrive on the secondary/slave was blue screening with my Plextor 716a firmware on the secondary/primary. Removed drive and all was well. You also might have an IRQ conflict. Also get rid of anything that says "Norton" and if you ever had it in your machine un-installing does not remove all the files---you have to re-install your entire machine. Also bad memory and bad motherboard. On & on.
JJK
GlennChan wrote on 3/22/2006, 5:22 PM
I would try the following to check for hardware problems:

A- Download prime95 and run the torture test.
B- Install a monitoring program. The best is the program that comes with your motherboard. If that doesn't exist, try Motherboard Monitor or Speedfan.
This will show if you if voltages or temperatures are erroneous.

If your computer fails prime95, then it's likely a hardware problem. The monitoring program will help you pinpoint it. If necessary, run memtest86 to test memory.