Blue-Screen crash on capture

KMR Productions wrote on 12/24/2009, 6:59 AM

I have used Vegas and it's capture program for years. Just within the past 2 weeks, as soon as the video begins playing through the firewire, the program crashes to the blue-screen telling me:
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
If this is the first time....
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0X0000000A (0X0000000000000098, 0X000000000000000C, 0X0000000000000001, 0XFFFFF80001CEAECD)

...then crash dump occures. (I've tried both my DCR-TRV30, and HVR-V1U hi-def)

It connects fine, it recognizes the connection fine, it starts the camera-- but as soon as it gets through the leader and begins the video signal, it shuts down. I'm at a loss. I've scoured Sony and VASST for similar posts.

Other than that, Vegas works great, I can edit previous projects all day long with no problems.

I'm running Vegas 9c on a X64 Core 2 quad-core 2.66, 4 GB RAM
Everything is updated: windows, other programs, plugins, drivers, etc. My hard drives are huge (smallest 500GB) with over 50% free.
It seems to be somthing with the capture utility Sony uses, I downloaded HDVSplit and am able to capture footage -- but I'd rather stay inside Sony.

I tried updating the capture drivers, but they say they're uptodate. The only suggestion I've recieved that I haven't tried is "upgrade to W7"

I'd sure appreciate any ideas for my next step.
Thanks!

Kevin

Comments

richard-amirault wrote on 12/24/2009, 7:31 AM

I'm no expert ... but it appears (from the first line of the error msg) that it is an IRQ conflict. Have you installed any other program recently? If so, it may have taken the IRQ that was assigned to the firewire port.

johnmeyer wrote on 12/24/2009, 8:06 AM

I have two comments, one of which may be helpful, and the other of which is simply offered as a consoling remark.

The possibly helpful comment is that I have had direct- to-reboot crashes when capturing HDV tape that also contains DV material. At the transition between HDV to DV (or maybe it was the other way around), Vegas would crash to blue screen and re-boot. This is 100% repeatable on my system. The solution is to manually stop the capture just before it gets to that transition. I'm not sure if this is a Vegas issue, or whether it happens somewhere in the Windows chain of drivers before it gets to Vegas.

The consoling remark is that in the past three weeks I have occasionally been having the same IRQ blue screen message happen on my core-i7 computer. I'm not sure if a driver has changed or not. I have a series of image backups going back in time, and if it starts happening some more, I'll go back to an earlier point in time. I have all updates turned off, and the only new program I've installed in the past month is Firefox, which I doubt is causing the problem. Also, I've tested memory extensively using memtest32, and not found a problem there (some sites suggested that this might cause the blue screen IRQ message).