Electrical? question

Dan Sherman wrote on 4/17/2006, 10:31 AM
Am still trying to isolate problems with my editing computer.
Have spent several hundred dollars on consultation and hardware and am frankly getting a bit desperate.
Machine has a hard time keeping up.
NTSC screen goes blue, Preview screen AND TL go white from time to time.
This is a long shot, but I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the electrical circuit I am on in my office?
Is that too crazy a question to ask?
I'm no electrician. No computer guy either,---obviously!

M-Audio Delta 44 auido card
Running Windows XP Pro
Asus mother board p4c800/p4p800 intel 875/865 Chipset
Pentium(R) CPU 3.00 GHz, 3.01 GHz, 1.00 GM of Ram
two 250 GB RAIDED drives, 200 GB HD (operations) 5 swappable drives (not hot) all drives Western Digital one 160 TO 200.
LG burner

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JJKizak wrote on 4/17/2006, 10:41 AM
Preview screen and timeline going white means Vegas is running out of memory. It takes an awfull lot of bad to get a blue screen in XP Pro.
Overheated CPU, Bad power supply, bad memory, old drivers, hard drive going bad. Your electrical power has to be doing some huge swings to be giving you problems and you would be seeing the room lights dim and blink, etc. Is anyone else on the computer circuit? Mixing those CPU's might be the problem.
JJK
craftech wrote on 4/17/2006, 2:10 PM
Look in your win.ini file and tell us what your Direct Video Access is set to (DVA).

Is your computer display monitor a CRT or an LCD?

John

By the way. If you don't have that entry in your win.ini file you can add it like this:

[drawdib]

dva=0


That will turn off Direct Video Access. See if that works.
Dan Sherman wrote on 4/18/2006, 6:20 AM
Have replaced paste on heat sink.
Case is aluminum Lian Li with many fans.
Don't think heat is an issue.
Hard drives are new. Goodness know I've spent enough on them.
How do I check for bad memory?, Bad power supply? Old drivers?
Dan Sherman wrote on 4/18/2006, 6:21 AM
I have no idea what a win.ini file is or how to access it.
Sorry.
craftech wrote on 4/18/2006, 7:26 AM
have no idea what a win.ini file is or how to access it.
Sorry.
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At the RUN command type:

sysedit


Check the win.ini file as I mentioned above and if you make any changes such as the one I suggested click on SAVE under FILE. If you have to add the entry I suggested above because you don't have it you can probably cut and paste it from what I typed above.
Then reboot and see if it happens again.

John
Dan Sherman wrote on 4/18/2006, 7:36 AM
This is what's in my win.ini file.
Nothing here about DVA that I can see.
I miss something?

for 16-bit app support
[fonts]
[extensions]
[mci extensions]
[files]
[Mail]
MAPI=1
CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll
CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll
CMC=1
MAPIX=1
MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1
OLEMessaging=1
[MCI Extensions.BAK]
aif=MPEGVideo
aifc=MPEGVideo
aiff=MPEGVideo
asf=MPEGVideo2
asx=MPEGVideo2
au=MPEGVideo
m1v=MPEGVideo
m3u=MPEGVideo2
mp2=MPEGVideo
mp2v=MPEGVideo
mp3=MPEGVideo2
mpa=MPEGVideo
mpe=MPEGVideo
mpeg=MPEGVideo
mpg=MPEGVideo
mpv2=MPEGVideo
snd=MPEGVideo
wax=MPEGVideo2
wm=MPEGVideo2
wma=MPEGVideo2
wmv=MPEGVideo2
wmx=MPEGVideo2
wvx=MPEGVideo2
wpl=MPEGVideo
Dan Sherman wrote on 4/18/2006, 7:38 AM
I have two 19 " CRTs LG Flatrons
craftech wrote on 4/18/2006, 9:20 AM
Sherman,
Cut and paste the following into an empty area in the win.ini file:

[drawdib]
dva=0


Then click on File and then Save and then reboot. See if that fixes the problem.

John