Help - Vegas 6b Startup Hangs!

randygo wrote on 5/29/2005, 2:07 AM

Against my better judgement I decided to upgrade from Vegas 5 to Vegas 6.

After a number of reboots and downloads to upgrade the .NET services and DirectX 9c, I finally installed Vegas 6b and registered my new serial number.

This is one of the most painful upgrades I have done in some time, but it gets worse.

Now that I have Vegas installed and registered and I attempt to start Vegas, it indicates it is scanning my audio plugins, which completes okay, indicates it is starting the database service, pauses for a while and then pops up "Found New Hardware Wizard".

WTF? I did not install any new hardware. Nor does it indicate what type of device driver it is looking for. I tried scanning the Windows 2000 system disk - nothing found.

I cancel the wizard and the Vegas 6 splash screen is permanently locked on my desktop. I can't even kill the Vegas process with Task Manager!

Nothing short of a reboot can remove the Vegas 6 splash screen.

Arrgh.....

I am extremely frustrated. I don''t expect I will be able to reach Sony support until after the long weekend.

I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 on an ECS K7S5A motherboard with 512MB RAM.

If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Randy

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JJKizak wrote on 6/3/2005, 6:21 AM

In your options menu in the external control & automation devices what do you have selected?

JJK

randygo wrote on 6/3/2005, 10:34 AM

I haven't changed any options there, but I will check those settings when I am home this evening.

ForumAdmin wrote on 6/3/2005, 12:45 PM

Hi Randy,

In Vegas 6 the AVCDevices.dll controls HDV capture. If you don't use an HDV device, you should be fine with that .dll ignored.

seastl wrote on 2/27/2006, 8:49 PM

Thank God I found this thread. I installed Movie Studio 6.0a today and exactly the same issue. Sony apparently has not addressed this issue yet. Thanks for sharing your solution, Randy!