Long wait: "initializing device explorer"

dxdy wrote on 11/27/2009, 4:49 PM
I have been running 32 bit Vegas Pro 9.0c with no problems, but now my XP SP3 Q6600 box seems to be having a problem. When I start Vegas, the splash screen seems to hang up on the "initializing device explorer" phase - it takes 15 or 20 seconds to get past it.

This started after I got my first red screen ever, when I tried to mix some Upshifted mts files with some large jpgs. I expect this is a coincidence.

Could the hesitation be retries on a balky bit of hardware (3 hard disks, 1 for OS, 1 for source material, one for render output). I make regular backups to a fourth hard drive (ESATA). Mobo is ASUS.

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gpsmikey wrote on 11/27/2009, 5:12 PM
I wonder if we are seeing the same thing - mine hangs at "creating file I/O manager" for a good 30 seconds before it goes ahead and comes on up (9.0b on XP Pro SP2). No error messages and it seems to come up fine after that, but it sure seems to sit there for a while !

mikey