Looks like every one is defeated this time

pjam wrote on 8/14/2003, 3:10 AM
No replies at all too my previous message, so I am posting again.
Well! I am trying one thing at a time but still we crash, anybody recognise the symptons?
I watched through a project today, after 39 mins the picture on the external monitor reverts back to the Canon XM1(GL1) blue screen, the time line continues to run but as soon as you click the Stop,Pause, buttons or anything else thats it! Frozen!
Then after re-boot it repeats the same more frequently. Drives me nuts! This only happens with Vegas. Any ideas greatly appreciated, or a large sledgehammer!
Philip

Comments

Begbie wrote on 8/14/2003, 8:33 AM
What OS? Check the event log in XP...any error events?
pjam wrote on 8/14/2003, 11:40 AM
No its WinME
baysidebas wrote on 8/14/2003, 11:48 AM
I think you provided your own answer. Try using a serious OS.
johnmeyer wrote on 8/14/2003, 1:06 PM
While XP and 2000 are better than ME or 98SE, I've used them all and I think Vegas can be made to work fine with all of them.

Do a search under my user name and search for MSCONFIG. I am a big believer in getting rid of background operations. My most stable system is still my trusty old 450MHz Windows 98SE machine. It runs Vegas (slow as molasses on rendering) and many other video apps, and never drops a frame or crashes. The secret is that I've spent the past four years stripping every unessential application and process from the startup folders, INI files, and regsitry. MSCONFIG is the utility that lets you do this. I would also recommend doing a SCANDISK on all your drives just to make sure there isn't some small corruption (lost clusters, etc.).
Flack wrote on 8/14/2003, 4:26 PM
ME is no good for what you are using it for. unlike Win 2000 and XP they flush the system out every so often. I bet this is your problem because of low system resources.


I used ME when I first started out and it crashed after long editing sessions, I upgraded to XP and Vagas has never had one hickup since then..

You need to get a serious OS for a serious programe like Vagas...
I used MSP Pro at first and boy could that crash... but now to me Vagas is the best...



MJ..

riredale wrote on 8/14/2003, 4:38 PM
Since I always seem to take the contrarian side of things, I will do so again and state that there is nothing inherently "wrong" with using ME to run Vegas. I used 98SE (a close cousin) to produce several large Vegas projects over the past few years, and all I had to do to keep the OS happy was to reboot every morning.

Obviously there is something that is causing your problem, but putting the blame on the OS before checking everything out is not fair. On the other hand, if you're planning to make a move to a new OS, XP would be an excellent choice.
Begbie wrote on 8/14/2003, 5:16 PM
I kjinda of agree - why would you be using ME - its certainly not stable enough to be used ina development environment.

Still ME has an event log doesnt it?
pjam wrote on 8/14/2003, 6:51 PM
Is it going to be safe to upgrade to XP in the middle of a project?
pjam wrote on 8/14/2003, 6:55 PM
By the way the process of elimination seems to be down to the graphics card chip overheating?(NVidia MXMX400) that coupled with the OS could be the root?
Souza wrote on 8/14/2003, 8:52 PM
I've had no problems editing and rendering 20min projects with WinME. But it does seem to be problematic on many machines and I don't know why not on mine. I have a Dell xps866mhz
384ram
20G and 70G 7200rpm hard drives
Vegas4
Acid4
Sonar2.2
FLStudio4
CoolEdit2000
Audiophile2496 - (use ASIO all around)
NVidia Gforce 2 64MB
PaintShopPro8
etc... no serious probs :)
sdmoore wrote on 8/15/2003, 7:34 AM
Are you overclocking your motherboard and/or graphics card at all? If you are I'd advise setting them back to their defaults

Scott
David_AJ wrote on 8/15/2003, 2:41 PM
IMHO, it's never a good idea to *upgrade* an OS. You usually bring along some of the problems that your previous OS had. If you have some way to back up your data and config files, it is ususally best to wipe the disk completely and install the new OS from scratch. I know it is a hassle to reinstall all of your apps, but things will run much better, cleaner that way.

BTW, don't run XP with anything less than 256MB of memory.

Good luck,
David
Former user wrote on 8/15/2003, 3:28 PM
May be a heat problem in your computer overall.

If you leave the computer off long enough to cool down, does it repeat a similar pattern?

Before I updated my power supply, my computer would run good until it need to compress video (like an mpeg or something) then it would run a while and freeze. After upgrading the power supply, it runs fine.

I am running an AMD Athlon XP processor.

and as a note: I am using ME. It works fine for Vegas and many other applications including audio recording, other video apps and capture and output. It might be a little harder to get it stable at first, but after a little tweaking, it runs very well. You just need to make sure all of the drivers were created for ME. Most people tried to use 98 drivers and that caused a lot of problems. I don't adhere to the Serious OS theory. :)

Dave T2