My Vegas wont run :(

Hurtman wrote on 8/1/2006, 10:00 PM
I've been using Vegas for about a two years now and never had a problem like this. When I start Vegas, it freezes at the splash start up screen and fails to load. I first thought I might have a virus so I scanned through my drives but no virus. Next I checked my task manager window and noticed that Vegas was using 100 percent of my cpu. That seems kind of high. Next i tried repairing Vegas as I thought I might have a corrupted file even though I was using it two hours before this all started. Still no luck. It just hangs there consuming all my resources. Anyone have any ideas what might cause this. Does this sound like I need to reinstall? Im kinda at a loss. I never have had any problems with Vegas in all the time ive had it running until today.

Amd 2.4 Ghz
1 gig ram
Vegas 5.0d

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GGman wrote on 8/1/2006, 10:29 PM
I have had a similar problem a few times. It turns out that the Vegas splash screen was hiding/covering another pop up window below it that was waiting for me to say yes, no or cancel. I now go to prefs and immediately set the No Spash Screen item so it won't hide the pop up if it ever shows again. Maybe resetting your video display to a different size might reveal that pop up I mentioned and you can answer it. I think I ended up reinstalling Vegas to get around it.

GG
Hurtman wrote on 8/1/2006, 10:32 PM
That sounds like the right idea. I'll give it a shot. I think it has to be something simple going on.

Thanks and Cheers!
gordyboy wrote on 8/2/2006, 4:51 AM
Doesn't sound like it's the same cause as your problem but I had this behaviour with Vegas for a while - caused by some browser hijacker type program rewriting some system files which are accessed when Vegas is loading. If I remember correctly, I had to go to the 'repair' folder in Windows and copy and replace the autoexec.nt and config.nt files into the 'system32' folder.

Then followed three weeks of trying to identify and eliminate what was causing the hijacking in the first place. Virus programs did not detect this, btw.

It also affected boot up of Acid in exactly the same way. Very annoying.


gb
Hurtman wrote on 8/2/2006, 10:32 PM
Yes it was indeed a browser highjacker that was undetected by my regular AVG virus guard. Through a couple of different scanners I picked up on where it was. Cleaned both my drives and did a fresh install and voila! Thanks for the tips.

Cheers!
Grazie wrote on 8/2/2006, 10:40 PM
GG? I'm curious:

"I have had a similar problem a few times. It turns out that the Vegas splash screen was hiding/covering another pop up window below it that was waiting for me to say yes, no or cancel. "

So, if Vegas wouldn't load, how DID you get INTO Vegas to change the prefs? Curious?
GGman wrote on 8/2/2006, 11:01 PM
I probably had the same probelm they had and cleared the offending app without knowing it. Maybe I did a whole new Image restore of my C drive and that got rid of it. I just remember that it was taking a long tme to figure out what was freezing the splash. And I saw that pop up underneath the splash, but I could not get to it to select cancel.

GG
Steve Mann wrote on 8/3/2006, 12:43 AM
"So, if Vegas wouldn't load, how DID you get INTO Vegas to change the prefs? Curious?"

Schrodinger's Cat?