NVIDIA - Who has their cards

reamenterprises wrote on 4/3/2003, 6:48 AM
VV Users,

I have come across a very irritating bug in the program and/or my system. This is my second system with using both VV3 and VV4. I am not able to render large projects. The program crashes or my system automatically reboots. This also impacts with the use of DVD Architect.

I have used the following three Nvidia chips... Vanta, Geforce 4 MX440 and Geforce MX460. When I replace these with a much older S3 card everything works fine. Even with an ATI card. This leads me to assuming that the system error is within the NVIDIA card. Does anyone else ever experience this? If so, has you found a remedy?

Thank you,

Chad

Comments

dcrandall wrote on 4/3/2003, 7:02 AM
Have you tried reducing the "Hardware acceleration" control located in "Display Properties"?
  • Velocity Micro Z55 Desktop Computer
  • ASUS Prime Z270M-Plus Motherboard
  • Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.2GHz
  • Memory: 16GB DDR4-2400MHz
  • 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Driver Version: Studio Driver 452.06
  • Windows 10 Home 64bit v1909
  • Vegas Pro 18.0 Build 284
Erk wrote on 4/3/2003, 9:24 AM
No problems here with VV 3 or V4 using a Geoforce MX440, WinXP, Asus A7V333 mobo.

G
Mikee wrote on 4/3/2003, 12:59 PM
>auto reboot

In order to diagnose this type of thing, if you are running Win2K or WinXP, be sure the automatic reboot is OFF. In Win2K, you should right click on "My Computer" -> Properies -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery. Then UNCHECK Automatically reboot. This way, when it crashes next, you'll see the Blue Screen of Death with (hopefully) what caused the problem. Write down the file/driver name, and search for it after reboot. Be sure you have the latest version/update/bios/driver/etc.

Of course if this machine is a server and needs max uptime, you may want it to auto reboot.

Regardless, you probably should be running the latest NVIDIA driver.
Maestro wrote on 4/3/2003, 1:16 PM
I have XP and an MX440, and have never had a problem. I used to have a problem with the video card crashing all the time when running 3D games, but ultimately it was due to bad RAM.
PAW wrote on 4/3/2003, 4:29 PM

You say second system - so this is the older PC?

What is it, detailed spec (OS, manufacturer, motherboard chipset, processor are the order of priorities).

S3 drivers means you have turned off 50% of a modern PC.

Thanks, PAW
prairiedogpics wrote on 4/3/2003, 7:16 PM
Vision Tek GeForce2 MX 400 on XP Pro with very latest Detonator drivers (41.0x?).
Vegas 3 AND 4 currently installed. Intel D815EAA mobo. 512 MB RAM.
Kicks butt.
David_Kuznicki wrote on 4/4/2003, 2:05 AM
I've had no problems with an MX440-- hell, I've got it installed on the computer that I'm using to post this...
No problems with Vegas, or with Lightwave 7.5, come to think of it...

David.
reamenterprises wrote on 4/4/2003, 2:42 PM
Alright, thanks for the feedback so far everyone.

I am currently using a MSI mother board with a Athalon XP 1900. I have 1 gig of memory on the system, but took not of the case of memory. I downgraded to 128 MB different brand and everything worked fine.

The mystery continues... I remove the NVIDIA card and keep the old memory and everything works... OR I keep the NVIDIA card and replace the memory.

I am currently using memory from ALL COMPONENTS, I know not the top of the line but I have never had any problems in the past, plus everything elese works just fine.

Any additional comments are appreciated.

Chad
TRS80 wrote on 4/5/2003, 10:09 AM
Many times, if your computer has 4 slots for memory, you can eliminate the 4th bank of ram and resolve a host of mysterious computer crashes. For several reasons, the fourth bank of ram often produces problems and this is why many manufacturers produce boards with 3 slots instead of four.
DataMeister wrote on 4/5/2003, 1:51 PM
TRS80,

Now that's interesting to know about the 4 slot problem. And it's a strange sounding problem too. I wonder what might be causing the 4th slot to act up. Does it happen just with certain chipsets? Or just with certain memory archtectures (RDRAM, DDRAM, etc.). Would be interesting to know if they've narrowed things down.

JBJones
TRS80 wrote on 4/5/2003, 10:41 PM
If I recall this subject correctly, four slots require a physical distance on the motherboard that opens the memory bus to much greater noise, and to eliminate high freq noise takes more expensive components and very precise timing. The presence of three memory slots on many motherboards is deliberate. Best regards, Larry