PC shuts down during render.

KSTONER wrote on 5/16/2010, 1:26 PM

Hey there gents. I'm trying to render a simple train video for my dad and around the 15% mark my PC just shuts off. I've tried manually cleaning my computer, due to a huge dust build up, but to no avail. This has happened 3 times now. What do you guys think the problem/solution could be?

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stopint wrote on 5/16/2010, 1:40 PM

my pc does not shut down but vegas crashes when i try to render a file using the apple ipod preset...never had prob before...it seems to have started happening after i updated quicktime a few weeks back...

gpsmikey wrote on 5/16/2010, 1:42 PM

It could be a heat issue or a corrupted file (I have seen other apps that simply leave town when they hit corrupted files). Try a different video file and see if it dies after the same amount of time (which would make me suspect heat) of if it goes all the way through (which would tend to point to an issue with the file). You don't say just what format the file is in, but you might try using one of the free utilities out there to convert the file to a different format and see how that works (I have seen good comments on "format factory" (free) although I have not used it myself.

Have you made sure that not only is the system clean inside, but all the fans are running ? That can cause serious heat issues (and many of the cheap fans have sleeve bearings that give up).

mikey

KSTONER wrote on 5/16/2010, 2:19 PM

Ahh sorry gents. The video format was a standard avi format from a Mini DV camera.
I decided to do what mikey suggested and do different footage. Sure enough, it turns out that the footage I had was corrupted. Any ideas as to what I can do to save this? Should I recapture the footage, and if so, what do you guys suggest I do differently? I had all of the "un-neededs" (Side bar, Winamp agent, etc.) shut off.
Thanks for the help so far!

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/16/2010, 2:32 PM

recapture. If it was DV nothing else you can do besides capture.

There's also a chance the drive is bad in that spot or the ram's bad too. If the drives bad the only way you'll know is when something goes there again. You can run memtest86 to check the ram.

I'd also keep a motherboard monitoring programming running to keep track of your temps. It could still be a heat problem, just could be that the second piece of footage didn't overheat your system for whatever reason.

rs170a wrote on 5/16/2010, 2:34 PM

Sure enough, it turns out that the footage I had was corrupted.

All of it? Some of it?

Mike

farss wrote on 5/17/2010, 1:54 AM

Never, ever had "corrupted" DV cause Vegas grief.
i'm, more inclined to think the recent overheating problem has accelerated the demise of capacitors in the power supply or on the mobo or both.

You could test this by running one of those tests that runs everything at 100% load for hours.

Bob.

Kevin R wrote on 5/17/2010, 2:15 AM

Do this and you'll find out REAL QUICK if it's a heat issue:

Torture test your CPU with Prime95

rs170a wrote on 5/17/2010, 2:30 AM

Core Temp (it's free) will tell you how hot your CPU is getting.
I had a similar issue about a year or so ago.
When a thorough "dust bunny" cleaning didn't cure it, I took it into my local PC repair shop.
They discovered that the original thermal paste (obviously the cheap stuff) had broken down.
A layer of the good stuff was applied and everything was back to normal.

Mike