V8 crash in "ntdll.dll" in HDV project

john-beale wrote on 3/21/2008, 4:03 PM
Just had V8b crash on me. I was surprised since it normally doesn't. I'm running WinXP SP2. I was working on a project with HDV source material (1080i). Does the below error message make any more sense to anyone else, than it does to me?

Sony Vegas Pro 8.0
Version 8.0b (Build 217)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x1010 IP:0x7C918FEA
In Module 'ntdll.dll' at Address 0x7C900000 + 0x18FEA
Thread: VideoCache ID=0x74 Stack=0x3AFF000-0x3B00000
Registers:
EAX=00001000 CS=001b EIP=7c918fea EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=0023 ESP=03aff594 EBP=03aff608
ECX=0000271c DS=0023 ESI=00020000 FS=003b
EDX=00020010 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
7C918FEA: FF 40 10 8B 45 FC 83 E0 .@..E...
7C918FF2: 01 89 45 E8 8B 06 FF 40 ..E....@
Stack Dump:
03AFF594: 03AFF7A0 03A00000 + FF7A0
03AFF598: 00000000
[EDIT: ... more hex code follows...]

Comments

CorTed wrote on 3/21/2008, 4:23 PM
I'm not sure if even Microsoft really knows what happened from this message. I have seen similar messages when I got crashes, and generally this happens when your available RAM is 'filled' up.
Try to put less clips on the time line

Ted
jabloomf1230 wrote on 3/21/2008, 4:27 PM
Try turning off Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for Vegas 8P, under Advanced System Options using the Windows Control Panel. It fixes a variety of goofy crashes with Vegas 8P, and who knows? It might fix this one also.
Darren Powell wrote on 3/21/2008, 6:01 PM
How about Sony just fix Vegas?... it's a major PITA.
Steve Mann wrote on 3/21/2008, 7:32 PM
Two gripes here....

1) Why do people post those hundred or so lines of debug text that means NOTHING to anyone except a programmer.

2) Why do people want to blame the application they are using when, especially in this case, you likely have a virus. Ntdll.dll is a favorite target of hackers and you should disable IIS because this is the path that the hackers use to install the virus. You can download the security patch from Microsoft. (It's only in XT, and if it isn't in your system32 folder, it's not the original one).

john-beale wrote on 3/21/2008, 8:23 PM
If anyone else is seeing this, here's a page about ntdll.dll problems. However it isn't too helpful... it appears that the problem could be absolutely anything. http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/a/ntdlldll.htm

I found you can check that windows system files are not corrupt by typing
sfc /scannow
(have your original WinXP install CD handy)
EDIT: YIKES! after running the above "System File Check", Windows freezes on bootup and won't start. So maybe you should not follow this advice.

FWIW, I have two (identical) versions of this particular file, at
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\ntdll.dll
jabloomf1230 wrote on 3/21/2008, 10:21 PM
"1) Why do people post those hundred or so lines of debug text that means NOTHING to anyone except a programmer."

It's like asking a psychotic guy to tell you what exactly is wrong with him.