vegas keeps crashing HELP ME!!!

Edward wrote on 12/1/2004, 6:53 PM
someone please help. my vegas is on the fritz. the video capture doesn't load up, it keeps giving me an error message. it asks me if I want to load the previous one, and weather i say yes or no, it crashes. i've reloaded the vv5.0b about a dozen times, and it still causes problems. when i render more than 4 tracks, vegas crashes. when i try to render using both .mov and .avi files in the project, it crashes. chaining more than two plugins on the same track will crash it. i recently updated my direct x support, and still the same thing. what am I doing wrong? please help me, i'm going nuckin' futz at this point. and yes, i bought my copy of vegas... (just in case you were wondering)

alienware (2004)
dual amd 2800
nvidia quadro fx 3000
dual drive 80gb with external maxtor 250gb (firewire)
1gb ram

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/1/2004, 7:04 PM
So it's just started to do this?

Did you install something recently?

Tried doing a system restore to go back to the settings when it was working ok?
mhbstevens wrote on 12/1/2004, 7:04 PM
OS? When did this start? Have you tried System Restore to find a time when this did not happen or are you saying your V5b has ALWAYS done this? These crashed are likely driver conflics so I ask have you updated any drivers? Changed any hardware?

Are you doing good system maintainance? File cleaning? Defraging HD? Ddefraging registry? Removeing spyware? Running ant-virus software?
Edward wrote on 12/1/2004, 10:22 PM
First of all, thanks for the attention to my problem. I appreciate it alot. It was a driver for my CD drive that was bad. Because of that, every thing else went haywire. I installed the latest driver, and everything is fine. It wasn't my V5b at all. Thanks again for your help.
Edward wrote on 12/1/2004, 11:36 PM
crap, it did it again. it started ever since i reinstalled windows xp pro. it hasn't been the same since. i just tried to do a prerender, and the computer just rebooted by itself. i did everything i can system wise... maybe it's the software. i'm trying to download it from Sony's site again, then reinstalling it. thanks for your help again.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/1/2004, 11:50 PM
It' quite unlikely to be the Vegas software. It is more likely to be something wrong with your hardware. Something come loose inside?

Download some stress testing software to run some full system tests.
Edward wrote on 12/2/2004, 5:15 AM
talk to my alienware tech guy, he says it was the graphic card. switched it from the default of 64 to 128 to get rid of the bottleneck. does that make sense? with everything that i had trouble with vegas (not saying that vegas was the problem)? it was the graphic card? (by the way, nvidia quadro fx 3000 128 mb)

rendering some big chunky files right now... and it hasn't crashed .... ugh.... i hate to say it.... yet.

thanks Liam.