WTF???

Movick wrote on 6/3/2010, 11:06 AM
Figured I'd try the V9.0e trial and see whether it would make sense to upgrade now from V5. The program installed "successfully" and it seemed to launch and open fine. I made a copy of a .veg file from V5 and opened it in V9; the playback was lousy then all of a sudden...blue screen!!!!

My PC rebooted autonomously and after I logged on, MS gave me a warning that my PC had recovered from a serious error! Anyone know what the hell's going on here?

Mov

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/3/2010, 11:12 AM
something on your computer has an issue with playback. Does it do it any more?
Movick wrote on 6/3/2010, 11:15 AM
Not yet...I'm afraid to work with this thing now!

Can crashes like this cause system damage? As such should I just scrap V9 until I get a new PC?
musicvid10 wrote on 6/3/2010, 12:41 PM
Don't mean to worry you any further, but for me those messages were a precursor to a complete hard drive failure.

You should back up everything you can before tinkering with it.
Movick wrote on 6/3/2010, 4:16 PM
It would be nice if a SV tech would chime in; afterall I downloaded and installed their software and I hope to heaven it didn't frick up my PC in so doing!!!
ushere wrote on 6/3/2010, 4:59 PM
no system specs?

musicvid10 wrote on 6/3/2010, 7:23 PM
After backing up your system, you should see if reinstalling your video drivers cures the problem.
ingvarai wrote on 6/4/2010, 1:01 AM
>Anyone know what the hell's going on here?

I do not know, but I can guess.
I had the same two years ago. I was rendering in Vegas, and repeatedly got "blue screen of death". It was a long way to find the source. It turns out - when doing very processor intensive operations, - on my computer - RAM voltage is crucial. I used the supplied ASUS mother board utility and upped the RAM voltage from 1.8 to 2.0. No blue screen of death anymore!!
Just to give you an idea that blue screens are caused by hardware issues, seldom the software itself.
Ingvar