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FCP/Mac Crashing
We contract for a client who owns a a FCP system on a Mac G5 dual core. It’s always run fine until the past few days. Now it’s continually crashing whether we’re in FCP or not. If we just go to finder it also crashes.
We’ve noticed the problem has escalated since we imported footage from different formats/frame rates into the system. But again it crashes without using FCP.
We recently bought to Graid3 drives, hooked up to firewire 800 connections. We also installed two SIIG firewire 800 ports into the mac, since we have about 14 external Graid drives connected to the Mac.We’ve repaired permissions. Nothing has helped. We also recently upgraded to leopard.
We have successfully edited 8 bit uncompressed shows with no problem over the past several weeks until now. Any thoughts?
Thanks much
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5 Replies
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When you say crashing, what exactly do you mean?
Jeremy
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Computer locks up, FCP closes, or if FCP is not running the Mac freezes up.
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How many PCI cards do you have in there? If you pull any of the firewire drives, does it get any better?
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It sounds like you are going to have to do the trouble shoot shuffle. First thing I would do is remove any hardware that you have added since you started having trouble and disconnect any new drives you may have. In your case, I would remove the Firewire 800 card from your Mac and restart. Then see if you get the same problem. If everything works, then add one thing at a time until it doesn’t work. It sucks, but this is a good place to start if no one has a direct answer.
You could check with the Firewire card manufacturer and see if there is any conflict using 2 of the same card on the same system. There may also be a hidden limitation on the Mac side.
Hope this helps.
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I would begin by swapping out your memory if possible. In my experience, memory can go bad without warning or provocation, and cause all kinds of insanity inducing freezes and crashes. A memory swap is a quick and easy “elimination.”
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