Freezing Probs

[Gary Kleiner]

Try to troubleshoot by rendering a different section of the project and see if you get the same result.

Gary

[Rich Stahle]

I had that happen once and it turned out I had a corrupt file as part of the media.

I guess what I’m saying is – double check your media in the timeline!

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Damaged Goods

[Jeremy Rochefort]

We need to get some more info!

What happens when the computer freezes? Are all your devices (keyboard, mouse etc) locked up? If so, this sounds like a hardware IO problem to me – more than likely disc related. Are you using IDE or SATA drives?

Tell us more so we can try and help

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Douglystyles]

Yeah, the whole computer locks up… I start rendering, and within 5 – 10 sec of the render, the whole Computer locks up, and i cant do anything unless i turn it off. I have used this computer for the last 3 years to edit/render on Vegas 3/4 and now 6. This is the first time its ever done this. The ONLY thing i can think of is i just went from 256megs (2 x 128) of ram to 640 megs (1 X 128 and 1 x 512)… But to me it doesnt make sence that increasing my ram would make it lock my comp up.

The other thing, is that i just put in a new (used) 40 gig HD for this project, and i thought that may have been the problem… But I transfered the whole project over to my trusty old HD, that i have used numorous times, and it still didnt work… curious…

Thanks for the responces!

[Gary Kleiner]

[DouglyStyles] “i just went from 256megs (2 x 128) of ram to 640 megs (1 X 128 and 1 x 512)…”

Many motherboards require matched pairs of RAM sticks. That could be your problem.

Gary

[Jeremy Rochefort]

Gary is msot probably 100% correct here.

Rules of ram:
1. Never mix ram from diff manufacturers
2. you should never have unmatched pairs (eg. 128 + 512)
3. when upgrading, always buy the size you require NEW and sell your old. This way you can be sure your ram is always the same manufacturer and hopefully same batch as well.

cheers

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[Donatello]

IMO mixing 128 with a 512 ram should not cause problems ..
and as others have stated mixing wrong ram could cause problems .. if it is RDRAM (rambus) it must match perfectly..
if it is SDRAM beware that they make a hi and low ( which the package does NOT state) some Mother Boards can take either hi or lo and others only one of them .. Dells can take both .. compaq/hp only takes one of em and i don’t remember which ( had this problem last springs with a friends compaq .. we kept buying different RAM and ended up taking ram from one of my dells and it worked in the compaq and the new ram worked in DELL ) ..

you might take out the 512 to see what happens on a render ..and then just have the 512 installed to see if it renders .. if they BOTH can render by themselves then i would say they can’t work together … go with the 512 ..

[Douglystyles]

Thanks for the help… Ill try the ram switch now… Here is the other question… If i wanted to go back to the store and buy another 512, is there such a thing as haveing TOO much ram for a given motherboard? Or is it basicly the more the marrier?

Thanks again for all the help

[Douglystyles]

I took the ram out… Still freezing… could it be a bad/slow HD?

[Jeremy Rochefort]

Have you tested each stick of ram seperately? If you have access to a totally stick of ram from a friend or another machine – try that. Personally, I DON’t believe in mixing different sizes or makes of ram – too often in the past years I have burnt my fingers with this approach.

This also very similar to a problem I had a while back. First thing you should do is check the drive for any errors –
Open My Computer, and then select the local disk you want to check. On the File menu, click Properties.
On the Tools tab, under Error-checking, click Check Now.
Under Check disk options, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box.

The next important thing to do is to defragment the drive. This will not only possibly resolve issues, but also speed up any rendering. The ideal scenario is to work on one hard drive and then render to another physical drive. This DOES improve rendering speeds.

How full is the drive you are busy working on – anywhere near 90% full before rendering is going to be dicey.

Have you over-clocked any part of your system – if so, this can and does have an impact especially if ram timings were played with.

In short, you need to eliminate each possible component one by one. Does the render work on any other project on a different drive?

Cheers

Jeremy

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