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Major Crash Issues
Over the last month, my system has been crashing more and more frequently. About four weeks ago, I’d crash every other day. Now I’m crashing four to five times a day. Each time I experience a crash, I trash my FCP prefs (all three), do a safe reboot and repair disk permissions, but this doesn’t have any effect.
I cannot identify any consistent pattern to the crashes. Does anyone have any advice? This has pretty much brought my editing to a stand-still.
System Specs:
FCP 4.5HD
G5 dual 2.5
2GB RAM
Tempo X RAID
Kona 2
Decklink HD (SDI to DVI)Any Feedback Would Be Appreciated,
Christian
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5 Replies
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Christian,
I had very similar problems. Have you tried an “Archive and Install” of the system? You didn’t state what you are running, Tiger or Panther. A clean install of the operating system fixed a bunch of problems I was having. Is it only FCP that’s crashing?
Also, I discovered that my G5 demanded that I use Apple memory. I tried other third party RAM, but the third party RAM and the RAM that came in my G5 didn’t play well together!
The clean install helped alot.
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I tried reinstalling Panther, but the problem still exists. Within five minutes of editing, the system crashed.
Any other ideas would be helpful.
Christian
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hi Christian
it does smack of bad RAM … if the crashing doesn’t fit any particuar pattern and isn’t limited soley to FCP then it may be that you have some RAM gone bad … try going back to the original RAM configuration as shipped, see if it still happens … if you haven’t installed any extra third party RAM, or if it still crashes even with the original RAM, then try swapping out the RAM you do have one stick at a time and see if you can find a bad one.
hope it helps
Andy -
yes make sure you take out the 3 rd party ram
apple ram may be more exp but its covered and if your system gets wacked because of cheap stuff apple wont cover it
apple or crucial are your best bet for ram thats safe -
Hi Christian-
I was having similar problems w/ crashing and general instability until I added RAM. I read at the G5 Owners Support Group that 4.5 gig is the general sweet spot for FCP, as it loves to use the RAM. So now we have 5.5 gigs here (Crucial RAM) and the system is a rock. It really is money well spent. ‘Specially for a rig like yours!
Take care,
Bee
G5 dual 2.0/5.5gig/sonnet allegro FW800 PCI/3X250 LaCie FW800 extreme/AJA Io/Horita BSG-50/DSR-45/DSR-11/M-Audio Delta 1010LT/JVC Hi-Res Ref Monitor/stock Radeon video card/Prod Suite/Logic 7.1
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