[Douglystyles]

I think your right on with vegas being my computers demise… I think it just cant handle it anymore… heres why

I rendered the project last night in a lower quality setting (default is ‘good’, i went to ‘prieview’)… And it rendered perfectly fine, all the way through… But when i switched it back to ‘good’, it froze up. This leads me to think that my computer just cant handle that kind of rendering anymore. If this is the case is there anything i can do?

Thanks for the input… Very informative

[Douglystyles]

Ok… Update:
It turns out, the sound was not coming from my Main HD (C)… It was coming from the HD with all the video files on it. So i put my other HD (I have 3 total: C, a 40G and a 60G -> The 60G is the one that is making the noise. The 40G is the one i have used for years, and never had a problem with and C is the main HD with windows on it)

So i did a quick project on the 40G and had no problems rendering. I then copied all the files (that i am useing for the project that has been giving me problems) from my 60G to my 40G and tried to render it, and it froze. So i then tried to render in lower quality, and it got further on the render then it has before. So maybe its a quality setting. But why, after all these years would that happen? The project doesnt have a lot of effects, its pretty simple.

Are there any settings i may be missing to help rendering? I have messed with the “Dynamic RAM prievew max” settings under ‘Options’ – > ‘Prefrences’… But it hasnt helped any.

Im about to give up/Give in and buy a new computer (barebone).

Would this one do well for Editing?:
https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1592091&Sku=A455-2102%20F

If no, does anyone have suggestions? I have a good monitor, DVD burner and things, so i dont need a complete computer… And im not trying to spend much more then 700.00

Thanks everyone.

[Douglystyles]

Another thing i just did was put together another simple project with completely different video clips, and audio, to see if it would render… It was a very simple project but it too froze, but this time it got through about 95% of it… Now im totally lost…

[Douglystyles]

Here is what i have done since i last wrote:
I have swapped any possible different combination i could, without removing my C drive… Cause thats where XP is installed. I moved all the files to different drives and rendered to the same and different drives. I reinstalled, got the update patch. Installed Vegas on a whole other HD. Still freezing. Im not too sure what to do at this point… maybe vegas has some corruptness? Because i doubt all my HDs are failing… ?

I would get a new HD… But im begining to wonder if thats the problem.

Thanks againe…

[Douglystyles]

I was about to run the chk disk, but before i did it, ive been noticing a noise (like a dieing CPU fan), so i wanted to see what it was or if it was the other fan (the bigger one thats not actually on the mother-board). So i got up REAL close to the computer and noticed the sound was coming from the HD… Am I wrong, or is that a bad thing? Also, ive noticed that my old HD has been running EXTRA slow lately… That was the origonal reason why i got the new RAM in the first place. Should i be looking at a new HD possibly?

[Douglystyles]

I have checked each stick of ram sepperately, and also have checked each HD (the project is only about 3 megs in size… So i can burn it all to DVD and transfer it to my 3rd HD which was the old one i have done rendering on for the last 2 years. I also put everything back in that was origonally there before i got the new ram. Its funny you mention the scan disk, because i was just about to do that, and decided to check this and see if anyone posted. I also didnt know that building on one HD and rendering to another improves speeds… Does it work if the video is all on one HD (E – in my case), and the HD im going to render too has the program (C – in my case)?

“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.” – > not too sure what you mean.

Thanks again for the help.

[Douglystyles]

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

[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]

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!