[Ken Wood]

Jan,

Here is the link: https://www.dependencywalker.com/

I had the name wrong, it’s Dependency Walker not checker.

Try it!

[Ken Wood]

Jan,

Send me a real email to kenwood@thesportsresort.com and I’ll find a way to get you a copy of Depend Checker.

Also, you can just stop MSSQL as a service. And, i’m pretty sure that MM can be un-installed from Add/Rem programs.
Unless you are a really big film house I doubt you will need it.

I’ll see if I can find simple docs for DepChk. Basically, you start it in background and tell it which program you want to check. It has a foreground program that will show all of the dependencies. It is for programmers but I have found it useful in cases like yours.

[Ken Wood]

Do you really need the MSSql and Media Mgr stuff? Unless you have a huge amount of media I’d turn it off. To me if you really need MM it would make sense to use the media manager on a different machine as the overhead is substantial.

What happens if you install the same Vegas 8a on a different machine? Does it work?

BTW: There is a MS utility called, Dependency Checker that may prove useful in this case. It will tell you if a DLL or something is missing or of a wrong version. It has saved me several times over the years. Do a Google. I’m sure you will find it.

You have great problem here. I want to see where it goes and what it takes to fix it.

Keep us all in the loop.

[Ken Wood]

I think you have a hardware combination that Vegas doesn’t like.
If I were in your shoes I think I would pull one of the Xeon chips out and see if you can get Vegas to run on just one chip.
As I have never had a dual processor machine I don’t quite know how you would re-do the OS to run on just one. A BIOS setup?
I know that on the Single Zeon or Pent Pro you could disable/disable the multi-processor through hardware manager.

You haven’t given much info as to error codes. Are there any bodies in the Event Log? Check system and application log. (Rt click My Computer | Manage | event logs.
And, what happens when you try to run Vegas ? Crash PC (BSOD)hang, shows nothing?
Go into Task Mgt (CTRL-ALT-DEL) Processes and click the CPU to see is anything Vegas like is running.
Are there any warning errors in H/W Mgr?

What happens if you try using a different graphics card?
You need to try to do stuff that will make something different happen.

We need more info!
ken wood
camarillo, ca
the states

[Ken Wood]

You are brilliant!
Thank you. Learning the ins and outs Vegas is like eating an elephant.
This forum is great!

[Ken Wood]

Great. Now I can split the clip.
What are the next steps?
How do I save the split clips to separate projects?
I know that these are the real basics but I have not been able to find help on how to do this.
Thanks in advance.
kaw