System Crashes during Prepare

StevenBell wrote on 9/8/2003, 11:58 AM
I can only get a few percent of the way into a "prepare for DVD burning" before my entire system locks up. It is somewhat sporatic.

Unplugging USB, firewire, modem, and printer seems to help, but I can't understand why a process which does nothing more than read data, perform computations and write data would have anything do with these devices (or their drivers).

Any ideas on how I could track this down? (Yes, I could plug them in one at a time and try to "prepare").

Steven Bell
Top of the Hill Music
Asus A7M266-D
two 1900+
Enermax 451W "whisper" PSU
1 GB non-registered, non-ECC DDR
WinXP Pro SP1
3 Seagate Barracuda HDs (using Mobo controller)
Sony DRU-500A DVD/CD burner
Floppy
Asus USB 2.0 IDE
Pyro 1394 DV
2 Delta 1010 (using .50027 drivers)
Matrox G550 dual DVI (running in analog mode) using certified drivers
2 ViewSonic VX900
SONAR 2.2
Sound Forge 5.x
Vegas 4.0 (obviously)
Samplitude Master 6.x
USB - Cannon G1 camera
USB - MOTU Fastlane 2x2 MIDI interface
USB - Compaq PDA cradle
firewire to DV camera
COM1 to USR modem
LPT1 to Epson printer

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 9/8/2003, 12:46 PM
is your machine running too hot?
StevenBell wrote on 9/8/2003, 9:52 PM
Not according to the Asus Monitor, although I can certainly watch it more closely.

At one point I kept the Asus "probe" monitor running during the render just to see if something was going on, but it locked up while the processor and Mobo temps were still nominal. (CPUs in the 50's (celcius) and the mobo in the 30's.

After turning off the machine (my only choice) and turning it back on, XP asked if I wanted to send the crash info to MS. They didn't have anything specific other than that a driver had failed.

And that's what puzzles me: why only during the offline processes (It's also locking up while rendering in Vegas)?

Steven