I too am wondering if it was RAM as this has been a progressivly worsening issue but my tester can't handle 8G cards so thanks for the link. Luckily Corsair honors their product and in the past have given me complete replacement of a bad card. Unfortunatly this is a really bad time for me and I may be forced to remove the offending card and hold out replacement until after I'm done the project I'm working on.

....If it's the RAM.

If you can do it: my PC builder suggested to open the case, and clean it, especially the RAM memory connections, discard, clean it, and attach it again.

Vegas won't come close to using 32G of RAM. Take half of it out and try it. If it works fine, you know it's the other half of the RAM.

If Vegas still crashes with half the RAM out, take out another half of the RAM and try again - it will run fine with 8G or even 4G.

The good old "half interval method".

My cooling system is in another room(Liquid cooled), there's no dust inside my case.

Why won't it use that much ram? My project has 60+Gs of .TOD video in it?

The test is taking 1 hour per pass, per card so after the test on this card is done I'm putting them all back in, pull one and try it. Repeat each card and if it stops, test that pulled card.

If it turns out not to be a ram problem and the shut down was preceeded by a blue screen, you can use this viewer to determine exactly which driver failed.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

The only time I ever had an issue with Vegas was years ago and it turned out to be due to a no-name power supply I was using. Took forever to track the issue down, but basically that power supply being a generic brand couldn't supply the consistent power that Vegas needed and all sorts of weirdness would result, sometimes just basic crashes but also including system restarts. I switched to a more expensive but quality name brand power supply years ago and haven't had any issue with Vegas since.

+1 Pete!

Many PC owners dont understand how important a good and constant power supply is. Aside from a very good PSU I also have a UPS that not only safes me from power outage but also smooth over the "dirty" power that comes from a standard wall socket. I never had any of the issues people are complaining here, not with VP11 and not with VP12.

Run the Windows Reliability Monitor (Start/run/ "Reliability") and see if there's any helpful information.

"Run the Windows Reliability Monitor (Start/run/ "Reliability") and see if there's any helpful information."

Win7 64 bit can't find this program. Is this unique to Win8 or something else?

OK, I pulled ram cards one at a time and tried rendering my project and sure enough th esystem restarted. (FYI there was no blue screen after restart, just restarting.) I would put the card back in and pull the one next to it and try again. Finally on the last card I pulled before getting to the one that had passed one pass of the test, the render completed with no restart. In a bit I'm going to pull all cards and put that one card back in and run the ram test.

I had the restarting issue because my CPU got overheated!
Re-pasting a new cool sink on the CPU plus some new fans for airflow solved the problem.
That was on my previous system.

There are many tools available to check the CPU temp. I used the software that came with the Asus motherboard. Best is to do this during render. The restart always occurred during the renders of H264 files.

But reading your post it could be the RAM.

VMP

My CPU is designed to handle 160F. A CPUtemp program I run says all 8 cores are around 90-120F and my water coming out of the block is 75F. I used to have an overheating problem because of stagnant air in my studio so I mounted the radiator in my basement where it's 70F during a summer heatwave and ran the lines through the floor. This also almost completely silenced my system as now the only fan is the video card.

Win7
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Action Center\Reliability Monitor

From what I've read, I strongly suspect the PSU. Especially since you shed some load by pulling memory cards.

I believe I have the offending card found out and so far the system is no longer crashing. Not only did it fully render my project, I even was able to watch the playback for the full 8 minutes and not one restart. I even tested different slots but none of that made any difference. However the RAM test finds nothing wrong with the card but if I put it back in and test all the ram is restarts at about 70% pass.

"Win7 - Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Action Center\Reliability Monitor"

Steve I looked where you suggested, and there isn't a Reliability Monitor anywhere in my Control Panel. I checked under both drop downs, and it isn't there either. What version of Win7 do you have?

> "FYI there was no blue screen after restart, just restarting."

I know you've found the problem but I thought I would post this just in case you weren't aware of Microsoft's tactics.

We all know that Microsoft has always been plagued with what is now know as the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) problem. They claim that starting with Windows Vista customers would not "see" the BSOD anymore. Their "fix" was to hide it! So starting with Vista, you actually have to enable the BSOD otherwise the system will just reboot without notice. It's that nice? (NOT!)

Here's how to re-enable it:

(1) Right-click on Computer in the Windows Explorer and select Properties
(2) Click the Advanced System Settings link on the left
(3) On the Advanced tab, press the Settings... button under Startup and Recovery
(4) Under System Failure uncheck Automatically Restart

This will cause your computer to stop and show the BSOD on system failure so that you can actually diagnose the problem instead of mindlessly restarting. You may be able to put the offending card back and and get a better error message this way.

~jr

It must be a consumer feature - I am running Home Premium because I can only put 16Gb into this MB. (More RAM and dual processors is all Pro would give me).

The Reliability Monitor is a dumbed down version of the Event Viewer that shows the most significant events that affect performance.

Enabling Blue Screen like JohnyRoy suggested is also a good idea. I still suspect the PSU. Can you swap the suspect RAM with a known good one?

@Gary

On the Action screen in your capture above, click the Maintenance arrow to display the options. The first item has a list of options and the last one is "View reliability history". Selecting that one shows the Reliability Monitor.

That is a very handy one to review past hardware and software actions.

Hope that helps
Willem.

I had looked under the Maintenance Drop-down, but I was expecting Reliability Monitor to be a Major item in the list, not a small option link under a different major list selection.

When I ran it, it opened a Window and put up and hourglass for about 2 minutes. Then it drew a graph with no data in it. I don't know what to make of these results. Anyway Thanks Willem.

You click on any of the events on the graph to see what caused it.

Steve, the graph was blank. No line in the plot, and no events in the list.