Dropbear
18th March 2002, 02:58
I have had two or three weeks of pure frustration which I think (hope) may be at an end.
I have had numerous cases of CCE crashing out mid encode, back to the screen where it is waiting for the "ENCODE" button to be pressed. All of these crashes have happened during the day, while I am at work. I set it off in the morning and hope to come home after work and find the encode finished. Most of the time it wasn't. I assumed the problem was heat related, causing PC instability, so went off on a crusade of running Prime95 and Memory Testers. All came back ok.
*bear with me, this does get interesting, honest*
Anyway it finally clued to me that my partner has been using the PC during the day, doing things like using Mail programs, web surfing and MP3 playing. She says she doesn't touch "my stuff"... Anyway on the weekend I was 40 minutes from finishing an encode and she started playing with the PC. When I went back in there, the encode had crashed. She promised she did not close anything down, just opened up a mail program and winamp and stuff. It seems her 'playing' had crashed CCE.
I created a new user under Windows XP as a trial and re-started the whole process under that new user. I used fast user switching to switch back to the normal account and throughout the day made sure I played with the PC doing general things as much as possible. CCE had no problems and did a three hour movie successfuly..
So with a sample set of one test so far (not much I know), it seems like the fast user switch option might save me a lot of hassle.
If you're having problems with CCE crashing, and yet Prime95 reports your PC as stable, then maybe you can try this.
My specs.
Athlon 1.2@1.33
Windows XP Professional
768M RAM (768M swap file)
ABIT KT7A-RAID, 2X40G RAID ARRAY
I have had numerous cases of CCE crashing out mid encode, back to the screen where it is waiting for the "ENCODE" button to be pressed. All of these crashes have happened during the day, while I am at work. I set it off in the morning and hope to come home after work and find the encode finished. Most of the time it wasn't. I assumed the problem was heat related, causing PC instability, so went off on a crusade of running Prime95 and Memory Testers. All came back ok.
*bear with me, this does get interesting, honest*
Anyway it finally clued to me that my partner has been using the PC during the day, doing things like using Mail programs, web surfing and MP3 playing. She says she doesn't touch "my stuff"... Anyway on the weekend I was 40 minutes from finishing an encode and she started playing with the PC. When I went back in there, the encode had crashed. She promised she did not close anything down, just opened up a mail program and winamp and stuff. It seems her 'playing' had crashed CCE.
I created a new user under Windows XP as a trial and re-started the whole process under that new user. I used fast user switching to switch back to the normal account and throughout the day made sure I played with the PC doing general things as much as possible. CCE had no problems and did a three hour movie successfuly..
So with a sample set of one test so far (not much I know), it seems like the fast user switch option might save me a lot of hassle.
If you're having problems with CCE crashing, and yet Prime95 reports your PC as stable, then maybe you can try this.
My specs.
Athlon 1.2@1.33
Windows XP Professional
768M RAM (768M swap file)
ABIT KT7A-RAID, 2X40G RAID ARRAY