pc crash with gordian knot, please help me

[swedish hobbit]

i have a fujitsu-siemens pc with 1000mhz cpu and 386 mb ram,and i have xp home edition.
a week ago i installed gknot to my pc and i got a warning from my system that my pc could crash no or later if i installed this program,but since i hade gknot installed befor and most of these programs today is xp compatibel, so i ignord the warning and installed it anyeay, 10 hrs later my pc complitly crashed i lost everything in my pc and had to format my hard disk and install xp again.
can someone tell why this happend and since i realy like gknot its a very good encoding program,what can i do so this dosent happen again.
many thanks in advance
:) :) :)
the swedish hobbit:)

[uklawman]

I doubt very much that Gordian Knot was the cause of your system crash, since there are many people (myself included) who run Gordian Knot in Windows XP, in fact I run it in XP Pro and have had no problems with it todate. For XP to crash bringing with it the whole hard disk without any chance to recover from it suggests that you must have had some major file/partition damage done to your hard disk for this kind of thing to happen.

The fact you were able to run Gordian Knot for a number of hours before your system crashed, suggests to me that [maybe] as you were using Gordian Knot durring its hard disk conversion/encoding process that it acted as a trigger to the eventual system crash, rather than it being the cause. Now that your hard disk has been reformated and fresh Windows files restored, try re-installing Gordian Knot and try again. It might help to create a RESTORE point in Windows just before you re-install Gordian Knot just to be on the safe side. Then you can roll-back any changes Gordian Knot makes to your hard disk should it again threaten to crash your pc.

I know this may sound pretty basic, but its all too easy to run out of hard disk space when ripping DVD's, even with many Gigabytes of Hard disk space to start of with, especially when your saving the finished Divx movies on your hard disk for later viewing, as I usually do.

Hope some of this helps?

[swedish hobbit]

thanks for your answer :) and i will try with gknot again and see if it works . disk space is nt a problem ,i have 40 gigs .
but why did my pc warn me from installing gknot when i installed it :confused:
many thanks again :)

[theReal]

I'd also check the case- and cpu temperatures. Fujitsu-Siemens PCs (and complete systems from other manufacturers) are often made to be very low-noised for office environments, but this doesn't always meet the requirements for long-time stress tasks like video encoding.

Maybe you need to install additional and/or stronger fans, also for the sake of your harddrive (cool HD's are a lot safer than if they run very hot).

Also, install your OS on another partition than where you keep your data - that way you can easily format the OS partition without loosing all your personal files :)

[swedish hobbit]

yes i have thought of installing one more fan, just in case my hd get over heat ed. thanks for your answer:)
swedish hobbit:)