AutoGK / XviD .. Reboots my PC?

[LordTrace]

Been using AutoGK for a looong time without any problems.. and today every time try to encode it just randomly restarts my computer.

The computer is overclocked and i recently lost all my BIOS settings on reboot somehow so i thought maybe it was my settings from "re-tweaking"

Sempron64 2800 1.6 @ 2.6

Now that i have run 2xPrim95 for hours (Still going as i type) and SuperPI mod at the same time (also ran a 9 pass CCE encode last night with no problems).. I'm pretty sure the PC is stable.

Any ideas? I tryed uninstalling and reinstalling AutoGK and everything that comes with it and don't have any stupid codec packs installed. I don't have any logs but i remember seeing a warning about number of frames being different between pass 1 and 2 .. I also don't see any software problems in the event viewer *sigh*

[setarip_old]

Hi!

If available to you, did you try performing a "System Restore"?

[LordTrace]

Hey! hehe :D

I always have system restore turned off since i re-install XP every 1 to 2 months. Guess i could try that tomorrow.

[setarip_old]

There won't be any point to that, since you don't have any previous restore points established (Because, as you say, you've always had "System Restore" turned off)...

[LordTrace]

I meant re-install XP

[setarip_old]

Ok, I understand...

[CWR03]

Your computer is either overheating or has a hardware issue. It's not probable that AutoGK or any other software is causing it to restart.

[jggimi]

As CWR03 suggests, your symptoms tend to indicate a hardware problem -- heat is the most common problem, followed by failing RAM, followed by a failing power supply.

See http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=54130 to learn how to diagnose hardware trouble, monitor temperatures and fan speeds, and stress test your PC.

[LordTrace]

I work at a computer store so i know all this...

If it was just heat/hardware then it would not be able to run TWO instances of prime95 at once for 9+ hours, multiple SuperPI calcs at the same time and it wouldn't ONLY be crashing during XviD encodes. :(

Guess i will try a clean OS. Maybe test my ram first.. but I'm betting its fine since everything else (software wise) is working fine ..

EDIT: Heres an old pic of my comp i found (still the same today). Been running stable for a year or so.

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/9688/compocxd5.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=compocxd5.jpg)

At idle none of the heat sinks or the RAM even feel very warm. At load they are very warm but not hot. CPU is actually 29C at the moment :P

[setarip_old]

My money is on faulty RAM...

[LordTrace]

I'll give it a test when i have time .. but i don't see how it could run prime95 and Super PI with bad RAM

EDIT: Ran Memtest for 32 mins (not long enough for a full test i know but i need to work on the PC right now) seems fine. I have found over the years that most bad RAM fails within the first few mins also.

[jeffy]

Regarding your image, are you supplying your RAM with enough voltage? As I can see it, you are running DDR400 @ DDR500, which is 20% overclock, and to top it off with the timings 2.5-3-3-8...

Have you always had such settings? What RAM modules do you have? (declared timings, voltage etc.)

Regarding MemTest: yes, some memories fail within a few (1-2) passes of full MemTest, but some can take even a few hours; unbelievable as it may seem, but I was able with DDR2 RAM, which proved to be faulty, to run the system for long hours without a BSOD, it even managed to pass Prime 95 for hours, yet in the long run it failed. It gave me the present in the end, corrupt hard drive partitions all around :mad: Finally, one of the two sticks failed to POST.

[LordTrace]

Regarding your image, are you supplying your RAM with enough voltage? As I can see it, you are running DDR400 @ DDR500, which is 20% overclock, and to top it off with the timings 2.5-3-3-8...

Have you always had such settings? What RAM modules do you have? (declared timings, voltage etc.)
Yes its getting enough volts.
Yes its running DDR 500 %20 :D
Yes been running those settings since the day i bought it. (Ran Memtest overnight back then)
I actually forget the rated timings and exact stick it is lol.. It was so long ago.

Regarding MemTest: yes, some memories fail within a few (1-2) passes of full MemTest, but some can take even a few hours; unbelievable as it may seem, but I was able with DDR2 RAM, which proved to be faulty, to run the system for long hours without a BSOD, it even managed to pass Prime 95 for hours, yet in the long run it failed. It gave me the present in the end, corrupt hard drive partitions all around :mad: Finally, one of the two sticks failed to POST.
I normally run it over night .. just ran a quick one today while i watched a TV show.

I just finished a clean XP install .. see how it goes in a bit

EDIT: I'm on pass 2 of an encode *Crosses fingers* hehe

EDIT2: [4/4/2007 7:31:41 PM] Job finished. *shrugs*

[jggimi]

You can blame Microsoft, if you want. But ....

The likely root cause of all of your troubles is overclocking your RAM. As you already know, exceeding manufacturer's specs reduces stability.

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Since this has been conclusively shown to not be an AutoGK problem, I am moving this to the PC HW/SW forum.

[LordTrace]

I don't know what its going to take to prove to you guys that my RAM is stable and has been fore more then a year (= thousands of CCE and XviD encodes) ... Never have time to run a full overnight memtest.

Anyways problems solved .. encoded 4 movies while i slept. So thats 5 done with no problems (with my "bad" RAM that "wasn't" working yesterday). *giggle*

My girlfriends comp is running DDR400 at 260MHz for like 1.5 years stable .. its is possible you know :P

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9531/sempron642600k8nsprojs3.th.png (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sempron642600k8nsprojs3.png)

[jeffy]

I don't know what its going to take to prove to you guys that my RAM is stable and has been fore more then a year (= thousands of CCE and XviD encodes) ... Never have time to run a full overnight memtest.

Anyways problems solved .. encoded 4 movies while i slept. So thats 5 done with no problems (with my "bad" RAM that "wasn't" working yesterday). *giggle*

My girlfriends comp is running DDR400 at 260MHz for like 1.5 years stable .. its is possible you know :P

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9531/sempron642600k8nsprojs3.th.png (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sempron642600k8nsprojs3.png)


Well, if it works for you stable... hats off :D
A64 Tweaker isn't BIOS only solution, but why not? 260MHz instead of 200 is pretty good... you don't know the make of the memory do you? *giggles*

[LordTrace]

Hers is an older version of this http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=BL6464Z402

Oh and A64 Tweaker is just used in the pics to show BIOS settings