TMPGEnc reboots my computer -- Please Help!

[Hoagie]

ARGH! This is driving me insane!

I have been trying to encode a video clip for days now, but my computer keeps rebooting! I've run into this before but have always been able to fix it (or maybe I was just getting lucky the second time around), not this time though.

I am:

- Ripping with SmartRipper
- Setting up DVD2AVI project
- Loading into TMPGEnc with settings I have used 100x in the past with no problems (to produce MPEG2)
- Hit start and at sometime during the encode my computer reboots!

Anyone have any ideas as to why TMPGEnc would be rebooting my computer? I am running a 800MHz Athlon w/ 256 Megs or RAM.

Thanks for any help!

Hoag

[tiki4]

Which OS?

Make sure you have enough space free on the drive where your Windows is installed as TMPGEnc uses lots of temp space.

Anyway, that doesn't sound good at all.

tiki4

[Hoagie]

It's a Windows 2000 machine. Overall, there is plenty of space -- but I will make sure that Windows is not having to resize things during the encode. I don't think this is the problem, since its worked for over a year without a problem, but I hadn't thought about that one. Something is obviously going screwy. :(

I've actually been successful in encoding this "problem sequence" a few times, but I've had to try again for various reasons. I still reboot much more often that I am successful on this one video clip (others encode without a problem). Just to piss me off more, my computer decided to freeze last night... bastard computer.

Thanks for the suggestion -- I'll double check on the swap space!!

Hoag

[tiki4]

No really,

my first thought was: this is a hardware issue.

I've been running various builds of TMPGEnc for hours and hours over at least the last year and it never rebooted my machine (Athlon XP 1600+, Win2K SP2).

I hope you can fix this (try to reinstall your OS, sometimes this is the only 'software' solution).

Good luck!

tiki4

[Arky]

Personally, I'm inclined to think it's a hardware issue, too.

Are you sure your CPU isn't overheating and powering down, what with all this number-crunching (after all, MPEG encoding is about as intense as it gets, save for 3d rendering)..??

Are you overclocking?

Have you got decent cooling?

Have you got a decent power supply?

I know you said you've managed to get around this before, but the point is, that even with earlier versions, you DID, nevertheless, experience this issue - this again points (slightly) away from software as the most probable cause...


Arky ;o)

[Hoagie]

The CPU is plenty cool and is not overclocked. It has happened in the past, but I could "fix" it by simply ripping the video again and running it through D2A again -- I always figured it was an odd glitch in one of those steps that TMPGEnc barfed on, since doing it again seemed to fix it.

I'm not adverse to the fact that it might be hardware, I'm just not sure what it could be since I've never had this much trouble encoding a project. I had both hard drives next to eachother which caused a lot of heat, but I seperated them and they are now cool to the touch -- but it still rebooted. :(

The computer is a "raw" Windows 2000 install, so maybe updating it would help... but I'm afraid to do that for other reasons -- I had trouble with other software with SP2. Oh!! So many things that it could be...

Hopefully I will be able to get through my current project. If TMPGEnc continue to give me trouble on the next project I'll know something is up with the computer. If not, maybe I got a funky master disk this time around.

Thanks for the tips and pointers. I'll give a yell if I figure out what it is!

Hoag

[chainsaw135]

first thing i would try is updating your OS... that should be something you do right away. Now if that dosen't help you can try prime95 torture test... i believe thats what its called...this will test your system should push it 2 the point that if you are having some type of hardware issue it should catch that.

[Hoagie]

Originally posted by chainsaw135
first thing i would try is updating your OS... that should be something you do right away.

Normally I would agree... but when I did that the first time, I broke ReelDVD. When I asked Daikan (still seperate from Sonic at the time) about it they told me not to install the service pack that was out at the time, SP1 I believe.

I've updated ReelDVD since then and I am sure they fixed it, but I don't want to find out if I don't have to. ;)

I'll check out that benchmark program you mentioned. Do you have a link handy? (I can use a search engine too, but thought I'd ask)

Thanks!!

Hoag

[Arky]

SP1 is ok, just don't let SP2 anywhere near your system. I can't actually remember WHY, to tell you the truth, but I am a Win2k user myself, and I learnt more than a year ago that SP2 causes more problems than it solves, so I've just stuck by that ever since. In fact I rarely even update to SP1, and I have no issues with my Video work...



Arky ;o)