Computer lock up during re-authoring

[pok3mas7er]

I'll start by saying that I have a 1900XP Athlon processor, 768MB of RAM, and a 120GB Maxtor hard drive that is not even half full. I have used DVD Decrypter to back up several movies and haven't had a problem. Recently though I have encounted some problems. When DVD Shrink goes through the process of backing up the video that I re-authored it will send my computer into a blue screen. I have had this problem before when running WAY too many things at one time on my computer but I have tried closing everything but DVD Shrink and still get the blue screen. I checked my task manager to see what's going on when it does this and noticed that my CPU usage will bounce around from about 100%-91%. Occasionally it will dip down as low as 60% but usually stays up there. This is with nothing else running on my computer but DVD Shrinks backing up process and windows. Is there a way I could combat this problem or is the only solution to simply get a new processor?

[UncasMS]

i doubt your cpu is to blame

- it may be a heat issue; use something like speedfan or everest to monitor the temps

- you might have to update/re-install chipsetdrivers

- did you change anything in your system recently (vga, drive, psu)?

[Chewy]

My athlon 1900(stepping model) was a hot running cpu. Check the cpu fan/heatsink for dirt/dust. Clean, leave case open, point fan into side,
shrink a movie and test.

[pok3mas7er]

HAHA yeah, i collect the little figurines.

I didn't think the system was really to blame because I can play the highly hardware demanding games such as Doom 3, Sims 2, and WOW without any problems like this. I don't think a movie should take up more CPU memory than those games.

I just recently blew the dust of everything. By recently I mean less than a week ago. The side is still open from me doing that. Maybe I'll get a small portable fan and put a bowl of ice behind it to blow cold air onto the chip. hehe.

I should check the chipset drivers. I don't think I reinstalled the updated ones since I reformatted.

Thnx

[LT. Columbo]

Maybe I'll get a small portable fan and put a bowl of ice behind it to blow cold air onto the chip. hehe.

don't know if your serious, but bad idea having a bowl of water around your pc! if the case is open and you have a fan blowing that is all you need;)

[Chewy]

pok3...,
Don't underestimate shrink's ability to bring a computer to it's knees.
I used it to check stability on a 45% overclock of an amd64/3000.
Games don't stress the cpu as much as the video card.
Shrink is cpu INTENSIVE


Unless you are using seperate hard drives for shrinking the decrypted files,
there's a lot of hard drive thrashing going on, presumably on the same cable.

[jm1647]

@pok3mas7er - you definitely have something crazy going on. I have half the power you have in your PC and I never get the BSOD using DVD Shrink or any other program so far.With shrink I will get 100% CPU usage, it seem to lock up but then comes back, but never a BSOD.

[dafaba]

Hey pok3, I recently had problems with my pc locking up durning the encoding process, http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=55863
The problem started to get worse and worse until I moved the operation to another pc. Then the pc that was having the problems started locking up agian, or getting that blue screen, or rebooting at all sorts of random times after the backup process was moved to the other pc. Removing one of the two 512 MB sticks of RAM seemed to stop the lockups and blue screens. But that leaves me with either bad memory or a bad MB. Read though my thread maybe it give you some ideas.
Good Luck.