Take the Good with the Bad

[mill]

Well i was wandering if i should take the good with the bad with Dvd Shrink. I been getting the blue screen alot since i been using shrink, windows stop errors , and there never the same but it dumps memory every time and then reboots. Its not all the time just maybe 10 or 15% of the time . Im stumped, so what i did was a complete recovery, from scratch, got everthing loaded execpt Shrink, so far no blue screens. Does it harm the PC, at all when a person gets those stop errors??If not i think i reinstall and see what happens.

[Ducati996]

No real harm per say but could be a bit hard on ur disk drive. I would try and find out why you are gettting bluescreens from Shrink..


Will G.

[Chewy]

Shrink is just testing your computer for problems. Like a burn in benchmark.

[cynthia]

Your fan is working?

[mill]

Fan's are working.

[anonymez]

and this happens ONLY with shrink? what about other encoding/cpu intensive apps?

blue screen can be caused by many, many things, but might be a good idea to download & install 'everest', and monitor your cpu temps while shrinking, or at full load

during which part of the process does this happen? during burning? transcoding?

what are your pc's specs?

in answer to your question, blue screens are never a good sign, data loss is possible.

[mill]

Hey Anonymez, its a Hp pavilion230n 2800+ 960mb ram 120gig hd, just did a complete restore, not fun at all. I had Shrink installed about a year or two ago when i first started backing up my movies,The blue screens started happenning for the first time then. So i went to using dvd2one, and uninstalled Shrink, no more blue screens after that. Then this new copy protection started giving me problems with my movies and i seen pcgedit and the plugin, so i started using Shrink again and the blue screens came back? It doesnt do it while its shrinking, it happens alot if im trying to install a still, or somtimes it happens as soon as i hit open. And other times it even does it if im not in Shrink. Got me ,I really like the program ,but it dont like me.

PS got the 3800 2x yesterday ,im a little worried about installing shrink in it, sure dont want that to happen to that one.

Happy Holidays everone

[Chewy]

mill,
your ram(960 mb, wasn't all installed by HP?)?

we need to see it's specs with everest home edition

We have a good chance of locating the problem if you added ram
to the machine.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

under computer in overclock there's a screen that shows what your ram
spd(specs) are and another where it shows what bios is trying to run it at

[mill]

Hope this is what you needed Chewy.

[Chewy]

the top 1/3 of what I wanted, let's just copy and paste this part too.

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset VIA Apollo KT880
Memory Timings 2-2-2-6 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR) 2T

SPD Memory Modules:
DIMM2 256 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (2.0-2-2-5 @ 166 MHz)
DIMM4 256 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (2.0-2-2-5 @ 166 MHz)

BIOS Properties:
System BIOS Date 09/07/04
Video BIOS Date 10/18/04
DMI BIOS Version 080011

nvidia chipset(good we are getting somewhere)

[mill]

Field Value
CPU Properties
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP 2800+
CPU Alias Barton
CPU Stepping A2
CPUID CPU Name AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
CPUID Revision 000006A0h

CPU Speed
CPU Clock 2079.23 MHz
CPU Multiplier 12.5x
CPU FSB 166.34 MHz
Memory Bus 166.34 MHz

CPU Cache
L1 Code Cache 64 KB
L1 Data Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID Explorer$1003.021$08/31/2004-15:08:35$nFORCE
Motherboard Name Asus A7N8X-LA (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394)

Chipset Properties
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce2 IGP
Memory Timings 2.5-3-3-7 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR) 1T

SPD Memory Modules
DIMM1: Kingston K 512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz)
DIMM2: Kingston K 512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM (2.5-3-3-7 @ 166 MHz) (2.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz)

BIOS Properties
System BIOS Date 08/31/04
Video BIOS Date 01/08/03
DMI BIOS Version 3.21

Graphics Processor Properties
Video Adapter nVIDIA nForce2 Integrated GeForce4 MX
GPU Code Name Crush17 (AGP 4x 10DE / 01F0, Rev A3)
GPU Clock 199 MHz
Memory Clock 50 MHz

sorry it took so long Chewy

[Chewy]

that's fine I was giving the chewy crash course to eldest daughter
in dvd scanning and burning, wookie thing!
Well your memory looks fine, running right settings.
Awfully lame for that motherboard tho. I might reduce the command rate to
T2 if we don't find something obvious.
Bios might be latest.
What are your dma settings for drives and are you using nvidia ide drivers or MS ones?

[anonymez]

ok so its not an overheating problem.

random BSODs were a sign my graphics card was dying. considering the age of that card, couldn't hurt to use the onboard graphics for a litle while & see how it goes (go to the bios, choose onboard as display, take out the graphics card). process of elimination.

make sure you have updated bios & drivers

[blutach]

that's fine I was giving the chewy crash course to eldest daughter in dvd scanning and burning, wookie thing!

Never seen a female wookie before. Spose they gotta exist.

Regards

[Chewy]

I think the onboard is his only video, if he has an extra card then
his mobo is still sharing 64 megs of ram.

I am wondering about his drivers too.
that 50mghz video memory is funky