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Expert: Brian Benosky Date: 6/25/2008 Subject: Computer shuts down while converting Video to DVD
Question Hello Brian,
I have a comp running on a Core2Duo 2.66 GHZ chip with 2 GB DDR2 RAM on a Biotech motherboard with integrated Nvidia 7050/610i graphics processor. I was using an older motherboard with 1 GB of DDR1 RAM and have changed over to the new MB on Friday 20th June 2008. I seem to have a problem with converting video files. I use TMPGEnc DVD Author 3.0 to convert my AVI files to DVD. The problem started about a month ago when my computer started shutting down in the middle of the conversion process. So i assumed that the RAM had something to do with it and upgraded my RAM from the 512mb that i had to 1 GB. Inspite of that my problems continued. So i then decided to change the whole motherboard(the main reason being DDR1 was getting expensive and i anyways wanted to upgrade to DDR2 for faster processing). As mentioned above i had the changes done on Friday and reinstalled the OS (XP Pro). Now after doing all this i expected that i would have no problems for sometime at least, but the moment i started converting Video using TMPGEnc,(I tried with a couple of other software's like IMTOO and DVDFab, and same result) the same problems started all over again. It would process the video for about 50 minutes and then abruptly shutdown. It's starting to get more and more frustrating as i spend 1 hour or more for the video to process and then ..boom.. all the work is lost. I've set the CPU usage to 100% including overclock and still the same problem. to add to that the OS takes about 4 minutes (or more) to load on startup and i know it should not take as long... so i'm worried that a faulty OS installation might be the problem.. would appreciate it if you could help me out.
Thanks,
Linden
Answer Hi Linden
Assuming that you've checked for overheating and have updated drivers, there are still a few things to look in to. What size hard drive is it, and is it the same one from the old system? Also, you may want to try a dedicated graphics card, rather than the onboard processor. Converting video is a very intensive task. Onboard is great for web surfing and playing older games, but not for any type of video processing. Let me know your thoughts on these suggestions.
