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| Thread ID: 59253 | 2005-06-26 00:42:00 | PC freezes while encoding avi's to mpeg | Term_X (560) | Press F1 |
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| 367107 | 2005-06-26 00:42:00 | Hi Folks :-) lately ive been having the problem of my pc freezing whenever im encoding from avi to mpeg. Now this happensregardless of what encoding program im using to do this. It can freeze at 95% or it can happen at 5%. Never happens in the same place. Just recently reinstalled and still doing the same thing. Codecs are fine. Lots of HDD space also and also encode the result files to another HDD. pc specs are **amd 2500xp+ (barton) running at 3200xp+ (have increased the fsb to 200 mhz in the bios) **2 x 256 megs of ddr400 ram (in dual prochannel mode also) **gigabyte nforce 2 motherboard (gn400-l) **windows xp pro sp2. ive scoured the net looking for a solution and come across this and its exactly the same problem as mine, but i cant understand the solution by someone else replying to that person and want to follow the same solution but need a step by step explanation please :-) heres the original post (hope this is fine to copy and paste its from another question/answer forum) ----> Hello Seen I've been converting mpg to avi's again (for the last two weeks) my pc has been resetting itself or freezing. To cut a long story short I've narrowed it down to when I'm using any video converter prog to convert mpg to avi. My cpu temp is fine, I have 2800+ AMD, 1GB corsair memory (memtested ok), dfi lanparty NFII Ultra B ((Nvidia nForce Ultra 400), Nvida geforce FX 5700LE (256mb) and creative Audigy 2. Any ideas why this could be happening or how it can be resolved? Please please please help, driving my crazy and its not doing my hd's any good with such hard resets.<----- and heres the solution from someone else ---> Your CPU runs 166FSB (333DDR). I'll bet your memory is running asynchronously at 400DDR. Check your memory timings in BIOS and ensure they are set to SPD. Then, set memory to run synchronously with your FSB at 333DDR (PC2700 speed). Try it at SPD first, then once you confirm stability, you can become more aggressive with the memory timings at the lower, synchronous memory speed. But anyway, try the memory trick (the extra memory bandwidth is redundant, because with memory operation in excess of the FSB speed the potential speed gains are negated by the extra latency involved in asynchronous operation). This trick has fixed many unstable dual-channel PCs (and actually speeded them up :^) <--------- Can someone please explain how to do the above but in plain english and step by step (this problem has been driving me nuts!) Cheers Term X |
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| 367108 | 2005-06-26 01:00:00 | first thing to do is undo your overclocking, | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 367109 | 2005-06-26 03:22:00 | The manufacturer says your CPU is a "2500". You have decided that it is a "3200". Your results show that it can nearly run at that speed. The manufacturer guarantees that it will work at the rated speed. They are much more likely to be correct. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
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