PC Reboots When Encoding

Cyclone

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Have a huge problem with my pc.

No matter what software I use for encoding, after a random time my pc crashes. I either get a blue screen saying "The system encountered an uncorrectable hardware error" or it simply reboots with no reason why.

All my drivers are up to date ie, chipset, gfx, audio, directx etc and I only get this problem when encoding. Normal use of playing games and watching movies its fine :confused:

Convertxtodvd, AutoGK, Pinnacle Studio are the software used and it crashes within a few seconds or several minutes with all of them. BUT it has converted some media with no problems at all which makes me think it is software side of things and not hardware.

Looking into Event viewer gives me lots of errors but neither of them make sence, even after Googling. This is what I had after last crash

Anyone got any ideas before I backup and format :(:(

Thanks!!!!
 
Sounds like a RAM problem. Download and burn a memtest cd and run the for a couple of passes. If it fails remove all memory sticks and test individually. Are you overclocking anything?
 
Yep on Windows 7 64 bit and cpu is overclocked from 2.4 to 3.0ghz, but system isnt over heating.

Regarding the RAM, when I upped the fsb (i think it was) to overclock the cpu i didnt change any settings for the ram.
 
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When i had XP i used to enable BSOD on powerdown which showed me the error code etc.

No idea if win7 has this feature though not looked in to it

id go with memtest first
 
im doing memtest now, ill leave it for a few hours and see what happens. The overclock was done about 6 months ago and had no problems til recently (and i do lots of encoding).

cheers guys :)
 
Ok, I left the memtest running for a while and had no errors after 5 passes.

Googled an error msg this morning and found that a number of items in 'control panel/programs and features/turn windows features on or off' were off so ive turned all of them on (maybe a bad mistake). Did a bit of encoding for 15 minutes and had no errors at all in event viewer. So im hoping this was the problem after all (touch wood).

Ill do some more tests etc when I get up this afternoon and hopefully the pc will be ok. :)
 
Turning windows features on seems to have done the trick. Encoded a video with no problems at all, and nothing written in the event viewer.

Im a happy bunny!!! :)

Cheers for the help guys!!
 
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