Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Major Problem
by Aaron Freschi
on
Jul 2, 2009 at 7:57:18 am
Alright, before I give you my problem, let me supply you with my pc specs:
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU
6420 @ 2.13GHz
2.0 GB RAM
49/140 GB Hard Drive
Ok now to my problem. Today I finished a 4 minute long video. I used the Adobe Media Encoder to render my files and when it was at about 74% complete, my entire system/computer shut down. This has never happened to me before and I have rendered files of even larger length and size and there has never been any problem. I tried multiple times with multiple different file types and still, it shuts down. There are no special effects, no titles, no anything. Just pure video. The third time I rebooted my system and tried rendering my video, I opened up the task manager and noticed that before the rendering, my CPU Usage was at an average of about 5%. I started the rendering process and that 5% shot all the way up to 100% and stayed that way until my computer shut off. By this point I was out of my mind. I installed spyware removers, installed registry cleaners, defragmented, cleaned up my disc, turned off my virus software, etc etc etc. Still, nothing. Keep in mind, this is NOT an overheating issue. My computer is doing just fine with heat. Finally after about the 10th time I gave up and came here. Any help?
Re: Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Major Problem by Vince Becquiot on Jul 2, 2009 at 3:37:39 pm
Is this a custom built machine?
I would look into CPU overheating as the very likely issue, especially during CPU intensive work...
Get yourself a copy of Realtemp and watch it while rendering.
If that's the problem, you'll probably need to check the CPU fan first, if that's working, dust off everything else, and possibly remove the fan, CPU, clean the top and re-apply some thermal paste (Arctic silver is what we use)
Next would be the GPU and RAM, but much less likely.
And then there's always those guys at the Geek Squad :-)
