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DVDShrink Kills my Computer
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linuxman
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3. April 2005 @ 08:23 |
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I am having a problem with DVDShrink killing my computer. With every title that I try to back up it goes into the encoding process and then either black screens my computer oor it just locks up to the point that I have to hard boot the machine.
I have a pentium 4 2.0GHZ machine with 256 megs of ram running windows xp pro Service pack 2. The master and slave hard drives are running DMA 5 on the primary IDE chanel and the DVD Burner is on the secondary channel running DMA 3.
Has anybody else encountered this problem and if so what was the fix?
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3. April 2005 @ 09:14 |
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is shrink the only thing that suffers from this ?
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3. April 2005 @ 10:16 |
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linuxman
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6. April 2005 @ 21:26 |
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Well the problem seems to be somthing other than DVDShrink. My machine is now just quitting at random times. Must be the processor, as I have changed out the memory and the hard drive and the dvd drives. It is perplexing..
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6. April 2005 @ 22:32 |
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@linuxman - It could be (just) heat related, like a poorly fitted heatsink or insufficient heatsink. When i bought my AMD cpu i was concerned about heat as i'd researched how hot these babies run. I had problems where my PC would beep & flash like mad after about a minute of switch-on (case has fandangled sensors & LED's) - turned out the heatsink/fan just couldn't cut it. (Couldn't tell by looking at it, massive thing. I bought a heatsink rated for a slightly higher cpu and voila. Could be stuff like airflow too but i wouldn't get bogged down with that, i'd investigate the heatsink first. You should see how little airflow there is in my tiny case, and it's wedged up the corner of my boat... http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/171319 bottom of page 1
ps you can download something called memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com) in case you double check that memory you swapped out. Not sure of it's up to date enough, but there are probably other programs like it..
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calhounm
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6. April 2005 @ 22:58 |
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you can usually go to your motherboard manufacturer and find a utility program that will act like a benchmark giving you up to date info on cpu memory and temperature. so check that out and have it running while you run shrink or whatever else locks it up and post what you see
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squizzle
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7. April 2005 @ 13:03 |
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creaky you live on a boat?
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
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7. April 2005 @ 13:29 |
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yup..
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7. April 2005 @ 14:45 |
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Creaky, you da man! Must be nice to live on a boat!
Linuxman, I had issues like you were having when I first started using dvd shrink. I ended up putting in a new heatsink fan,a blower, and an extra 120 mm fan on the back of my tower. That took care of most of my problems. Unfortunantly a powersurge started the whole process over again and a new mobo took care of that.
You may also try a registry cleaner program for errors. I use registry mechanic.I'm sure there are better ones out there-I'm still looking.
I hope this may help you out some and good luck.
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7. April 2005 @ 22:29 |
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yer, it is nice living off dry land. House prices are/were criminal. I've still got my massive server tower - Supermicro SC-750A (used to have 14fans in that, used to sound like a jumpjet - now that would be a powersurge) at back of boat but it's only there to keep the laundry off the floor!
My sexy little pc only has a 192W PSU, bless him!
@linuxman - don't forget to come back and update when ya sort it...
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Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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squizzle
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8. April 2005 @ 07:27 |
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so creaky do you like cruise around the world? I've always dreamed of doing that on a boat. Do lots of fishin'...nice and relaxing.
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
Bbmayo's guides------>http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html
My ever-growing movie collection------>http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/squizzle
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8. April 2005 @ 08:24 |
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nah, have never taken it far!. i live in a marina and only ever get chance to take it a few miles up river once in a while (these boats only do 5miles an hour); but that's good enough for me, it's more about enjoying the weather than using the boat, for me. plus there's a pub right next door and in the summer, well need i say more about eye candy !; oh and beer too.. :)
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squizzle
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8. April 2005 @ 19:38 |
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what city do you live in?
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
Bbmayo's guides------>http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html
My ever-growing movie collection------>http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/squizzle
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9. April 2005 @ 01:14 |
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i'm in Bedford, and boy it's cold today.. and very choppy on the water today
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angryone
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10. April 2005 @ 16:34 |
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I am also having problems with shrink. Have had it for many months with no problems, then suddenly it started closing and doing a minidump before it finished. Have formatted computer a few times and also got rid of service pack 2. Worked great for a few more days then started again. I am at aloss as what to do
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squizzle
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11. April 2005 @ 07:38 |
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What do you mean by a "minidump"? Have you tried to defrag the hard drive? Maybe the packets aren't being written consecutively. Are there other programs running? Antivirus? Have you checked for viruses? Spyware? Ad-ware?
Creaky, isn't Bedford in connecticut or something?
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
Bbmayo's guides------>http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html
My ever-growing movie collection------>http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/squizzle
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11. April 2005 @ 08:37 |
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Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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angryone
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12. April 2005 @ 15:26 |
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I have deleted Nero (i had a trial version) and all components of shrink. Got hold of a registered version of Nero then reloaded shrink and all seems to be going well (just hope it keeps going). Thanks all for the help
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squizzle
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12. April 2005 @ 19:12 |
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glad you got it sorted out.
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
Bbmayo's guides------>http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html
My ever-growing movie collection------>http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/squizzle
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angryone
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14. April 2005 @ 21:20 |
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well i thought it was sorted but i spoke to soon. does anyone know of another program which will fit a movie onto one disk and also get past the protection. i can burn with Nero if there's no protection.
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squizzle
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14. April 2005 @ 22:22 |
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http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/
Have a look at some guides and find one that looks like something you'd like. There should be links to the software in the guides. If not there's always Google.
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
Bbmayo's guides------>http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html
My ever-growing movie collection------>http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/squizzle
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