Bluescreen STOP error: XP and Sony Vegas

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escapetomsfate

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Hey everyone, I'm new here.

My problem is this: Whenever I render a video in Sony Vegas 8c, I get a STOP error (or more commonly known as "The bluescreen of death" ;)) about 30% through. The error message lists no driver or filename - just "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer".

The STOP error code given is 0x0000008E.

Once it did give me DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, but I can't remember if it gave me a filename.

I've had a poke around inside my PC, everything seems to be connected OK. I've never had a bluescreen on this PC (that I can remember).

Specs:

Gigabye GA-M56S-S3 motherboard (nVidia chipset)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 4870 2GB
3.5 GB RAM
500 GB Maxtor HDD (only 93GB used)
A USB PCI board
3.1 GHz dual core AMD athlon 3000+

I've looked at the forum rules, please correct me if I've posted in the wrong place / done anything wrong.

Thanks in advance for answering!

ETF
 
Welcome to HWF... hope you have a nice stay.

Well.... BSOD, what can be said which has not been said already? :doh:
Even Microsoft will not give you a definitive answer and the reason is that it is near impossible to say. With people bunging components into cases themselves, the number of software and hardware combinations which can bring about stop messages is at best guessable...

Course of action -
Personally I would start with testing the RAM. If you are using more than one module, take all but one module and test with Memtest for a few hours at least. If the module produces even one error it can be the cause. If it does not then move on to the next module. If all modules test OK, try re-installing drivers, if the problem still persists try and un-install the program which seems to bring about the stop messages. See how the PC behaves then.

For information about the stop messages, simply Google... there is loads of information out there...
 
Thanks for the reply sabashuali, it wasn't my memory.

Turns out my UAA high definition audio was on the same IRQ channel as my PCI controller. I disabled the audio, and my video rendered fine!

There were two high definition audio devices, both of which were conflicting with something else. Now I'm going to have to reinstall the audio drivers to the right channel <_<
 
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