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Computer crashPosted by Delphinus
I have a G4 PowerMac with OS X, the latest QT Pro, 1.6MgH processor, over 900 gigs of memory, three harddrives with at least 60 MB free space (including master), FCP 4.5 HD. Lately I am getting crashes when I am playing a FCP timeline (I think they are called kernals?), where the computer goes dim and a box comes up with something like "you must restart the computer" written in four languages. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have run DiskWarrior on all drives ... no difference.
Hi Mike:
Thanks for the input. Until recently, this has never been a problem. It happens not only when i try to play a timeline but it now occurs when I am trying to burn a DVD on Studio Pro and iDVD. Playing a single FCP timeline of 50 minnutes in length, it crashed five times. Does this info help? Thanks. Stan
How much Ram you got? Any stills in the timeline or is this all just DV? It may be that your G4 cant handle this timeline. Is this movie cuts only or heavily filtered? What about breaking it up into smaller sequences to see where it crashes?
Also, for the heck of it, trash your preferences and might as well trash all your render files and re-render. [www.lafcpug.org]
Mike:
I have over a terrabyte of ram. The FCP timeline is actually one continuous unbroken clip digitized from a DV tape with a variety of short titles laid over on V2. The crash during iDVD is only a 30-minute show. I'll go ahead and trash the preferences and see if that helps, then get back to you. Thanks. Stan
Are you getting a kernel Panic? if so, these things are usually more hardware related than software. My Quicksilver 2002 G4 with 1.5 GB RAM (which is the max you can have) plays Final Cut timelines all day long.
It sounds like this just started to happen on a system box that was working. Is that true? It could mean a memory module problem or some other hardware issue. Look around for the box of CD's you got when it shipped for the Hardware Test Suite CD and boot off it. This can help diagnose "kernel panics"
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