4 Replies Latest reply: Nov 4, 2011 4:36 PM by wonderspark RSS

    Bad luck with my new system

    Frederic Segard Community Member

      I got my new system last week. Fast little devil. But... it failed on me a couple of times, and crashed and corrupted my project file and lost 9 hours of work!

       

      What I have: An Asus Maximus IV Etreme-Z with a 2600K overclocked at 4.6GHz, cooled with an Antec Kuhler 920, 16GB of Corsair RAM, 240GB Corsair SSD, Areca 1880ix-16 with 12x 500GB WD RE4, Asus Matrix 580GTX, BlackMagic Decklink Extreme 3D+ and a firewire card. All powered by an 1200W gold psu from corsair. The system runs cool with all the fans and cooling. It is well designed as a system. But it falls short on issues with CS5.5

       

      A simple task. Taking a picture, well under the 16MP range, and keyframing it to move. This simple and easy task makes the PPro crash with an error code saying: Your hardware configuration does not meet minimum specifications needed to run the application -- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3008 Kind of odd, seeing that my system is pretty beefed up. But I fear that the issue we discussed in another thread, the PCI lane count on SandyBridge vs. X58, might be what is at fault, considering all the cards I have loaded on my PCIe bus. My computer is in shop now. Tomorrow, I'll hopefully have a clearer picture.

       

      After having so many errors, I decided to remove the BMD card, and ever since, no issues with the above message. But after working long hours, one Sunday night (Monday 2AM), my system crashed with a Blue Screen of Death a few seconds after saving my file. Upon restart, I could not load my project anymore because it was corrupt. So I checked on the auto save files, only to find out, the autosave stopped autosaving for the last 8 or so hours. I checked the settings, and it was set for every 20 minutes. My deadline was for Monday morning. Did not sleep that night... had to recreate what I lost. I wanted to scream!


      Arghhh! What bad first experience. Any thoughts?

        • 1. Re: Bad luck with my new system
          John T Smith CommunityMVP

          What happens if you go back to a stock speed instead of overclocking?

          • 2. Re: Bad luck with my new system
            Frederic Segard Community Member

            That was part of the plan upon receiving back my computer.  I was tested stable at 4.6.... but I'm starting to have my doubts.

            • 3. Re: Bad luck with my new system
              Alan Craven Community Member

              Frederic,

               

              Autosave has always been unreliable for me, for the last three versions of Premiere, at least.  It works fine for days, then for no obvious reason just stops. 

               

              I tend to check for autosaved versions after editing for a while and if there are none, a Save project, turn off Autosave, Save project, turn on Autosave, Save project restores its operation for that editing session, at least.

              • 4. Re: Bad luck with my new system
                wonderspark Community Member

                That's a bummer. Your system sounds really nice when it all works, though!

                 

                I've just had my first problem with Premiere CS5 on my system in many months. Editing a feature film shot on 5DMkII, 7D and D7000, and the entire system got real sluggish. At first, rebooting seemed to fix. I was about to up my RAM from 16GB to 32GB, when I remembered to try holding shift+alt when launching Pr to erase the preference file. That solved it completely for me, so I can save my RAM money for later.

                 

                I've also found Pr isn't that swell with lots of stills, whereas AE is amazing. I had a project using ~70,000 stills (16.2 megapixel each) in a timelapse, panning and zooming around the entire array of photos. Pr choked when the number of stills reached 4-5 thousand, but After Effects handled all 70,000 with no problems. Maybe worth trying your effect in AE instead.

                 

                Never had the autosave issue. That really is a drag. Anyway, hope you sort it out!