dogwalker

I'm not sure whether to post this on the Drivers (since I have an X1950XT) or motherboard (since I wonder if my ECS PT890T-A is the issue). I've struggled with fixing this problem for weeks, finally resorting to reinstalling Windows this weekend, but still have the problem.

My son recently got me interested in video editing - in my case, it's editing our Hi8 home movies and putting them on dvd, but hopefully with a little flair.

So, I bought Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum, and when it works, I love it. Unfortunately, it frequently completely locks up my computer. If it would simply lock the application, I could handle that, but this really bothers me.

Trying to fix this, I've swapped hard drives (went from two PATA to two SATA), removed my gigabit NIC and opted for onboard LAN, have uninstalled applications, and finally reformatted.

Oh, and I installed VMS on a second computer in my study, and it works fine on that one. Unfortunately, my sons usually have it occupied, and it's not as beefy anyway. I'd really rather have this running on my personal computer.

No other applications lock up my computer, but then again, since upgrading to this computer, I haven't done much (gave my previous one to the boys) other than games and photo editing.

I have the 7.9 Catalyst drivers. I can't help but wonder if my motherboard is a piece of junk. Even though I've had ECS mobos in the past (K7S5A's) with no problems, I read so frequently that ECS mobos are no good.

OTOH, I've also read that lots of people have problems with the X1950XT in various situations.

Today, though, I'm going to remove the Audigy card, and that's the last card I have, other than the video card.

FWIW, I do get weird messages in Event Viewer for ATI, and I have googled for them, but haven't found anything consistent.



Under ACEEventLog

0000000001: 2007-09-23 11:05:58:828 Exception <atixcode.dll>: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {981145A7-E08E-48F3-A1C4-52C28BCAAAF9} failed due to the following error: 80040154.

Exception Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.TransCode.Graphics.Shared.TC_Co mponent::CheckTrancodeComObject processID:02792 threadIDCCCThreadNew:Wizard) domainNameccc.exe ) assemblyNameCLI.Aspect.TransCode.Graphics.Shared , Version=2.0.2756.30593, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)

and

0000000001: 2007-09-20 23:03:20:171 Failed to merge manifest file: C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\skins\ccc-skins.xml with exception: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\skins\ccc-skins.xml'.

Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Foundation.MergeManifest::ReadManifest processID:01804 threadID ) domainNameccc.exe ) assemblyNameCLI.Foundation.XManifest, Version=2.0.2756.30635, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)

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Motherboard ECS PT890T-A
CPU Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo
Graphics ATI Radeon X1950XT
Memory 2GB
Monitor Dell 2407FPW
Sound Creative Audigy Gamer
Hard drives WD 250GB SATA, Seagate 500GB SATA
Power Supply Antec 450w (stock Sonata 2 psu)
Case Antec Sonata 2
Input devices Saitek Eclipse USB Keyboard, Logitech M510 USB mouse
OS Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2