computer shutdown when encoding

[brian_au]

I have just brought a dvd burner and a dvd rom the burner is a btc dual +- and the rom is a samsung when i try to encode the dvd using shrink the computer shuts down just a it starts encoding ive tryed nero recode2 same thing happens ive been reading the forum no one seems to have the same problem can anone help? my computer is only 10 months old i have a pentium 4 2.40ghz 512ram geforce4 mx440

[Treebeard]

did you do a uninstall and reinstall the applications? is your memory bad? I had similar probs due to bad memory. if you uninstall make sure to clean out the registry also b/4 reinstalling.

[brian_au]

ive tryed to uninstall and reinstall even went and gave my computer a compleate format but still no luck it works when i do a copy at 100% compression but anything lower it shuts down

[Ripper2860]

Encoding is very CPU intensive and generates a high amount of CPU heat. If you have a CPU TEMP MONITOR/SHUTDOWN capability on BIOS, try disabling it and see what happens. BIOS maybe shutting the system down in response to a temp threshold. If so the temp threshold may be too low or the CPU temp is reallty too high and better cooling may be required.

A wild guess -- but worth a shot !!

[thayne]

Encoding is very CPU intensive and generates a high amount of CPU heat. If you have a CPU TEMP MONITOR/SHUTDOWN capability on BIOS, try disabling it and see what happens. BIOS maybe shutting the system down in response to a temp threshold. If so the temp threshold may be too low or the CPU temp is reallty too high and better cooling may be required.

A wild guess -- but worth a shot !!

I was thinking the same thing, but you better make sure your cpu fan is running before you do that.

[Ripper2860]

Yes -- although much less of an issue with a P4 thanks to built in THERMAL THROTTLING protection. The processor would merely slow down as opposed to melt-down.

[brian_au]

the bios temp is already disabled thanks for trying i have no idea hope someone can help.