TMPEGEnc reboots my computer

[welsungo]

Hi. I'm a user of TMPEGEnc from a year ago, it has gone right until yesterday. Now, when I try to make a VCD from a DivX, or simple uncrompressed avi file, when it begins the conversion, the pc reboots!!!! ¿what is happenig here? Is it posible that a DivX video contains virus inside?
The only change in my computer I've done was last week when I changed my micro from Duron700 to Duron1300. But in this week i've converted several DivX files to VCD files.

Thank You

[MadeInJapan]

Depending on the encoding of the DiVX AVI file I load into TMPGen, it crashes and shuts itself down but won't reboot my computer. I'm using Windows 2000 Pro. Maybe we're dealing with the same issue if you are using Win9x OS. In the end, I used VirtualDub and changed some of the characteristics of the AVI file and that seemed to clear up my problems. Specifically, I was having very jerky audio so I extracted the audio and made it into a PCM WAVE and the WAVE file was larger than the video file (imagine that) and when I loaded these files as separate video and audio files, TMPG would crash. Finally, I extracted audio and converted it to an MP3 file and re-encoded with TMPG and everything was fine and TMPG did not crash. In my case, the audio file being larger than the video file may have been the problem. Are you doing the same thing?

[Conquest10]

the same thing happened to me last month. i setup tmpgenc to encode while i sleep. i turned off the monitor and went to bed. as i soon as i lied down, i heard my computer rebooting. i went right over to it and it was rebooting as if i had gone to start>shutdown>restart. its only happened that once so i don't know what caused it cuz i restarted that encode as soon as it reboot and it didn't do that again.

[Mr Grumpy]

I had the same problem with both TMPG and CCE.

Turned out to be faulty RAM!!!

Download some of the memory testers (e.g. MEMTEST) and leave it running for a few hours.

You mention swapping CPUs - maybe a DIMM got dislodged slightly?

[Heavensent]

probably the RAM.
either you dont have much of it, or its defected.

use a memory tester as someone sujested earlier.