bluescreen of death while rendering to mpg2 ???

[Red96TA]

I've been trying to render a project in Vegas5, but every time I try, Windows XP gives me a bluescreen of death after about 2 minutes.

Now in my experience, XP isn't supposed to bluescreen at all unless it's a SERIOUS problem...any ideas?

The only thing I can relate this problem to is a bad cpu fan that I replaced a month ago for freezing up. The repair guy said that it didn't look like there was damage to the cpu....what do you think?

Here's what I run:
Win XP SP2
MSI K7N2 mobo
AMD Athlon XP2600+
768mb Ram
PowMax 480w PSU
Nvidia 5600FX 256mb
Audigy 5.1
200gb/80gb HDD's
Pioneer 105 & 108
etc.

[Red96TA]

Figuring it was the cpu temps getting out of hand, I've installed Motherboard Monitor and during encoding, the temp only rises from about 55c to 58c...well within spec for the cpu, no?

UPDATE: ran memtest and it says that memory is fine...

UPDATE II: the device manager shows that I have a SM Bus Controller that doesn't have the right drivers installed. Anybody know if that could be my problem? Where would I get them?

[Red96TA]

under the system's device manager, I found something that wasn't working properly, or that the drivers couldn't be found (SM Bus Controller). I inserted the mainboard's driver cd into a drive and clicked 'update drivers' and told it to look in the optical drive.

The other thing was that I was having the rendering multiplex the video and audio...in the past, I've run into problems multiplexing through VV, so I usually send them out as elementary streams and let DVD-Lab do all the tough stuff

I guess PROBLEM FIXED is the words of the day.

[Capmaster]

Good news. BTW that temp seemed perfectly normal so I don't think you have heat issues.