First the paticulars of my system: It's a HP Pavalion zv5000 laptop computer. Pentium 4 3.00 GHZ 512 Megs of Ram (384 Megs of Ram after sharing with the video card) 80 Gig hard drive (around 40 gigs free) ATI video card Using DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter, Nero When backing up some DVDs, my computer will shut down. No errors. No warnings. Just shuts down. Doesn't do it all of the time. Currently 25% of the time (or so). But it shuts down on the same DVD (ie: Put DVD 1 in, it'll back upfine. DVD 2 will shut down. Possibly DVD 3 and 4 will back up, put DVD 2 back in and it'll shut down again). I've tried running the dvd's through DVD Decrypter first, then backing up from the files on the hard drive. It'll do the same thing. I've updated my bios and video card drivers (after this started happening). Ran a full Windows Update. Still doing the same thing. Uninstalled DVD Shrink 3.2, reinstalled and still get the same thing. Took three of the DVD's that wouldn't work to a friends house. They all backed up fine. I've turned off the Automatically Restart feature in the Advanced section and the computer still shuts down. Not having any other problems. Can let the computer run for days with no problems, until I start backing up certain DVDs. It shuts down after I click on BACK UP, and then not until it gets about half way through. Different places each time. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
not sure but maybe your p.c. is overheating during compression during hard transcoding higher or lower bitrates may have different effects on your processor try using less compression or using an encoder (as opposed to transcoder) on harder titles you may try out dvd-rb there is a lot of info here on this program incase you run into troubles my two cents peace
MrHead, Welcome to the forum. This is the 2nd HP Pavillion question I have answered tonight and both computer are shutting off. Here is what I answered in the other. 1. D/L Regseeker(free) and clean the registry as conflicts there will cause these types of problems. 2. Verify all of the cables are seated properly 3. Verify the ram is seated properly 4. Verify all of the fans are operating while you have the case open 5. After doing the above below you will find a program that I want you to do. If you pass that test then your computer should have no problems burning a DVD. If you fail then send it back to HP and have them fix the problem. Read the instructions and good luck http://www.memtest86.com/
Great post Car.Mike! Although, if you want to do a quick "heat" test. Take the side off your case. Put a fan (can you a small "box" fan or a oscillating fan) in front of the side. After that, start up DVD Shrink and continue as you normally would. See if it shuts down after that. (Might even have to take both sides off the case.) Please report back here if that fixed the shutting down problem. You can also go here for other possible solutions: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45726
Thanks for the suggestion jmet, but I am on a lap top. I'm about ready to run the Ramtest (already ran the registry cleaner). I'll post on whether this fixes my problem or not... But no matter what, thanks for your suggestions....
I apologize MrHead. I did not even see in your initial post that you were on a laptop. I had a brainfart! Please excuse me.
Greetings friends. I ran the reg cleaner. I ran the Ram tester (it ran 50 times with no errors). Everything is seated firmly within my lap top. Any other questions or Gurus of DVDShrink? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. 8)
Video encoding/transcoding is a very cpu intensive process and builds a lot of heat. When I encode with rb/cce my cpu is at 100% of it's resources. The problem you are having is common with laptops. Try setting your laptop on an a/c duct while transcoding with shrink. If that solves the problem you can get a laptop cooling pad from several locations. Here's some examples. http://www.coolerguys.com/noco.html Mort
As Mort81 states a cooling pad will help greatly in the overheating department. My laptop has the same problem and I purchased the pad with the fan in it, it plugs into a USB port and it has improved the overheating problem greatly. You can also purchase these now from Best Buy and Costco for about 50.00.
arniebear, Give me some of all that money you have. You've got too much. Cooler guys have them from $11 to $42. They have awsome prices on certain items like cooling accessories and round IDE/ATA 133 cables. Even better than newegg. Mort
See, you could have got the $11 cooling pad from coolerguys and gave me $39 and we would both be happy. :0
