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Originally posted by Mutt
hmm............ P4 256 mb RAM ....... and it takes 15 seconds to boot up Photoshop 6.
maybe i don't have enough memory........sounds like it should be faster.
i don't care really.......it seems blazing fast to me, a year ago i was using a Pentium 233 with 64 mb RAM and it took probably 2 minutes.
ya know, i'm not much of a techie, what's a good piece of software to see if my computer is working as well as it should and if it sucks will give me some possible reasons why?
i've had a sneaking suspicion ever since i got this computer that it's not performing up to what it should.
I can't encode video using Windows Media Encoder, crashes the machine if i try to encode at anything but the crappiest quality, little movies made for 56k dialup. I couldn't get anyboy to
tell me why, the machine far exceeds Microsoft's requirements, i know lots of people with a P4 256MB machine who have no trouble encoding WMV movies. But what the fuck? How am i supposed to figure out why it won't work? I went to Microsoft newsgroups, all the good video sites like DVDHelp.com, nobody could help me.
I don't even know who to call in the phonebook for that kind of thing cuz it's about a specific piece of software. I will NOT call Microsoft's support and pay those morons..........been there done that seen that horror show before.
well any help or suggestions are appreciated.
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256M should be fine, but I tend to be a RAM junkie and run at least a gig in my machines. Does your pc crash at any other time or is it just when you run encoder. If it only crashes during encoder most likely it is a software related issue, however if you get random lockups during other program you may wanna look into hardware. With windows it can be pretty difficult to narrow down software issues , but my best suggestion would be to first go to control panel --> add/remove programs and uninstall any unneccessary programs. Also do an uninstall of encoder and any other prgrams that may have been installed with it. Open IE, go to Tools--> windows update and be sure to download any patches that may be available. May wanna upgrade to the latest version of Windows Media Player as well (even though I think 9 is a POS) as that could also be causing the issue. Also go to the windows media site (microsoft.com/mediaplayer or something ?) and download and install any codec packs they have available. If that doesnt solve it ..... umm get really upset at Bill Gates and consider a reinstall of your OS if its that important.
Rory
