Getting BSoD Crashes on Win2000

[Adrian]

Running Win2000 Pro with a PCTV Card and after somewhere between 5 minutes and 20 minutes the system crashes and reboots itself. No SS log files (that I have found), and very difficult to track down.

Plenty of disk space. plenty of everything else (memory/processor etc) System is normally very stable and this is the only crash I have had with it.

The capture card worked file on Win2000 on a differnt machine in the beta testing.

Anybody got any ideas - or suggestions to try and identify what is happening?

[RobertH]

my guess is a possible IRQ conflict / sharing. One thing to try is to set windows up to not auto reboot when it crashes. To do this open system properties (windows key + pause) goto advanced tab and hit the startup and recorvery button. At the bottom there is a check box that states "Automatically restart" turn that off and you will be able to see the BSOD that shows up that might help you to narrow down the problem.

[Adrian]

OK - I'll try that.

Assuming it is IRQ - do you understand how it works enough for me to go about fixing this?

I should add: the WDM PCTV (Latest) Audio and video capture are both on IRQ 17 (with nothing else.

[RobertH]

in the case that it is above 15 then it might be a problem with the driver not supporting the new apic motherboards, you might have to go into the cmos and force the pci slot to have a specific irq lower than 15. Some driver manufacturers have not updated their drivers to support this.

[Pinky]

I had a similar situation with my PC, recently upgraded to AMD 2400. The problem turned out to be heat - The processor was running on the edge of too hot and snapstream would consistantly push it over the edge. Blue screens in NT Kernel every time.

When not recording, everything ran fine. Removing the cover gave me several days crash free, and enough insight to add more cooling. No problems since.