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BigBadBiologist said:Phoenix86 is dead on (as always).
1. check system temps.
2. run memtest.
Ahahah, that's great.Phoenix86 said:They have tried and failed, something about stack overflow.
jsn117 said:memtest gave me a shitload of errors...damn it.
is there any chance the data on my HDs was corrupted by the few days running on bad RAM?
jsn117 said:memtest gave me a shitload of errors...damn it.
is there any chance the data on my HDs was corrupted by the few days running on bad RAM?
Failing memtest86 means your system can't write/read memory properly. It doesn't mean the RAM is bad, but it's the most suspect.jsn117 said:memtest gave me a shitload of errors...damn it.
is there any chance the data on my HDs was corrupted by the few days running on bad RAM?
jsn117 said:Ok, new RAM seems to get my OS running fine, but on a second HD certain videos skip around a bit, with no fluctuations in CPU or HD activity.
is there any way to fix the files that shudder and shake around?
HHunt said:As a start, see how they play with mplayer. I've seen it play things that other programs have problems with more than once.
It's originally a linux project, but there's a windows port. I like this installer (and frontend), myself.
If the files themselves are damaged, you could always try a slight rebuild with mencoder:
Something like "mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy oldfile -o newfile.avi".
Basically, this will construct a new video container file, but copy the video and sound data untouched. There's a possibility that it'll help, but no guarantees.
(mencoder comes with mplayer. Unless you set a suitable PATH, you'll probably have to do "c:\program files\mplayer\mencoder (switches)", if that's where you installed it.)