fed up of blue screen:(

[Jack]

ever since i installed my new windows 7 ultimate x64 on my pc terragen is plagued by bucket errors and blue screens and just doesnt really function anymore im fed up:( i have made a dual boot and installed my old xp x64 pro on one hard drive but it has the same problems as well.
what should i do guys im really at my wits end here
i have got about 6 scenes ready to render but they cant even manage the gi process without crashing and some of the scenes are just basic height fields no objects clouds or anything:(.

my last render i had to crop into 6 pieces and really dull down the settings and in my view that is not acceptable and if it persists i will be moving full time over to max and rely on it for rendering as well which is a shame because terragen is my favorite program by far

[Oshyan]

So you have no problems rendering in Max? Is CPU and memory utilization similar with both apps? Have you done a memory test?

- Oshyan

[Jack]

have no idea how to do a memory test lol
and yes i can render fine in vray mentalray final render and maxwell
vue 8 has problems with the default render (blue screen) but runs fine through mentalray xstream

[Oshyan]

It sounds a lot more like a hardware or driver issue than a TG issue. I'd start with a memory test. Download and extract the ISO from the following URL, then burn it to a disc and use it to boot your computer:
http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.iso.zip
When you start with the disc, it should go straight into a memory test. Let it run for at least an hour and see if any errors come up.

Also, are you doing any overclocking? Any other hardware or software changes recently?

- Oshyan

[Jack]

It sounds a lot more like a hardware or driver issue than a TG issue. I'd start with a memory test. Download and extract the ISO from the following URL, then burn it to a disc and use it to boot your computer:
http://www.memtest.org/download/4.00/memtest86+-4.00.iso.zip
When you start with the disc, it should go straight into a memory test. Let it run for at least an hour and see if any errors come up.

Also, are you doing any overclocking? Any other hardware or software changes recently?

- Oshyan

cheers oshyan:) so does this tool fix errors or just finds out what is wrong? also do you have to mount it from a disk?

[Oshyan]

It just finds errors, does not fix them. If it does find errors, there are really only a few possible causes: bad memory, overclocking, or bad motherboard. Since it avoids all other software, drivers, etc. (by using its own boot environment), it eliminates the possibility of other components being a factor.

You need to burn the ISO to a CD as in "Burn image to disc" and then boot with it in the drive, and have your BIOS set to boot from CD. It will then auto-load itself. You can't use the computer while it's testing.

- Oshyan

[Jack]

mmmh i will try it tonight thanks id do not over clock my pc my mother boad is about 2 years old my memory 6gb is about a year old

[Dune]

Very good advice, Oshyan. I had to do this a couple of times, found faults in memory and had to replace the bars. After that; perfect. Hope it works for you, Wetbanana.

[Jack]

Very good advice, Oshyan. I had to do this a couple of times, found faults in memory and had to replace the bars. After that; perfect. Hope it works for you, Wetbanana.

do you mean you had to actually replace the ram god i hope not i have no money atm:(

[Dune]

The manufacturers usually have a very long warranty against faults, so they'd replace for free if you're sure they're bad. Same with some hard disk manufacturers. The memory I found faulty came from a shop, so he replaced them, the hard disks were returned to Ireland, and I got sent a new one.

[Jack]

cool lets see if it is the ram though i have my suspisions they arnt slotted in right as sometimes it reads 2gb instead of 6gb or 4gb instead of 6gb

[Jack]

also do you think a simple cut polish of the machine would help abit the old rusty things getting a bit dusty lately

[Kadri]

also do you think a simple cut polish of the machine would help abit the old rusty things getting a bit dusty lately

I bought a cheap compressor just for this Wetbanana. Be careful with the cables and the other things in the case.

You say 6 gb ram... Do you have 3 pieces?. Try it with 2 pieces (with the same settings) and with different ram slots.
Read the manual of the motherboard for the best configuration.
There may be some settings in the bios that you must maybe enable (ı doubt it but just in case) .
You may have a bad HD (it happened to me) . A bad setup of Windows . Try these too .
I have seen strange problems in the past . There may be driver  or graphic card issues too .

Kadri.

[Jack]

right i ran the memory test and it came up zero errors i ran 8 passes over night and still no errors so it isnt hardware i don't think. what now guys

[Henry Blewer]

It sounds to me like the memory controller is bad. These are now built into the CPU I believe.