computer crash during long renders...

computer crash during long renders...#389656

By choo-chee - Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:31 am

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:31 am #389656

well title says it all. suddenly my computer cannot complete over night renders. It happened on another computer that was very dirty inside so one of the fans stopped spinning but this computer looks fine. any ideas? thanks !

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389658

By Mihai - Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:34 pm

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:34 pm #389658

I'd run CPU and RAM torture tests for a few hours.

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389659

By choo-chee - Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:02 pm

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:02 pm #389659

well MR is sort of torture tests....
and the crash is complete reboot, not app crash. forgot to mention earlier, sorry.

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389661

By numerobis - Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:21 pm

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:21 pm #389661

some more info about the hardware (incl. temperatures) would be helpful...

Maxwell 3.2.1.2 - Win 7 x64

Re: computer crash during long renders...#389662

By choo-chee - Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:29 pm

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:29 pm #389662

i7 running at 3.5 ghz with 16mb ram.
have to install MBM etc. to see temp.... good idea, forgot about that.
edit:cpu temp. is at 62 deg. (Celsius) after 2 hours run, still rendering.

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389667

By numerobis - Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:24 pm

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:24 pm #389667

i7 model?
PSU?
Board?
RAM specs?

62°C... which tool?

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389672

By Mihai - Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:42 pm

- Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:42 pm #389672

Run those tools and it would at least tell you if it's Maxwell related or hardware related. Probably hardware related....

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389674

By choo-chee - Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:41 am

- Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:41 am #389674

I'm sure it's not maxwell related but I was hopping to get some good tips from guys like me that work their computers to the death

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389675

By Mihai - Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:14 am

- Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:14 am #389675

Well, my tip is run those tools first of all. It can be the MB, the CPU, the RAM, the PSU. Running such tools would at least help to pinpoint the problem.

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389676

By choo-chee - Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:31 am

- Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:31 am #389676

well as for now, I've disabled any aspect of windows that says something like "hibernate" "sleep" etc. and the computer is still rendering after 18 hours...
I suspect that for some reason windows is to blame (as usual).
I know that hardware failure is not likely to happen like that, since during the day the computer is fine when I'm working with it.
And if it's clean (yes I do keep an air-blower in the office for cleaning PC's) it will not over heat.

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Re: computer crash during long renders...#389677

By JDHill - Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:05 pm

- Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:05 pm #389677

Don't forget to consider driver issues as well; it took me a while to figure out why my laptop would freeze sometimes when resuming from a period of being inactive -- I finally found that it could happen if my second monitor was connected via HDMI, but not if I used Display Port. I don't need to use both at the same time, so I have never actually looked into fixing the issue, and with driver updates occurring in the meantime, who even knows if it is still a problem.

In your case, if disabling sleep/hibernate/etc turns out not to have helped, I'd also look at any process that runs late at night, such as product or Windows updates, a nightly backup, or a virus scan.

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