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#Dell P120 crashes

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#169037From: Rich BarnettMay 8, 1995 11:55 PM

Brian, I just hooked up my new machine and it crashes in the "Transforming Objects" portion of rendering in the R4 keyframer. The machine is a Dell XP Pentium 120 with 32MB EDO ram, IDE 1GIG HD, Number Nine 9FX Motion 771 2MB VRAM PCI graphics board, etc. My project is 523,558 polygons large. I think I'm going to cry. I bought it to process a large number of frames for a deadline-intensive project. Any ideas? Also, Vibrant drivers don't seem to support my graphics card. Any ideas there would also be appreciated. Thanks.

#169145From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]May 9, 1995 12:09 PM

Rich, We have seen this if you have POWER.EXE (or something similar) in your boot files. The power saving feature can't read 3DS activity that well becuase so much happens in RAM, with no keyboard activity. Remove that line from your CONFIG.SYS. -brian

#169173From: Rich BarnettMay 9, 1995 1:15 PM

Brian, if you were a girl, I'd kiss you.

#169181From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]May 9, 1995 1:45 PM

<<Brian, if you were a girl, I'd kiss you.>> What makes you think I'm not? -Brian

#169231From: Anne BrownMay 9, 1995 5:34 PM

Brian (or is it Briana)? Are you caught? <G> Thanks for the tip on POWER.EXE during long rendering time. Since I'm still in tutorial mode, the renders aren't that long but one more question out of the way. Anne

#169266From: Rich BarnettMay 9, 1995 8:01 PM

If you are, and your name is Brian, you're scaring me.

#169418From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]May 10, 1995 11:33 AM

<<If you are, and your name is Brian, you're scaring me.>> Be afraid. Be very afraid. I'm Joking!!!! -Brian

#169268From: Rich BarnettMay 9, 1995 8:43 PM

Hey, I'm still kinda having some weird problems. In the Materials Editor, if I click on the NONE bar to the right of Texture Map and select, say a TIF file, it takes about 10 seconds for the name of the selected file to appear in the space. It takes awhile longer to render the sample than I would expect also. I'm using VESA drivers until DELL gets there act together and sends me TurboDLD drivers. Any ideas?

#169299From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]May 9, 1995 10:47 PM

<< . Any ideas? >> When you Info/Status (? key), are you swapping?

#169427From: Rich BarnettMay 10, 1995 12:13 PM

Major.

#169602From: Steve OrmondeMay 11, 1995 10:35 AM

Hey Rich, I missed the beginning of your thread… What's up? – Steve Ormonde

#169611From: Rich BarnettMay 11, 1995 11:32 AM

Well, I unpacked this thing, loaded a 15mb project file, and it was hanging during the "transforming objects" phase of the renderings. Brian here in tech support correctly told me to remove a file called "power.exe" from my autoexec.bat, which is some sort of power/idle management/green utility. I did, and the problem went away. Apparently during long cpu activity, the utility thought nothing was happening, and went to green mode. I already had an RMA number from Dell! What about 'little Al?

#169784From: Steve OrmondeMay 12, 1995 10:47 AM

>> What about 'little Al? << Don't you mean "what about Arie?" <G> – Steve Ormonde

#169802From: Rich BarnettMay 12, 1995 12:29 PM

Angh, he's always been able to get around there fast. Andre is going good. I'm amazed how little nose cone testing there is going on with these speeds and all.

#169417From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]May 10, 1995 11:31 AM

<< Any ideas?>> If you are using the DELL video chips built into the mother board, I believe they are based on the S3 chipset. Download the latest Vibrant Driver (VIB3DS.ZIP) and configure your video display to use the S3 chipset. That should give you much better video performance. -Brian

#169428From: Rich BarnettMay 10, 1995 12:14 PM

Nope. It has a Number Nine 9FX Motion 771 PCI board w/2MB VRAM. Apparently, it's the latest board from NN.