#LightWave kills system
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Chuck,
Something very strange is going on. Looks like possibley a hardware failure.
I had a scene that, since Friday I had rendered to a clip several times, both
forward and backward. It created a clip with the top few lines showing some
other picture having nothing to do with the anim as far as I could see.
Today, everytime I have tried to render the scene the machine crashes with
80000004 and in many instances will not cold boot the next time I try a cold
boot unless I first go in, remove the Flyer card, cold boot, power-down,
replace the card, then power up. Is there some sort of flash rom on the Flyer
board, perhaps associated with the SCSI that LightWave may have trashed when it
failed to build a clip.
Note, the first failure occured trying to save an animation to a clip and
framestores to disk on the same render pass. LightWave has not been able to
save to a clip since.
This is the k version.
wmc – via Autopilot!
Have you tried autohue and FlyerCalibrate? That area might be rewritten, and
could cause a variety of problems if this has occurred.
Chuck.
Chuck,
I haven't dared to after what I went through with 4.03 and earlier. Since the
day after I put 4.06 on I checked the test signal through from input 1 to
program out and found it only about 3 deg out instead of over 30 on the chroma
phase I decided not to push my luck.
But if you are hinting that those areas received attention, I guess I could try
it.
wmc – via Autopilot!
Follow your nose, Wayne! But if the Toaster does still have a problem we ought
to find out, and I can check with our staff and get that back in for
correction.
Chuck.
Chuck,
I did the AutoHue and Flyer Cal with program out hooked to WF/VS and Full Field
bars to input 1. E-mailed detailed results. The most disturbing item on the
list was that, with the program out showing correct levels and phase, the
FlyerClip made from the same source plays back 10-15 IRE too hot.
Them boys been tweaking VTASC?
wmc – via Autopilot!
No, but we've uncovered more problems for systems with GVP brainboards, and
have them fixed in-house. I don't know if this would be related or not.
Chuck.