PD 8 Won't Start after hardware change!

Kevin66

Newbie Location: Chicago, IL Joined: Aug 23, 2010 12:07 Messages: 29 Offline

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Sep 14, 2010 22:17

This is weird... I replaced my current video card with a new one and now PD8 won't load. I get a Windows error message.

I de-installed PD8 and then re-installed and still it won't load.

All of my other programs appear unaffected.

Any ideas? Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 Bit
Intel I7 930 (overclocked 3.6)
RAID 0 WD Caviar Black 2GIG, WD Green 1GIG (Backup)
8 GIG Corsair RAM
NVIDIA 1GIG GTX 460

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Sep 14, 2010 22:31

Hi Kevin -

Try re-installing the latest QuickTime - that's been known to work.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Cheers - Tony
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Kevin66

Newbie Location: Chicago, IL Joined: Aug 23, 2010 12:07 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 14, 2010 22:34

It still won't load. Same windows error message. Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 Bit
Intel I7 930 (overclocked 3.6)
RAID 0 WD Caviar Black 2GIG, WD Green 1GIG (Backup)
8 GIG Corsair RAM
NVIDIA 1GIG GTX 460

Kevin66

Newbie Location: Chicago, IL Joined: Aug 23, 2010 12:07 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 14, 2010 22:46

I just removed Quicktime and still no go... Error Message: Power Director Stopped Working, Windows will try to find a solution. Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 Bit
Intel I7 930 (overclocked 3.6)
RAID 0 WD Caviar Black 2GIG, WD Green 1GIG (Backup)
8 GIG Corsair RAM
NVIDIA 1GIG GTX 460

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Sep 15, 2010 08:25

What happens when you put your old card back?

What's the new card spec and the old card spec?

As PD will stress a system that has a weakness, perhaps the card is at fault.

Dafydd

Kevin66

Newbie Location: Chicago, IL Joined: Aug 23, 2010 12:07 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 16, 2010 11:09

Thanks Dafydd... something strange with Windows I think like a corrupt registry entry.

I bought new hard drives to set up in a RAID config so I ended up re-installing Windows fresh. I then reinstalled PD8 and it works fine now. Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 Bit
Intel I7 930 (overclocked 3.6)
RAID 0 WD Caviar Black 2GIG, WD Green 1GIG (Backup)
8 GIG Corsair RAM
NVIDIA 1GIG GTX 460

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Sep 16, 2010 13:41

Thanks Kevin for the followup post. I do have a special CL provided cleaner which may have helped with a re-install but not if the registry was just plain corrupted I suspect.

Good info though.

I'm glad you're sorted and now editing

Dafydd

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