PC crashes and I am unable to render my video project on Adobe Media Encoder

Mar 28, 2018
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There are multiple problems that have occured on my computer since around, or maybe later than, March 8th of this year.

Basically, if I use intensive programs, my computer crashes. Before these problems occured, my PC was completely fine and could render projects at at most 3 hours. It never crashed.

The video project, which lasts for about 12 seconds and uses the plugins twitch, magic bullet looks, and s_shake along with 3D camera, stops rendering a minute into rendering it through Adobe Media Encoder, showing an unknown error in the log. Even if I cut the project in half and render from the middle, it still crashes a minute into rendering and this time, and shows “Windows has encountered a critical problem and will restart automatically in one minute. Please save your work now.”

This message occured more often before I tried removing all threats through Malwarebytes, because I suspected it might be a virus. It still occurs sometimes, especially if I’m using more than one program at a time.

When I am using more than one program at a time, for example, Chrome and Adobe After Effects, both crash after leaving them on for a while. Even if I’m not using intensive programs and I’m just using two browsers, both will crash after some time. And even if I’m using only one program, if I leave the PC on for a while and it goes into sleep mode, often it I’ll have to log back in and I can type my password, but I won’t be able to press enter. After waiting a while, the PC crashes and restarts itself.

Not to mention, the MP4 files that I had renamed to MOV worked in Adobe After Effects prior to this problem. Now, they won’t work in Adobe After Effects and show as missing video files. I usually like using MOV files because they don’t glitch in After Effects like MP4 files do.

So far, I’ve downloaded Malwarebytes, Panda Dome, Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast to scan and get rid of problems with viruses on my computer. I also updated my drivers with Avast. The problems still persist.
I suspect that it could be because my CPU overheated, because my PC always makes loud noises while it’s rendering, and I render video projects often. However, my video projects are always under 15 seconds.

I’ve also checked to see how high the temperature of my CPU goes up when I render in Adobe Media Encoder, and it will only go up 66 degrees at most. It stays between 50 - 66 degrees.

Specs:

Operating System - Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (32 bit)

Processor - AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor, 2200 Mhz

Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

System Model - GX612AAR-ABA m8330f

RAM - 3.00 GB (Memory Type: DDR2 [PC2-5300])

I will provide more computer specs if asked ^^
 
That used to happen to me too. It was my video card getting hot. Don't forget memory gets hot too.
Somewhere, I don't remember where but I checked the box to use my video card to help speed things up and that is what got the card hot but a good cleaning cured it. BTW, after checking box to use video card too, things got really really faster, scary faster, I love it.