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iDVD crashes

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ompa9

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G'day All,

iDVD (iLife '05 versions) continually crashes by machine usually during rendering or encoding processes. Is my machine spec'ed high enough for these tasks ? Is anyone successfully using iMovie and iDVD with these specs or lower ?

iMac Hardware Overview:

Machine Model: iMac
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.6.8f4

Regards Mark
 
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Your system should be able to run iDVD with no problems. Are you experiencing a hard crash or some other type of crash? In that your system freezes up or do you get an error when rendering and the renders aborts?
 
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ompa9

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G'day,

Yes its a hard crash, reboot only. and yes its iDVD 5.0.1.

Regards Mark
 
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ompa9

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G'day All,

I'm updating this thread for the sake of the frustrated ones following in the future. After a lot of frustration with this, the problem has been found.

It was bad memory. I ran 'memtest' and it found several errors, then I removed the additional 512K card from the non-factory slot and retried the software running successfully on both Panther and Tiger OS's.

Regards Mark
 

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