Can't Celeron D 2.4 Ghz handle extensive rendering?

[teddyn]

hi all, it's my first message. I need your advice regarding my problem. my PC keep restarting everytime i import movie file. I've been doing some intensive projects on Adobe premiere, before the problem started i've made 3 movies. couple of days ago the the electricity went off in my house and after that everytime i import movie file my pc restarts. i suspect this because the psu are dying... or the celeron d became weaker. i would like to upgrade because of that, any sugestion? i need a good price performance system and also a nice psu with around $40-$50. thanks in advance.
Here's my system:
Celeron D 2.4 Ghz, 256 cahce
Nvidia fx 5200 ultra 128 Mb 128 bit
512 Mb RAM
380 watt non true power psu
80 Gb HD

 

[zsdersw]

I'd turn off automatic restarting after a blue screen and see if the computer is crashing before jumping to any conclusions rooted in the hardware.

 

[Zap]

Welcome to the forums.

The Celeron D can handle anything that any other, more illustrious CPUs can handle, just not quite as fast. Rebooting is just a sign that something's broken, be it software or hardware. Seeing as it was working on your system and magically not working after a power outage...

Run programs for testing stability, such as Prime or any variety of other software. If system doesn't pass, then there's a hardware fault so start by checking temperatures (may be coincidental, but can be a culprit). Then check stuff like PSU (borrow one to use for a day).

If testing shows it is stable, then suspect the software so start by reinstalling Premiere, then perhaps a Windows reinstall.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Definitely try getting a new, decent ($50 +) power supply; besides that, check the temperature. It IS summer now, (here at least; I don't know where YOU live!) and with the increased ambient temperature and a good processing load like that along with some years of dust buildup, it's easy to hit the shutdown temperature. Still, that shouldn't make it restart, just shut down completely. Can't hurt to check, though (clean out dust, check temperatures under load).

 

[teddyn]

thank you all for the advices. as your sugestion, i replaced the power supply (swap it with the same psu from my sister's pc), clean the dust inside the casing and rearrange the wires (hoping the air circulation inside the casing improved). Then.. i try to recreate the same scenario all over again, i import the movie file.... and the PC rebooted again.
i live in JOGJA ( a district in INDONESIA). it's quite HOT in here and the power outage happens many times due to the electricity power lines recovery (there are many power outage happened and i asume the current / voltage of electricity were also not stable yet) after the 6.3 earthquake. i continue using my pc intensively in making the documentary movie during that time. so i previously guessed it was hardware problem only and the problem was affected by that condition.
I definetely will get the prime 95 soon and start torturing my pc to find out what goes wrong with the hardware. I will also try to use the windows automatic recovery and Norton Win Doctor before start uninstal adobe premiere or reinstall the windows.
Thanks again for all the advices.
By the way, i want to know, is rendering procces more depended on the processor or the graphic card? if i do a lot of rendering and movie editing (... and also playing games) what kind of (mainstream) processor and (mainstream) graphic card i should get?

 

[zsdersw]

I'd strongly recommend some sort of uninterruptible power supply, especially one that will compensate for over- and under-voltages. Let it take the fall for any power issues you're having.. not your computer's hardware.

 

[Zap]

video encoding is CPU. Playing games is video card.

 

[teddyn]

ok. thank you all for the advices.

 

[teddyn]

UPDATE:
I finally solved the problem!! here's the story:
i had run prime95, norton windoctor, memtest, system stabilitytest (everest ultimate),reinstall adobe premiere. but the problem were still existed. then i see the temperatures from everest reading, my hardisk turned out to be much hotter than the cpu temp and other temps (HD=38C, cpu=33C-38C,MB=25C). then i suspected the problem was because the hardisk overheated. then i placed 2 chassis fan in front of it, and the temps become lower. i try to import the movie file but the pc still rebooted again.
finally i made my decision to reinstall windows. before doing that i check the drives in HD, out of my expectation, i found out the drive where i used to work for video editing was badly fragmented and the big-size-source-movie-files were among the files that were fragmented. then i defrag the drives and after finished, i try to import the movie file again and voila... the problem had gone, the PC didn't reboot again... and the movie file imported succesfully.
thank you all for the advices.

 

[Zap]

You're welcome, and thanks for the update. Wow, sometimes it's something that isn't very obvious.