PC keeps rebooting during Full HD video/audio recording

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I am trying to record my karaoke performances using an AKG Perception 420 studio condenser mic connected to a Behringer mixer connected to a Boss Pro CL-50 compressor/limiter/gate plugged into the line in input of my Creative Soundblaster x-fi xtreme music soundcard. I am using stereo mix or what-u-hear on the soundcard which records whatever can be heard on the headphones which includes vocals and backing track played on the computer karaoke software. I record the video separately using Logitech Full HD C910 webcam and its video recording software (muting the webcam's mic) and then record the audio at the same time using the Creative audio console program. Problem is my computer keeps crashing and rebooting. Is this a RAM problem (I use 3 GB RAM) or a CPU problem (I use Intel duo quad core Q6600 2.4 Ghz) or something else? The recording manages to go through past half way of the song which is around 2 minutes and a half. Sometimes it evens get to the end of the song but rarely. I have much more success recording in 720p than 1080p.

I have done a test recording this way with great success but only talking mode not singing nor did I use a backing track. The video was for about 1 minute in 1080p mode. I use a video editing program like Cyberlink PowerDirector 10 Ultra or Windows Movie Maker to merge the audio and video. And no one would have known the video and the audio were recorded separately using 2 different programs. Audio and video were perfectly in synch and it was an easy job merging the two.
 
It reboots itself?

Is the crash bluescreen?

Without probing it sounds like overheating to me.

Download a temperature monitor and keep an eye on it to prove the theory.
 
I`ve had that happen on mine, turns out my heatsink had came loose..actually, the bracket holding it to the processor, broke..
 
your PC is plenty for the audio task but video can totally munch up your CPU....I use vegas studio on a overclocked quad core and it pushes it

I dont know about the cyberlink softwre but windows movie maker is buggy as hell...the fact that 720 is working better for you than 1080 would suggest to me that your PC might not be up to the task at higher resolutions :(
 
yes there was that so called bluescreen of death.......but now I found out if I disable the webcam's mic on recording properties of windows vista it no longer crashes.....before that the recording properties had "what-u-hear" (stereo mix) and the webcam's mic enabled toegther. Now I just enable "what-u-hear" only on recording properties.
 
Ah,ok.

Strange one, but hey, If it works it works right?

Thanks for the update.
 
sabathiel said:
yes there was that so called bluescreen of death.......but now I found out if I disable the webcam's mic on recording properties of windows vista it no longer crashes.....before that the recording properties had "what-u-hear" (stereo mix) and the webcam's mic enabled toegther. Now I just enable "what-u-hear" only on recording properties.
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It may be then a driver issue or driver conflict. I am not sure, however, what drivers your webcams mic use (is this a built in webcam or a external one?). You may be able to find out more information if you go to START menu >> Run, and type eventvwr.msc and press ENTER. This will open the Event Viewer. From here you should be able to find events with a red X. They will have information on the crashes. Also, if you do get a blue screen again, if you could take a picture of it and post it, you can get info from the data written there. However, it doesn't give definative information, and often times it gives nothing helpful, but it's worth a shot.
 
I was going to say suspect the cyberlink software and crative soundcard but since you found a fix for it anyway, you should be good. However, I have to agree with kcearl that video is a monster. I use vegas as well. I have had my pc completely freeze where all I can do is shut down and start over when I try to render 3+ minutes of 1080p for a song/video .. but IF I do 720 there is no problem with rendering, except a bit of a wait time. I GO TO LUNCH AFTER HITTING EXECUTE!!! I'm talking with the exact same project.

Another "fix" that I found (which is not that great of 1) is just to chop up my project and render several TINY clips. Then I upload all of the tiny clips into youtube and let youtube turn my 720 into 1080p. BUT I DON'T LIKE THIS "FIX" so im increasing my budget so I can buy a new pc.

WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE. please go to this page https://www.facebook.com/Gully.Jewelz.DMV and comment about the song TURN IT UP
 
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