WinXP SP2

Are you using BIOSTAR VGA Card? try to change another VGA card and load the latest driver.

What are you converting, I convert avi to mpeg 4 on a celeron 2.2ghz, 40GB hd, 512MB Ram, 64 MB intel integrated graphics, WINXP w/sp2 using Videora iPod Convert, this runs the CPU at %100 usage, every thing runs slow and if I run multiple applications they all freeze, so I normally let it run over night and in the morning every thing is sweet. Maybe you should look at your process see which ones are freezing a good app to do this is process explorer from sysinternals (freeware) .

Hi

I too do a fair amount of video work. You need to make sure your hard drive is up to the task - check your event logs and see if there is an event that tells you what has caused the problem.

Also, even if your hard drive specs are sufficient, I would still make sure that the drive itself is healthy. I was using a new 120GB SATA drive for converting multi-gigabyte AVI's into WMV's, but the drive was bad and the PC kept hanging. Replacing the drive has solved my problem.

Also, as above, I normally allow the program to run on its own - there is no point in trying to do anything else.

If you want to multi-task you will need a very powerful PC - several processors, heaps of superfast RAM, SCSI drives etc etc

One other thing - are you using a separate drive for this, or are you using the system drive? If the latter, I really recommend that you purchase a separate drive otherwise you risk breaking your PC.

Good luck