Dear Karsten,
RC does not normally do this right now. If I can recommend you something, please check your PSU (power supply unit) this seems like an issue leading to it. Here you can do the calculations https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator
Also please check your BIOS settings for RAM as you have placed in new modules.
Erik,
Thanks for the ideas…
So my power supply is a Corsair HX1000 and the power supply calculator says 510w recommended ( I have i9 9900k, RTX 2070, 64gb ram and a few SSD’s plus a M2 for the RC cache)
i have upgraded the bios / drivers everything possible on the software side today and my 64 gb ram seems to be running fine as well - all other apps run fine as well but none tax the system like RC does.
my HX1000 power supply fan only spins when the system is under load - it spins at startup so I know it works - i will try to render again and see if the fan spins under load maybe there is a problem there.
is there a debug mode for RC ? since the system rashes so hard when it comes up there is no crash report on the RC side
not sure what else to try ! as there is nothing else in windows event viewer…but it would be great to choose how many cores and how much ram to use its a helpful feature to have especially on large jobs.
thanks !!
There is no such debug available to users. Please try to control the PSU fans as u mentioned and thank you for the suggestions regarding power limits. Maybe you could also try to play around with Set affinity and Set priority in the Task manager Details sections. You should be able to set a lower priority for CPU on the RC process and affinity should be able to limit the cores.
Also, such settings should result in the model not creating that many parts and therefore possibly even be less harmful on the power in a longer term, but I cannot guarantee so.
so turns out you are 100% correct…
we have two workstations now with equal hardware and so i ran the job on both - and one of them completed while the other hard rebooted
(which is great news as we were finally able to complete the job which was getting to be very late!)
so i pulled it down the box that reboots all the time and noticed that while the PSU fan spins at startup it doesnt spin under load… which is hard to figure out as its a Corsair HX1000 which only starts spinning under load so i had to run it with the chassy open and watch the fan for a while
Hurrayyy
I have ordered a new PSU and will RMA this one when it arrives and will test again and let you know the outcome!
Oh that is real good news Karsten, of course I feel sorry for your wasted hardware, but I am glad we have come to a solution on such a hard case.