Windows crash when rendering (blue screen of death)

[Simple Freeze]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the last version of the nightlies 26879. When I'm rendering and explosion I simulated using scanline it crashes windows giving the blue screen of death with this error "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT". I'm using 3DsMax 2016 with Windows 10. I have my CPU overclocked which I thought was the reason but the crash only happens when I'm rendering even on the first frame while a simulation of 8 hours was fine without any issues. I tried the version before it 26878 and everything was fine without any crash. I know version 3 is almost out I just thought I mention this to you in case that was a bug and made it to the new version.

Thanks


Ali

[Morbid Angel]

Its most likely due to your overclock. Its nothing to do with version.

Have a head here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...44cfd03?auth=1

I would suggest turning off the overclock and running a render again, if it works then you know it was the oc.

[Simple Freeze]

Thanks for the reply but I googled the error and did a couple of tests before posting it here. I can't find it now but I read on one of the forums on microsoft website that this error can also be caused by plug n play USB drivers which can relate to the dongle for Phoenix, just a thought, also if the version does not matter then the previous versions should have the same problem which they didn't. What I did was
-remove the overclock and test it with the latest version=same crash
-install previous version=render just fine
-reinstall the latest version again=same crash
-reinstall the previous version again=render fine
-overclocking again with previous version=render fine

it's like if I want to see blue screen of death I install the latest build and it will crash half way through the frame. I'm open to any suggestion you have as I love to troubleshoot and maybe this will help me in another situation.

btw loved your reel really amazing work

[Morbid Angel]

Thanks! Did you install latest wibu drivers for the dongle? You might need to get them from the website:

https://www.wibu.com/downloads-user-software.html

[Ivaylo Katev]

in the most cases the blue screens are pointing to a driver issue, you are using cpu rendering right?

[Simple Freeze]

I never actually updated the wibu drivers maybe that's the reason, nice suggestion do you know how can I find my current driver's version. I don't want to go a head and try updating drivers or mess anything up since the previous version is working fine and I'm working on something. I was thinking of waiting for the new version which is almost there

[Simple Freeze]

Yes I'm using Scanline render for now. I don't have VRay