MacPro Crash

Question

Hey All,
We have a Quad 3.0 Mac Pro that we are weekly editing an hour long show on. Our projects are ntsc dv projects with the bulk of the footage captured from a Sony DSR 25 Dvcam deck. The problem we are running into is that each of these projects has about 25 - 35 embedded Motion titles that are between 10 - 35 seconds long. The Motion files are pretty simple, text over a lower third alpha channel backgrounds from Digital Juice. When we try to render the project it will progress about half way and then the computer will crash. I've reinstalled final cut studio and have done an erase and install of Mac Os X twice. We trouble shot with Apple support by phone and they ended up sending us a new video card which unfortunately didn't change anything. We took it to the Apple Store and the geniuses ran diagnostics on it and said the hardware is good. It seems the Digital Juice/Motion combination is causing the problem, but we are using different Digital Juice libraries and importing them onto our scratch disk. It's never files from the same dvd's so I have a hard time believing its corrupt assets. The projects are completely independent with all graphics created per project. All updates are current. RAM chips are Kingston 4 x 512 (riser A) and 2 x 1Gb (riser B). I had 3GB and then 5Gb of memory in there, but I read the Apple suggestion of evenly installing the Ram for the Mac Pro and so I changed it to 4Gb. I'm open to any suggestions, pretty frustrated with the whole deal. Hope I included all pertinent information. Let me know if you need other info about the system or projects.
Mac Pro Quad 3.0 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9) 4 Gb Ram

Answer 1

Is your computer crashing or just FCP? I am getting the gray screen with the multiple languages telling me to shut down the computer. Here is my error report for anyone who knows what it means. It does seem like it is referencing video card drivers or something, I don't know.
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00128DA7): {0} Assertion failed: file "/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-792.18.15/libkern/c++/OSObject.cpp", line 267: mem
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x49313bb8 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x49313bdc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x49313bf8 : 0x128da7 (0x3cb15c 0x0 0x3f100c 0x10b)
0x49313c28 : 0x3be0cd (0x3f100c 0x10b 0x3d65bc 0x8d23480)
0x49313c48 : 0x8e9d6e (0x217c 0x8135c00 0x7b9dce0 0x0)
0x49313c68 : 0x8c9048 (0x7eaa000 0x9012c8 0x7b9dce0 0x81c9a9c)
0x49313c98 : 0x38b485 (0x7eaa000 0x7b7bcb0 0x7b7bcb0 0x0)
0x49313ce8 : 0x3b18ea (0x7eaa000 0x7b7bcb0 0x7b7bcb0 0x0)
0x49313d48 : 0x18d4d2 (0x7eaa000 0x7b7bcb0 0x0 0x0)
0x49313db8 : 0x12b4c3 (0x81c9a80 0x85aea98 0x49313df8 0x11e042)
0x49313df8 : 0x124b17 (0x81c9a00 0x7b484f8 0x17ca064 0x0)
0x49313f08 : 0x195a42 (0x49313f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x49313fc8 : 0x19b21e (0x84fbea0 0x0 0x10 0x0) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffe96e8
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(4.5.2)@0x8bc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x5e5000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.5)@0x696000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.5)@0x6b1000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(4.5.2)@0x6c0000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386
Model: MacPro1,1, BootROM MP11.005C.B04, 4 processors, Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 3 GHz, 5 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 512 MB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2, 512 MB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3, 512 MB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4, 512 MB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3, 512 MB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4, 512 MB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 667 MHz
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, Display, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: ST3250824AS P, 232.89 GB
Serial ATA Device: HDS724040KLSA80, 372.61 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST3400620AS, 372.61 GB
Parallel ATA Device: SONY DVD RW DW-D150A, 7.51 GB
USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 100 mA
USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 250 mA
FireWire Device: unknown_device, unknown_value, Unknown
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, unknown_value, Unknown
FireWire Device: DSR-11, Sony, Unknown
Mac Pro Quad 3.0 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9) 4 Gb Ram