I bought DVD Xpress by ADS Technology. It's a USB 2 video/audio capture
device with Ulead standard editions of Movie Maker 3 and Video Studio 7.

The software loaded properly, and I downloaded updates from the Ulead
website.

The capture device works well, up until "Stop Capture", at which point the
program freezes and Windows tells me "this program is not responding". I
restart the computer, and it will not reboot- it hangs at the memory test. I
cannot enter the BIOS, nor Gigabytes "Express Recovery". I have to clear the
CMOS, and remove one stick of RAM (using 2 X 512 MB Mushkin Level 1 PC3500).
Boot, reflash BIOS, setup preferences, continue boot sequence to windows.
Shutdown, add RAM back in, and then restart normally.

This is the only hardware/software program I'm using that shows any
instability at all. I've seen Half Life 2 use over 900 MB of RAM without a
hiccup (via a front panel LCD that monitors real time memory usage).

The rest of the system:
AMD64 3200+/Gigabyte K8NNXP (bios F12)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Omega drivers based on latest Cats)
2 X WD Raptor harddrives (36GB in RAID 0)
1 X IBM ATA HD (storage and virtual memory)
Plextor 708A DVD RW
Card reader/front LCD/FrontX panel
Windows XP w/SP2

The memory test ok. I've never run into a program that by simply running it
corrupts the BIOS (or at least that's what appears to happen). Does this
sound like hardware, software or a faulty motherboard? Anyone ever run into
a problem like this?

Thanks,
Fitz

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