Steve Silverman
11-13-2003, 12:51 PM
I would be eternally grateful to anybody out there who could give me some
clues about this problem.
For the last few weeks, an XP-based system that has always been perfectly
stable has been locking up whenever I try to create mp3s. There is no
pattern as to how far through the process this happens, but happen it does
nine times out of ten. It also happens occasionally when I am listening to
streaming audio while performing other tasks. This is where I have got to
with my diagnosis.
I know it's not a corrupt software problem as I have blitzed and rebuilt the
system twice since the problem first appeared.
I know it's not an application problem as I have tried generating the mp3s
with Windows Media Player, iTunes, Exact Audio Copy, and CDEX. They all
crash.
I know it's not a problem with the CD drive as it also happens when I try to
encode wave files from my hard disk.
It seems to me that it must be a piece of hardware that is starting to fail,
but absolutely everything else I use the PC for works fine. The only thing I
can think of is the sound card, but I'm not sure what function, if any,
that performs in the encoding of mp3s.
I'm now getting desperate to solve this problem, not least because I have
just acquired an iPod and I can't play with it properly until this is
fixed!!
Steve Silverman
clues about this problem.
For the last few weeks, an XP-based system that has always been perfectly
stable has been locking up whenever I try to create mp3s. There is no
pattern as to how far through the process this happens, but happen it does
nine times out of ten. It also happens occasionally when I am listening to
streaming audio while performing other tasks. This is where I have got to
with my diagnosis.
I know it's not a corrupt software problem as I have blitzed and rebuilt the
system twice since the problem first appeared.
I know it's not an application problem as I have tried generating the mp3s
with Windows Media Player, iTunes, Exact Audio Copy, and CDEX. They all
crash.
I know it's not a problem with the CD drive as it also happens when I try to
encode wave files from my hard disk.
It seems to me that it must be a piece of hardware that is starting to fail,
but absolutely everything else I use the PC for works fine. The only thing I
can think of is the sound card, but I'm not sure what function, if any,
that performs in the encoding of mp3s.
I'm now getting desperate to solve this problem, not least because I have
just acquired an iPod and I can't play with it properly until this is
fixed!!
Steve Silverman