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[harleydude]

MC will play MP3 for a couple of minutes then totally reboot the PC.  So far I have not been able to detect a pattern.

What next?

System Info
Media Center 10.0.161 -- d:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 866 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 228 MB, Free - 91 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.5436 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive F: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-207F   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive F: SAMSUNG  CD-R/RW SW-207F    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:6  MaxSpeed:6  BurnProof:No
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: No /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None


Rick

[GHammer]

Just one MP3 or any MP3?

[harleydude]

Any MP3 best I can tell.

Rick

[Matt]

A reboot is almost always a hardware problem.

Try updating soundcard drivers.  It's also possible you have bad memory or some other device causing troubles.

Using a different output system (WaveOut, DirectX, ASIO) in MC might make a difference as well.

[Michel Lefebvre]

I had a similar problem yesterday. MC would crash (but not reboot the PC...) after about 2 minutes of play on any MP3 I threw at it.

Today I uninstalled the Audioscrobbler plugin and the problem went away.

Coincidence? Not sure.

But do you have the plugin installed by any chance?

Running V11.0.82 here...

Michel.

[harleydude]

Some additional info.

About a week prior to the problems I installed a Soundblaster USB sound card.  Used it with no problems up till the crashes started happening.

This past Friday evening I installed Windows Media Encoder 9 on the same PC.  Do not recall if I ran MC prior to Sunday, when the crashes started occuring.  However, Sunday I did us MC for sometime before it started having any problems.

I will uninstall WME and see if it corrects the problem.

Rick

[harleydude]

Well removing WME did not change anything.  Anyone have any ideas?  Is there any other debug information I can provide?

Rick

[JimH]

Try pulling any cards you can, starting with the soundblaster.