kingdaddy, I hope you have solved your problem by now. But, if not, you could be running into the same problem I have had when trying to Analyze very short audio files of less that 4 seconds or so. MC (through 11.1.196) seems to have a problem with these. Files this short are pretty rare, but when you have a live album with intros to each song being seperate files of something like 4 to 12 seconds, this becomes an annoyance.
I sent one of these short files to MC several months ago (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=32783.msg224487#msg224487), but no response.
I suppose this could be a problem not associated with MC. If so I would appreciate anyone testing this theory and responding to this thread.
Thanks for any help with a great product, Chuck.
This is a different problem to the origional posters 'reboot' problem
Things like 'lock-ups' of programs can be usually split into 2 catagories eg
Hardware
a file has a bad sector etc and windows hangs when trying to reading it making it look like the program has stopped
Software
if the program locks up on totally different sets of files then you can usually assume it's a programming error (as long as you've stress tested your cpu and ram - an overheating cpu is easy to check for but ram errors are more of a pain to spot)
The origional posters problems was that his pc would reboot
Usually there are 5 main reasons for this that I deal with regulary
1) failed hardware component that dies when the temperature goes too high
2) badly written drivers
3) overheating cpu
4) bad/overheating ram
5) psu is faulty/doesn't have enough power (most psu's can only supply their peak power for about a minute their normal rated supply being about 60-75% of their rated output) after the psu hit's it's peak limit - it'll drop the wattage and your pc restarts when the motherboards sees the voltages drop below their proper values - then it'll run fine until you do the same thing again - putting your hand over the fan at the back's a reasonable test - check how warm the airflow is before and during the analysis
The most commen problems I get are
cheap/nasty ram - replace with a good brand, especially if you use more than one stick (try to get exactly the same parts)
psu - not up to the job, replace it with a decent one (if you paid £25 for a case and psu, swap it out now - a good psu alone costs more than that)
cpu overheating under stress - normally only a problem if someone has updated their cpu and not the cooler