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[drdk]

Help!  I have been ripping for a week or so ? and really enjoying Media Center.

Last night while ripping a cd, I decided to check out the other graphical interface.(theatre mode I think its called)  Suddenly the computer locks up and nothing happens for several minutes.  I kept hearing the drive run, so I figured the rip was still going on.  Sure enough the regular screen comes back up and the rip completed.  Now for the problem:  I start up Media Center and it just sits there.  The opening screen from the internet eventually loads (3-4 mins) and then no functionality at all.

I love this program.  I want to use it, but am totally at a loss here.  If I reload the program, will I lose all my file associations and the hours of work I have in this thing?  Can anyone make a suggestion.

[KingSparta]

Provide your systems specs thru media center, help, system info and paste it in the forum here.

there has been others that have reported this, all have been on dated computers.

[drdk]

Thanks for the quick reply.  I am not at that computer right now.  It is almost new.  Pentium 2.8, two large hard drives, asus mother board, 1gig ram.  I don't think it would be because the machine is old.
 Thanks for any help and advice

[drdk]

no functionality in media center at all now.  got this from system info, hope it is enough to help.


OS Name   Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version   5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer   Microsoft Corporation
System Name   HTPC
System Manufacturer   To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Model   To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Type   X86-based PC
Processor   x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2798 Mhz
Processor   x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2798 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date   American Megatrends Inc. 080009, 11/6/2003
SMBIOS Version   2.3
Windows Directory   C:\WINDOWS
System Directory   C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device   \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale   United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer   Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name   HTPC\Larry Holt
Time Zone   Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory   1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory   732.04 MB
Total Virtual Memory   2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory   1.96 GB
Page File Space   2.40 GB
Page File   C:\pagefile.sys

[drdk]

now am totally confused.  Rebooted several times, opened and closed the program several times and suddenly it is working perfectly again!  I won't look a gift horse in the mouth, but sure do wonder what happened.