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Originally Posted by Lonman
The last few weeks or so, i've had songs that normally play just fine just STOP for absolutely no reason. Try to restart & they stop again. Reboot the computer & the file plays perfectly.
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When you initially play a song, it is read into memory. If there is a bad "spot" in the memory, the song will hang without even showing an error. After a reboot, you clear the memory of any bits. Then when you reload the same song, it is in a different section of the memory and reads fine.
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Originally Posted by Lonman
Now it's becoming almost a nighltly event where some song is going to stop in the midst & need to either play off disc while rebooting the computer or move to another song.
Has anyone experienced anything remotely similar & what did you do (or would you try) to correct it?
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Memory problems are the hardest to diagnose, that is why I linked you to the memtest program. It is virtually impossible to re-create the error at will. Where as a hard drive problem can usually be re-created. The # of sectors that are bad will continue to fail at an accellerating rate. If you have spares yoou could just swap them out and see if that fixes the problem. I would hate to see you start back from scratch only to have the problem come creeping back.