Weird problem

[marklwood]

I, like Dale, would lean toward hardware failure. I would have suggested memtest86 (tells you how old I am) an old DOS utility that I used to use to diagnose intermittent memory failure. After a quick search I found http://www.memtest.org/download/2.01...+-2.01.iso.zip
Seems someone else liked it too and has been updating it to keep up with new CPUs and chipsets. Burn it to a disk and boot from the CD. That way you don't introduce anything to your pristine computer.

[swany]

Windows XP 2000, MTU built rack mount. Ran over two years without one problem. One day while using the windows media player it would get into a song and reboot the PC. Sometimes you would get 20 seconds into it sometimes 30 minutes. I play DJ and KJ at all my gigs. I use the Media Player and like it for DJ. The hoster saved me that night because it worked flawlessly, and I used it for the DJ to finish the night. I tried and tried to resolve the problem. Ultimately, I wound up taking it out of the DJ cart I mounted it in, and brought it in put it on line, upgraded from WMP10 to WMP11, went from Hoster 3.317 to 3.321 all is well. Kind of like the meat in a burger at a fast food joint, it's a mystery. Defragging is good, if you still have a lot of the clutter that came with the pc I would get rid of it first. Things like the student version of microsoft whatever. You don't go online, no problem you don't need all the extra ways to get on the net all I ever use is the big blue E. Sample pictures, videos, music, all warning sound except for the PCs internal battery. Programs you don't use, most often you don't need. They take up space and time.

[Beavis]

when all else fails, i reformat.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Beavis

when all else fails, i reformat.

I didn't want to give him the bad news yet, but unfortunately Windows (all versions but especially 2000) gets slower and uses more memory/page file and registry space the longer you run it.

[billyo]

i just bought a new music editing program, and i read that if a sudden lost of audio or audio just stop in the mid. of a song, according to the troubleshooting manual it's usually the memory is getting low, or something to that effect...( hope i read the manual right ) and also manual said to check the audio setting and see if the wave volume is up..