*sigh* All those cds and no way to play them...

[jon_chaisson]

Okay, so all those cds I bought at Amoeba the other day? So I go to put one of them in my cd drive on my new PC and...

...everything freezes. Well, I can move the mouse around, and I can use the Task Manager, but Media Monkey freezes, does the "(Not Responding)" note from Hell, and doesn't even react when I end it using Task Manager. And if I try to run something else, it decides not to work. Nothing responds. No friggin' clue what's kicking it off.

This is a new PC with 6 gigs of RAM and a terabyte of physical memory, people. It SHOULD NOT be doing stupid shit like this. It hasn't before. And yes, I did run all the usual PC cleaning devices recently, so I doubt it's that.


*sigh*

Any ideas? (And no, I do NOT want to hear "this wouldn't happen with a Mac" because I've SEEN it happen with a friend's Mac.)

Comments

[madhatte.livejournal.com]

reboot ten times and call me in the morning

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

*SMACK*

[head58.livejournal.com]

I assume yyou've tried this but reboot the machine, launch Windows Media Player or something first, THEN try getting the cd to play (instead of launching WMP directly by clicking on/inserting the cd). That sometimes works for me.

Also, try just playing an mp3 or other media file. Does the same thing happen? You may have a codec conflict, or something seriously fucked with your sound driver. Those are my only thoughts.

You've played cds in this machine before?

Worst case scenario: rip them to mp3 and listen to them that way (assuming that works).

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Actually I disconnected WMP because it kept on trying to update every time I booted up and ate up all kinds of memory doing it. Media Monkey's the only one I've been using and it's been working fine from the start. After having this happen twice, I did a system restore to earlier last week before it started acting stupid, so hopefully I can figure out what happened.

If anything, it wouldn't surprise me if something in Norton decided to scan every single thing in the PC. I only blame it because a new version came out...I'm thinking maybe I updated it wrong.

CDs played before: Yup. As if you had to ask. ;)

Worst Case Scenario: heh, that's actually what I was trying to do! Perhaps it took a look at my collection and decided to revolt. :p


I reinstalled the original Norton and going to run another scan, see if that works. Then maybe reinstall. Or something. ;)

[mekkasimian.livejournal.com]

POTENTIAL SEARCH TERMS: 'DRM ROOTKIT'

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[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Will check that out when I get home!

I didn't know my computer had a cupholder

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

Have you tried booting up with the CD already in place to see if that makes a difference?