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  • Hard lock during CD ripping

    The other day I decided to start ripping my CD collection. About 2 or 3 CDs in my computer locked as it started to rip one of the tracks. Complete hard lock, screen freezes, no keyboard, no mouse, and HD led goes solid. No BSOD.

    Now i thought maybe it was a fluke crash or something, but i rebooted and tried to rip just the track that it died on and it hardlocked again.

    Im really clueless here.

    I installed adaptec aspi and tried again, no change.

    Relevant hardware info
    motherboard: asus a7n8x standard
    DVDROM(used for ripping): Lite-on XJ-HD166
    Rounded IDE cables
    hard drive: WD 250jb

    Relevant software info
    Windows XP pro sp1a with all updates
    newest Nforce2 drivers (including IDE)
    Ripping program CDex 1.51
    codec lame 1.93.1
    All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

  • #2
    I think the first thing to try would be a different program. Try EAC.

    You should also check to see whether the CD's are "copy protected" in any way. That shouldn't have an effect, but it may.

    Note that the CD may have a n error on it that causes the program to hang. This can be pretty deadly in Windows, since the error is on a piece of hardware.

    - Steve

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    • #3
      I tried EAC, it doesnt hard lock my system, but it still wont rip the track in question. The CD i am ripping is burned, so im pretty sure copy protection isnt an issue.

      The program just hangs, and then I have to kill the process
      All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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      • #4
        Hmm, I think I've seen that. Try CDex v1.50
        Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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        • #5
          If nothing else works, you could try the following:

          Read the CD to an image file with for example Alcohol or CloneCD.

          Mount the image file to a DAEMON tools virtual drive.

          Set EAC or CDex to use that drive and rip..

          Works nicely for many "copy protected" discs as well.
          There's no place like 127.0.0.1

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