WMP/WMC causing system to freeze when playing audio

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Immortal Lobster

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Hey all, I'm having a frustrating week. I installed a barand new Phenom II 940 a few nights ago, and this screwed up my DRM files for my TV card and Media Center, story short, I wound up formatting and reinstalling.

But now I have an even more frustrating problem. When I use Media Player, or Media Center to play aufio files, or streaming audio, the whole system progressivly locks up, sound stops, dwm becomes unresponsive, and finally a little later the mouse finally freezes. there's no blue screen, no reboot, no nothing but a complete deafening silence that something has horribly failed.

All my drivers are up to date, system specs are as follows:
Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 (AMD NB770/SB600)
AMD Phenom II 940 (Stock settings ...unfortunatly)
4x2GB G.Skill PC8000
eVGA 8800GT
Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Music
Avermedia m780 TV tuner
2xSeagate 7200.10 RAID0 SATA2 AHCI NCQ
1xSeagate 7200.9 JBOD AHCI NCQ
1xSeagate 7200.7 PATA

All being governed by Windows Vista Ultimate x64

As I said, prior to this reinstall, no problems, I reinstalled Vista last night, everything was back up to date, and that probelm started, this afternoon I reinstalled again! everything back up to date.....problem didn't go away.

There's no way I can blame the CPU for this, it seems to software oriented an error for that, I would thing the CPU would rather splash me a BSOD before just progressivly freezing everything.

Anyway, any help/thoughts are much Appreicated
-Chris
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II 940 BE
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3
    Memory
    4x2GB G.Skill PC8000
    Graphics Card(s)
    1xeVGA 8800GT
    Sound Card
    Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xreme Music
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG Flatron W2252TQ + LG Flatron L1720P
    Screen Resolution
    1680*1050 + 1280*1024
    Hard Drives
    2xSeagate 7200.10 RAID0 AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.9 JBOD AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.2 PATA
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 500GB
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 320BG
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 500W + ePower Juicebox 350W
    Case
    AeroCool AeroEngine Jr. C-Class
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooling: ACFreezer 64 92mm Pro, intake/exhaust
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (First Gen)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Revolution
    Internet Speed
    1.5MB/384KB
I have, and it is not. RAm and CPu are normal and unphased.

I did however, swap over to onboard audio, Realtek. I' still cooking right along, so I think it may vvery well be with the latest Creative drivers, can't say I'm to surprised by that, but I'm not entirely sold on that.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II 940 BE
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3
    Memory
    4x2GB G.Skill PC8000
    Graphics Card(s)
    1xeVGA 8800GT
    Sound Card
    Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xreme Music
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG Flatron W2252TQ + LG Flatron L1720P
    Screen Resolution
    1680*1050 + 1280*1024
    Hard Drives
    2xSeagate 7200.10 RAID0 AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.9 JBOD AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.2 PATA
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 500GB
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 320BG
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 500W + ePower Juicebox 350W
    Case
    AeroCool AeroEngine Jr. C-Class
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooling: ACFreezer 64 92mm Pro, intake/exhaust
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (First Gen)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Revolution
    Internet Speed
    1.5MB/384KB
well I had the same problems with latest creative drivers (tho for me it was audiodg.exe that was the cause) I fixed this by disabling any special effects that my X-fi Fatal1ty added to the sound.

check if it helps.. (adding *possibly* helpful screenshot :p)

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My Computer

System One

Ok, I'll give that a shot, I don't think I ever disabled that as it hadn't been a problem in the past. I'll post back with the results. Because I really do like having full DTS/Dolby again, sounded better then Daniel_Ks driver pack.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II 940 BE
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3
    Memory
    4x2GB G.Skill PC8000
    Graphics Card(s)
    1xeVGA 8800GT
    Sound Card
    Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xreme Music
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG Flatron W2252TQ + LG Flatron L1720P
    Screen Resolution
    1680*1050 + 1280*1024
    Hard Drives
    2xSeagate 7200.10 RAID0 AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.9 JBOD AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.2 PATA
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 500GB
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 320BG
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 500W + ePower Juicebox 350W
    Case
    AeroCool AeroEngine Jr. C-Class
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooling: ACFreezer 64 92mm Pro, intake/exhaust
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (First Gen)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Revolution
    Internet Speed
    1.5MB/384KB
Unfortunatly that did not resolve the issue, it still froze up.


This is going from mildly annoying to moderatly irritating. Only Creative...Only.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II 940 BE
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3
    Memory
    4x2GB G.Skill PC8000
    Graphics Card(s)
    1xeVGA 8800GT
    Sound Card
    Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xreme Music
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG Flatron W2252TQ + LG Flatron L1720P
    Screen Resolution
    1680*1050 + 1280*1024
    Hard Drives
    2xSeagate 7200.10 RAID0 AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.9 JBOD AHCI NCQ
    1xSeagate 7200.2 PATA
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 500GB
    1xSeagate FreeAgent 320BG
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 500W + ePower Juicebox 350W
    Case
    AeroCool AeroEngine Jr. C-Class
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooling: ACFreezer 64 92mm Pro, intake/exhaust
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (First Gen)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Revolution
    Internet Speed
    1.5MB/384KB
well, I have vista 64 bit, a "creative x-fi xtreme gamer fatal1ty pro", a pehnom 9850 and the rest is unimportant. I also am listening to music, usually while browsing the internet an tehn it suddenly all freezes incuding sound. I can sometimes move the mouse for a while before that stops working too. i listen to music on media player also.
I don't know how to fix the problem
 

My Computer

System One

This sounds like DRM coming into play. I think what happened is that all your stuff was coded to your other system (yes changing the mobo/cpu will count as a new sys) and now you changed it and its freaking out. Try downloading and playing (or ripping) a new song.

~Lordbob
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5QC
    Memory
    2x2GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia GeForce 9500GT 1Gb
    Sound Card
    Mobo
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 206bw
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SP2514N ATA 250Gb 7200RPM
    Samsung [Model] 1Tb 7200RPM SATA2
    PSU
    Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W
    Keyboard
    Razer Tarantula
    Mouse
    Razer Lachesis
    Internet Speed
    not fast enough
Well, I don't know the details, but I remember another post about that I think...

Did you try getting a new song?

~Lordbob
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5QC
    Memory
    2x2GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia GeForce 9500GT 1Gb
    Sound Card
    Mobo
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 206bw
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SP2514N ATA 250Gb 7200RPM
    Samsung [Model] 1Tb 7200RPM SATA2
    PSU
    Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W
    Keyboard
    Razer Tarantula
    Mouse
    Razer Lachesis
    Internet Speed
    not fast enough
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