Computer locks up playing music

[Mobius]

For the past month or so whilst playing music in Windows Media Player, my computer has been randomly locking up. The screen just freezes in place, and I can't move the mouse. My only option is to press the restart button. I'm not entirely sure what Sound thingy I have but here is my dxdiag thing.

What do I need to update to fix it? Cheers

 

[nath]

Could you go to Event Viewer (Control Panel>Administrative Tools) and look in the system subsection. It's sorted by time so look for the events nearest the time it crashed - you should see an error event.

If you do, paste it here and I'll check it out for you - I've not got much to do at work today

 

[Mobius]

There doesn't appear to be any crash errors recently which is strange because I know for a fact it happened an hour ago, and also at about 4am when I was asleep, because when I woke up it was frozen and the clock said about 4:15am.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9231/eventviewersr5.jpg

Next time it happens I'll check straight afterwards. It should be any time soon.

 

[Trem]

Does it do it on another media player? Try VLC and see if it happens on that, or maybe try Media Player Classic if you can find it.

 

[nath]

That's an eerily clean event log you've got there. Might be worth checking the application log too. If there's nothing there, could be a hardware fault. Software problems really should show up in the event viewer.

 

[Mobius]

There are a few bits in Application...most of them are related to game crashes, but I'm not sure what this one is.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: EventSystem
Event Category: (50)
Event ID: 4609
Date: 10/13/2006
Time: 08:34:19
User: N/A
Computer: BILLY-E73D809E
Description:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was C0000005 from line 44 of d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

(quite alot of those)

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I'll download Winamp and try that for a while, although I quite like WMP.

 

[MYstIC G]

I'd suggest you reinstall WMP, I do it when it gets a bit "quirky" and things normally seem to settle down.

What format music files are you playing?
Have you twiddled with the codecs recently?

 

[nath]

Actually, did you try what trem suggested? Does it happen in any other players?

Also, just out of interest, why do you use WMP for your music - it's awful :\

 

[Mobius]

I've moved over to Foobar now so I'll see how this goes. It's definitely alot less clutter, and easier to use...so I hope it goes smoothly.