Hi all, mate was having a problem with his PC locking up in itunes & VLC so I replaced the motherboard, CPU, HDD and RAM with parts I had spare, apparently the problem persists, have got him to describe it as best he could as we are now in different cities, apologies for the email >>>,any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers Krähe.
Cheers Krähe.
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This problem is iTunes and VLC crashing intermittantly.
> > Originally i had a power surge that fried my power supply and my hard
> drive.
> > I replaced these and everything worked fine until, whilst watching
> music videos, iTunes stopped working and would loop through all the
> videos without starting any.
> > VLC would start a movie, but if you paused or ffwd it would stall and
> flicker.
> > Normally a restart would fix this.
> > I then gave it to my mate who put in a new motherboard, another hard
> drive, reinstalled Windows with the 64bit disc and it ran with no
> problem.
> > When i got it back it took about a day to play up again.
> > Same thing happened but a reboot wouldn't fix it. It came good by
> itself. Then crash again.
> > So i got a new graphics card.
> > Now everything in the PC has been changed.
> > Same thing happened after about 2 hours of watching videos through
> ITunes.
> > Again VLC went out in sympathy.
> > The PC will play movies in WMPlayer, and all the Music Videos with
> Quick Time, no problems.
> > I also downloaded and played the new Doom3 whilst iTunes and VLC
> weren't working, and youtubed no problems.
> > Task manager is the only way to stop either running. If it's iTunes
> that you are quitting, the songs it is trying to play also appear as "no
> response" in the Task Manager window. And the process takes about a
> minute to end.
> > But again they wouldn't start again after a reboot and eventually came
> good on it's own and continued working fine until i shut the PC down, 2
> hours later.
> > This has been going on now for over a year and in that time i have
> reinstalled Windows and iTunes more times than i could remember.
> > I have googled until i have no more google left in me. I have tried
> everything that is possible that I've read and nothing seems to work.
> > Let alone find a post or something that relates to both VLC and ITunes
> not responding at the same time.
> >
> > Under this current build, all new parts, i have -
> > Reinstalled ITunes twice.
> > Stopped all startup programs in MsConfig. To see if there was any
> conflict.
> > Found no errors in event log.
> > Ruled out corrupt files, music and movies, from my Mac to PC as i also
> have a Windows Laptop that runs my iTunes music and movies through VLC
> no problems.
> > It is annoying that this problem has persisted through a rebuild, any
> help would be appreciated.
> > Originally i had a power surge that fried my power supply and my hard
> drive.
> > I replaced these and everything worked fine until, whilst watching
> music videos, iTunes stopped working and would loop through all the
> videos without starting any.
> > VLC would start a movie, but if you paused or ffwd it would stall and
> flicker.
> > Normally a restart would fix this.
> > I then gave it to my mate who put in a new motherboard, another hard
> drive, reinstalled Windows with the 64bit disc and it ran with no
> problem.
> > When i got it back it took about a day to play up again.
> > Same thing happened but a reboot wouldn't fix it. It came good by
> itself. Then crash again.
> > So i got a new graphics card.
> > Now everything in the PC has been changed.
> > Same thing happened after about 2 hours of watching videos through
> ITunes.
> > Again VLC went out in sympathy.
> > The PC will play movies in WMPlayer, and all the Music Videos with
> Quick Time, no problems.
> > I also downloaded and played the new Doom3 whilst iTunes and VLC
> weren't working, and youtubed no problems.
> > Task manager is the only way to stop either running. If it's iTunes
> that you are quitting, the songs it is trying to play also appear as "no
> response" in the Task Manager window. And the process takes about a
> minute to end.
> > But again they wouldn't start again after a reboot and eventually came
> good on it's own and continued working fine until i shut the PC down, 2
> hours later.
> > This has been going on now for over a year and in that time i have
> reinstalled Windows and iTunes more times than i could remember.
> > I have googled until i have no more google left in me. I have tried
> everything that is possible that I've read and nothing seems to work.
> > Let alone find a post or something that relates to both VLC and ITunes
> not responding at the same time.
> >
> > Under this current build, all new parts, i have -
> > Reinstalled ITunes twice.
> > Stopped all startup programs in MsConfig. To see if there was any
> conflict.
> > Found no errors in event log.
> > Ruled out corrupt files, music and movies, from my Mac to PC as i also
> have a Windows Laptop that runs my iTunes music and movies through VLC
> no problems.
> > It is annoying that this problem has persisted through a rebuild, any
> help would be appreciated.
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