Thread: Official Bug report

Its been covered....
The first time you load the mixer the grafix for it are loaded into the memory of the PC and from then since its already in memory it will load almost instantly...

Originally Posted by leon_id

If it is winnt/2000/xp, check Event Log (ControlPanel->Administative Tools). Sometimes OS writes something there before BSOD.

Ohhh I never thought of that... I will have to make sure to chk that next time it happens... I played it for a long time last night and even watched a full movie with it and it never happened but I am not holding my breath.... I will try to keep an eye on it and see if I can catch it... Thanks for the info

Originally Posted by Twizted

I have not isolated it yet but I seem to be having random reboots when MediaCar is running on my home system (for testing) and just a moment ago on my TV (multi Video cards) which I had MediaCar playing on at the end of a track I see a blue screen for a split second out of the corner of my eye and then my PC rebooted.. I have not been able to catch anything solid to tell you other than I "seen" the blue screen...

The (dark)blue screens in win2k/XP are different to the old (light)blue screens in win95/98/me. If it's 2k/Xp, it's actually a "stop error" screen.

Stop errors are very low level problems. If they happen randomly, it's usually due to flakey hardware on it's last legs e.g. bad RAM stick. If it happens regularly, it can be because of a major device driver error e.g. having VIA 4-in-1 drivers installed with a non-VIA chipset mobo did this to me once.

Found one small thing.. Not sure if its just due to playing a .m3u file but on shuffle I noticed it repeats songs alot... I can be skipping forward and it will play on that it pasted again within a few forward clicks... and I am talking about a 177 song playlist which should be able to be randomized resonably well..

.... Just tested and it done it on a playlist that was choosen from files out of a folder..
give it a try and see what happens..

OK I played MediaCar all night and when I work up I was at a login screen for windows meaning it rebooted... And I looked into the event viewer and found a reboot at around 4:25am which is below

Code:

Event Type:	Information
Event Source:	Save Dump
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	1001
Date:		1/14/2004
Time:		4:25:13 AM
User:		N/A
Computer:	DRAGON-TOWER-1
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000000a (0x00000030, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x804d0863). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011404-01.dmp.

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

Dont know if that is going to help any but that is all I see as far as a reboot last night or anything else that may have caused it..

I will get any more info you may need if possible...

If I load any album into the mp3 screen the tag names will happliy change when the song reaches the end and moves on to the next one.

But while I'm using the GPS system the tag names don't change when the song reaches the end of the track and the next one plays.

To explain futher when I start up the GPS system I'm on track 1 "1-Bad-MJ" but after listening to that it should display track 2's tag name but it doesn't, it still displays track 1 "1-BAD-MJ. After track 2 finishes track 3 starts playing still the tag name displayed is track 1 "1 -BAD-MJ". Also if I press the ff>> button then the sytem will not move to track 4 but instead it starts to play track 2 with the correct tag name of "2-Changes-MJ", wierd no?

Been told this is a bug so I'm listing it here.

If you dont shut down external programs, then exit mediacar the is a windows error, cant write memery etc.

Can the software close all external programs before it shuts itself down?

Thanks