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[PJ DiSanti]

I'm trying to rip some mp3's from a few disks I have, however two things
occur when I try, no matter which ripping software I use.

First, it estimates 20 minutes to rip a 2 minute track, then 40 minutes for
the same 2 minute track, then it seems to hang so, secondly, I ctrl-alt-del
and see that CPU is at 100% and everything is sluggish.

I've tried this with various disks, cleaned the disk and the lens, rebooted
the machine several times, but the problem is still there.

I'm not at all sure of the cause but it's very frustrating and has been
consistant for months now. When I talked to HP months ago they recommended I
reinstall the drivers for the CD-Rom, which I recently did, I reinstalled
everything in my yearly cleanup and recover.

Same issue, anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

PJ

PS, I have an HP Pavilion laptop AMD Athelon 1.5 gig, 512megs on Home
edition XP with all Windows Updates.

 

[purplehaz]

You left out the most important piece of information. What program are you
using to rip the cds to mp3?

 

[PJ DiSanti]

I've used several, FreeRip, Windows Media 9.0, Mpegware CD Ripper, CDex,
Musicmatch... same results for all.

PJ

 

[purplehaz]

Try updating the drivers if available instead if reinstalling the old ones.

 

[PJ DiSanti]

Well, previous to this last clean and reinstall I had the most updated
drivers, same issue, however I haven't reinstalled the newer drivers since
the reinstall.

I'm downloading it as I type, if this doesn't work, what else could be the
issue?

PJ

 

[purplehaz]

Well if its not the drivers, then I really don't know. XP does do ripping
just fine and if you did a clean install that eliminates windows as the
prob. That would point me to a physical hardware issue with the drive or
some installed third party software that is causing this. Depending on how
bad this bugs you, you could do a clean install of xp, turn on the firewall,
install no programs at all, update the drivers, then try it and see if maybe
some software your installing is messing with it. Otherwise maybe try
another drive to see what happens.