Hard lock during CD ripping

[daemorok]

The other day I decided to start ripping my CD collection. About 2 or 3 CDs in my computer locked as it started to rip one of the tracks. Complete hard lock, screen freezes, no keyboard, no mouse, and HD led goes solid. No BSOD.

Now i thought maybe it was a fluke crash or something, but i rebooted and tried to rip just the track that it died on and it hardlocked again.

Im really clueless here.

I installed adaptec aspi and tried again, no change.

Relevant hardware info
motherboard: asus a7n8x standard
DVDROM(used for ripping): Lite-on XJ-HD166
Rounded IDE cables
hard drive: WD 250jb

Relevant software info
Windows XP pro sp1a with all updates
newest Nforce2 drivers (including IDE)
Ripping program CDex 1.51
codec lame 1.93.1

[spadnos]

I think the first thing to try would be a different program. Try EAC.

You should also check to see whether the CD's are "copy protected" in any way. That shouldn't have an effect, but it may.

Note that the CD may have a n error on it that causes the program to hang. This can be pretty deadly in Windows, since the error is on a piece of hardware.

- Steve

[daemorok]

I tried EAC, it doesnt hard lock my system, but it still wont rip the track in question. The CD i am ripping is burned, so im pretty sure copy protection isnt an issue.

The program just hangs, and then I have to kill the process

[Wombat]

Hmm, I think I've seen that. Try CDex v1.50

[Lucid]

If nothing else works, you could try the following:

Read the CD to an image file with for example Alcohol or CloneCD.

Mount the image file to a DAEMON tools virtual drive.

Set EAC or CDex to use that drive and rip..

Works nicely for many "copy protected" discs as well.