This occurs when the computer attempts to play a CD digitally as selected in the system configuration of Windows ME (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> CDROM -> [CD-ROM Drive] -> Properties -> Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device)

This bug does not occur with WMP7.

The bug occurs with the default CD plug-in (in_cdda.dll, tested only with Winamp 2.70 and 2.71) and Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver 6.03 (Only tested with the latest version, this one).

Specs:
Trigem Cognac Motherboard (BIOS rev. 1.01)
Intel Celeron 633 (Standard size Foxconn heatsink and fan)
Intel 810 chipset
Intel "Direct AGP" 810 graphics (PV 6.0)
128mb PC 100 SDRAM (2x64)
Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver 6.03
Primary (UDMA 66):
IDE 20gb 7200rpm Maxtor Hard Drive DiamondMax Plus (ATA 100 ready) [Master]
IDE 20gb "sub 7200" (not sure what that means, but it feels sluggish) rpm Quantum Fireball lct15 (UDMA 66) [Slave]
Secondary (UDMA 33):
IDE Samsung SD-612 12X DVD-ROM drive (UDMA 33) [Master]
IDE HP 9110i 8x4x32 Burner (UDMA 33) [Slave]
Samsung 3.5" Floppy Drive
Intel built-in AC97 sound card
Creative AudioPCI (ES1371) sound card
Cheap Jensen Earcup Microphone Headset
MidiLand MLi-130 36W [RMS] Speakers (4" woofer, 1" tweeter) - Black
MidiLand Crescendo 25W [RMS] Subwoofer (5.25" woofer)
56k Lucent Win Modem
TI OHCI 3 port Firewire card
Samsung 17" .20[horizontal]/.24[diagonal] dot pitch SyncMaster 700IFT (Max res. 1600x1200 at 75hz)
HP Deskjet 820Cse printer
Acer AcerScan 620U USB scanner
D-Link USB WebCam
emachines MicroATX case w/ Front USB and Game port
ilssan 120W MicroATX power supply
Tripp Lite BC Personal 200VA UPS
Belkin 4-port self-powered hub
emachines Internet Keyboard, Microsoft Scroll Intellimouse
Windows ME Retail w/ all "critical updates" installed


Solutions found [2]:

1) Remove the Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver
*2) Use the alternative CD Reader for Winamp plugin (in_cdreader.dll), http://www.url*****~copah

*Recommended

Comments?


Kwang

I noticed one time, when I took my CD drives off of my Ultra100 controller card and put them on the mainboard IDE controller, that the combination of my onboard IDE + DMA mode for the drive sometimes resulted in a lockup. I would suggest disabling DMA mode for the drive and see if that helps. I'm not sure what the purpose is of the Intel Ultra Storage driver is, since I've never heard of it.

hey!

The Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver (http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/storagedrivers/ultraATA/) is a driver that enables fast ultra ATA transfers.

It seems to speed up my Quantum hard drive in the hard drive benchmark in SiSoft Sandra Standard 2001.0.7.10 about 2 to 3 times. The driver does not seems to have much impact on my Maxtor hard drive though.

The CD Reader plug-in fixes the crashing I experienced and works reasonably okay, but it sometimes stutters on my Samsung DVD-ROM drive. CDs played in the HP play fine, as far as my ears can tell.
I guess it's just the drive, but it digitally extracts audio in secure mode in Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de) at ~3.5x fine.

Kwang

> I guess it's just the drive, but it digitally extracts audio in secure mode in Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de) at ~3.5x fine.

I take that back. Audio extraction either crawls along at ~0.5x or fails completely with read errors.

I think I'll be uninstalling the Ultra ATA driver :(

Kwang