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I have been using DVD Shrink (the version before the latest 3.2.0.15) for about 6 months
and thinsg were working fine up until last week. I tried shrinking a DVD Decrypter-made
archival backup of "Harry Potter 3" and during the analysing phase, my computer locked
up. It was weird though. My mouse locked up, then my computer froze. I tried upgrading
to the new version, same problem. I backed up stuff on my compy and blew away the
whole system, installing ONLY those software packages that I needed for archiving/making
back-ups. Same problem.
My current system configuration:
AMD 888MHz Duron
512 MB RAM
80 GM Maxtor 7200 rpm HDD
nVidia 128 MB video card
Sony 2X DVD burner (don't have my home PC in front of me to get the exact model, it is
older though and was working 100% fine in my old configuration) EDIT: DRU500AX
el-Generico PCI sound card
PS2 keyboard, mouse
NO external USB devices
Software I installed:
Windows XP with all current security updates but NOT SP 1 or 2 ( I didn't have SP 1 or 2
installed on my old machine either)
DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0
DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
Nero Professional 6.0
eMule Plus
Sound card driver
current nVidia driver
NO DVD driver (XP recognized what it was and I did not go to the Sony site to get the
dedicated driver...I had the dedicated driver installed on my PC before Shrink started to act
funny and before I blew away the hard drive)
My thoughts on this error:
1. Something hardware-related has started to go.
- perhaps the DVD drive is dying, or my power-supply is under-feeding my DVD drive
2. There are issues between Shrink and my video card.
- some kind of conflict between a driver and this software
I read through all of the other threads and I have not been able to find an answer as to
why this may be happening in my case. I have never used any other programs in
conjunction with Shrink and Decrypter to make back-ups of my DVDs, so I can't see how
adding one of the programs listed in some of the other threads would help. I have
NOTHING else installed on my PC other than what is listed above. Not even the standard
crap like MS Office. The computer is on a home network, and I have special port settings
on my router to handle eMule traffic from and to my IP address. I honestly can't think of
anything else to try, so ANY help I can get for this issue will gain you bags and bags of
Fritos and all the Red Bull you can handle! Thanks!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. May 2005 @ 09:26
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