Lockup with USB Hard Disk

adf3 · 12th December 2006, 21:18

I can play a CD but when I turn on my external USB Hard Disk drive, Winamp PRO 5.32 locks up the system after about 60 seconds--it is consuming 98% of the cpu instead of the normal 2%-10%. Since I had previously been successful in ripping to the USB HD drive, I decided to return to an earlier version of Winamp PRO.

I solved the problem by uninstalling version 5.32 and going back to Winamp PRO version 5.24. This is somewhat confusing since I was able to use 5.32 for about 1 week before its strange behavior- - I can only guess that some â€œother feature/parameterâ€ got set that now prevents me from using 5.32? (I may have had a system crash with 5.32 running- - but re-installing 5.32 did not solve the problem?).

Since this took me 7 hours to solve I hope this may save someone else time, plus I hope a moderator will pass this to the Winamp Pro 5.32 team to see if they can find a fix.

Sawg · 12th December 2006, 21:52

Remove pmp_usb.dll from the Winamp/plugins folder.

The first time it saw the drive it sould have came up and asked if you wanted to treat it as a portable device, though.

adf3 · 13th December 2006, 06:05

Sawg, thank you for the tip.

Since Winamp is currently working and I am too busy with class work I will keep this on file for when I have time to play around with it.

12th December 2006, 21:18	#1
adf3 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 2	Lockup with USB Hard Disk I can play a CD but when I turn on my external USB Hard Disk drive, Winamp PRO 5.32 locks up the system after about 60 seconds--it is consuming 98% of the cpu instead of the normal 2%-10%. Since I had previously been successful in ripping to the USB HD drive, I decided to return to an earlier version of Winamp PRO. I solved the problem by uninstalling version 5.32 and going back to Winamp PRO version 5.24. This is somewhat confusing since I was able to use 5.32 for about 1 week before its strange behavior- - I can only guess that some â€œother feature/parameterâ€ got set that now prevents me from using 5.32? (I may have had a system crash with 5.32 running- - but re-installing 5.32 did not solve the problem?). Since this took me 7 hours to solve I hope this may save someone else time, plus I hope a moderator will pass this to the Winamp Pro 5.32 team to see if they can find a fix.

12th December 2006, 21:52	#2
Sawg Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 7,456	Remove pmp_usb.dll from the Winamp/plugins folder. The first time it saw the drive it sould have came up and asked if you wanted to treat it as a portable device, though. \| Brought to you by ^V ^C \| The one... the original... no seriously!

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13th December 2006, 06:05	#3
adf3 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 2	Sawg, thank you for the tip. Since Winamp is currently working and I am too busy with class work I will keep this on file for when I have time to play around with it.