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Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

I was ripping some mp3's today using EAC and the newest LAME, and my PC crashed!  I had never before had LAME cause a program fault.  In any case, here's a screenshot of what LAME looked like immediately after the crash.

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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I just ripped some 50 CDs with EAC and lame390.2 - no probs (still running 98SE)

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Yeah, I'd have to say this looks like overclocking.  LAME is very sensitive to overclocking, much much more so than most programs.  I've seen (and actually experienced it myself) where you can have an overclocked system which appears perfectly stable in everything else, but when running LAME you will get errors like these.

If your system isn't overclocked though, maybe you have some bad ram or something.  It could also be that you have inadequate cooling for your processor.

There should be no "normal" problems like these with 3.90.2 or my compile and this should be the case across a wide spectrum of processors/files/etc.

Could you give us more information about your system specs?

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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My system is basically as follows:

CPU = AMD Athlon XP 1600+
RAM = 256 MB X 2 PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Motherboard = MSI K7T266 Pro2
Hard Drive(s) = 45 GB and 20 GB
Sound = SBLive Value
Video = ATI Radeon 64M VIVO
CD / DVD = TDK Velo CDR/RW 24/10/40X and Artec 16X DVD
Network = Acer 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card
OS = Windows XP Professional

As far as overclocking, NONE of my components are overclocked.  Everything is set to run @ spec.

For a more detailed system summary (courtesy of SiSoft Sandra) please go here:

http://people.mw.mediaone.net/lklenk/sysrpt.htm

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Hrmm.. well I don't know what you tell you.  That looks like a problem due to a processor overheating (perhaps being overclocked, but if you said not it could just be due to inadequate cooling), or maybe faulty ram.  I really can't think of anything else, and I've never seen my compile do this on any of the machines I've tested on, across a p2, p3, athlon, and p4.. not to mention the others that have downloaded it and so far haven't reported any problems.

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Well... I've only had that problem once.  Since then I have ripped around 15 albums without ANY problems.  Sound quality is top notch by the way...

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Hi Drew

Drew, i cannot recognize why you cannot encode files on your system, because my friends system is nearly the same as yours :


CPU = AMD Athlon XP 1600+
RAM = 256 MB X 2 PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Motherboard = MSI K7T266 Pro2
Hard Drive(s) = 20 Gb
Sound = OnBoard
Video = Inno3D GeForce 2 Ultra Tornado
CD / DVD = ?? / ??
Network = None
OS = Windows 98 SE

and we have encoded already a lot of cd's with EAC + Lame 3.90 and 3.90.2 --alt-preset standard

If someone is interested : We have even overclocked his CPU from 1400 to 1553 Mhz and encoding was always still fine (and quickly  ).
For the MSI Mainboard, there is a great overclocking tool on the Mainboard driver CD. It overclokes the CPU step by step until it crash, then it goes an amount back. The Best : you can turn the Mhz Boost on and off anytime, by pushing a button called 'Turbo' in the application (you don't even have to go to the Bios to do this, you Boost it when you want it to  )

ahm sorry i'm off topic 

well, Drew I really don't know why your Lame is crashing :confused::confused:


Cya

EDIT : Dibrom has right, i think it's a faulty ram, too (or overheating of the ram).
oww  you have to look in your Bios, it could be, that your latency time of your ram is to low  try to set it to 3 instead of 2 or 2.5
or set the ram managing to SPD, it's safer so.
---TarX---

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Hi Drew 

Drew, i cannot recognize why you cannot encode files on your system, because my friends system is nearly the same as yours


Whoa now... I have only ONCE EVER had LAME crash on my system.  Since then I have encoded 20 albums WITHOUT any incident.  To say that I am unable to use LAME would be a false statement.

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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AWW

Come down

im updated now  :reading:


Cya
---TarX---

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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AWW 

Come down 

im updated now 


Cya





hehehe.... yeah... I got a bit excited there. 

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Originally posted by MrDrew
My system is basically as follows:

CPU = AMD Athlon XP 1600+
RAM = 256 MB X 2 PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Motherboard = MSI K7T266 Pro2
Hard Drive(s) = 45 GB and 20 GB 
Sound = SBLive Value
Video = ATI Radeon 64M VIVO
CD / DVD = TDK Velo CDR/RW 24/10/40X and Artec 16X DVD
Network = Acer 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card
OS = Windows XP Professional

As far as overclocking, NONE of my components are overclocked.  Everything is set to run @ spec.


Fairly odd, IMO. I have a system almost as yours (Mobo, CPU, OS). No problems with aggressive memory timings.

I don't think it is faulty RAM as it should show up as some kind of page errors. And overheating should not be it from as far as I can see from your systemlink, so I have to ask: Do you by any chance use an IBM drive? Their GXP75 (and 60) isn't exactly what you would call bulletproof

Regards, stoff

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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I have a Celeron 400 running at 500 MHz for two years now. All this time I have been using LAME (and other encoders) without any problems.

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Speek,

That's an Intel Celeron - it works. I run a Intel PIII 450@580 without any problems.

It's funny how people praise the cheap & high clock AMD CPUs, and at the same time the AMD people are the ones with unstability and other oddities. I am not referring to this case, but in a general fashion. Intels might be expensive, but if you give a damn about stability then there really is no choice.

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Intels might be expensive, but if you give a damn about stability then there really is no choice.


B U L L S H I  T.

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

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Originally posted by lucpes
 

B U L L S H I  T.


I N D E E E D
 

Odd behavior with Lame 3.90.2 and EAC

Reply #16 –
I have built many systems based on both Intel and AMD and I would have to say I haven't found either one to be more stable than the other.

If you want more bang for your buck, there is only one choice!

john33