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    Problems with latest beta and XP

    Hi...

    I know it's really bad form to reply to one's own email... -- but, having
    spent the last 90 minutes trying out various things, I can report the
    following:

    * A clean install (after uninstalling) of 5.3.0b1 works fine (once all my
    settings/preferences have been re-entered) until I reboot... -- I then
    get the same symptoms as below.

    * A clean install of 5.2.1 will 'survive' rebooting the XP box; and seems
    to work fine with firmware 31.

    * However, if I try to install 5.2.1 without uninstalling 5.3.0b1, then I
    get exactly the same symptoms as below again....


    Therefore, I'm now running SlimServer 5.2.1, with firmware 31 on both SBs;
    and all is hunky-dory!

    HTH someone...
    --
    - $.

    Stephen R Ward
    <srward (AT) srward (DOT) com>


    On 5/8/04 10:16 am, "Stephen R Ward" <srward (AT) srward (DOT) com> wrote:

    > Hi!
    >
    > I wondered if anyone else was having problems with 5.3.0b1 and XP (5.1.2600
    > SP1)?
    >
    > Slimserver installed just fine, yesterday (over 5.2.1), and was working just
    > fine (with 2 SqueezeBoxen and one copy of the latest SoftSqueeze...) until
    > this morning: when I got up, and found both Squeezebox displays blank. Ugh.
    >
    > I usually have SlimServer start up automatically when I boot XP (which is
    > very rare -- as the system only runs SlimServer and Apache... -- and is
    > therefore usually up for months at a time...), and previous versions have
    > been running just dandy (...I only upgraded because I've ordered the new
    > display ;-). However, starting it manually (after reinstalling a couple of
    > times), I get the following:
    >
    > * Both SlimServer.exe and Slim.exe try to start up...
    > * SlimServer.exe reaches 7,612 K; whilst Slim.exe gradually crawls to
    > 55,204 K (or thereabouts), and then vanishes -- giving an error
    > signature of:
    >
    > AppName: slim.exe
    > AppVer: 0.0.0.0
    > ModName: perl58.dll
    > ModVer: 5.8.1.807
    > Offset 00086b4a
    >
    > ...leaving SlimServer.exe running at 10,608 K, and a "page cannot be
    > displayed" error in the browser interface (...not to mention "Problem:
    > lost contact..." messages on my SBs, should I try to power them up).
    >
    >
    > I'm primarily a Mac user, so apologies if I'm missing something
    > obvious(!?!): but the XP box (2.8GHz Pentium 4; 1Gb of RAM; lots and lots of
    > disk-space...) has been immensely stable until now -- most of the time just
    > streaming 320k MP3s... -- so it looks (to my untutored eye, at least ;-)
    > that there's suddenly something wrong caused by the latest install, rather
    > than anything else....
    >
    > Anyone care to suggest anything? If necessary, I'll go back to 5.2.1 -- but
    > wasn't sure if this would work with v.31 of the firmware?
    >
    > Cheers...
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