LAME not working on old PC

[diji1]

Hi all,

My friend has a 450 K6-2 in a crap mobo with crap ram ( 133 running at 100 tho ) - ( no really, it's my friend :) ) and im trying to get his comp encoding.

For some reason, LAME just won't work now. It worked before for encoding cd's thru EAC, but then i installed gknot and lame no workee :( ..... tho i have no idea if gkot actually caused it to stop.

I run lame from command-line and it crashes immediately with the following message: "LAME caused invalid page fault in LAME.exe at [ some mem address that changes ]". This occurs if i execute lame with or without arguments.

It happens with lame 3.70 up to the latest alpha i have - ive tried most of the stable versions to no avail. I have also tried deleting all instances of lame.dll/.exe and replacing them.

I can't think what the issue might be - if anybody has *any* ideas could u pls post. Thanks for any help. :)

[MaTTeR]

LAME3.9x is more sensitive to overclocking and agressive memory timings according to the developers. Check your BIOS memory timings or don't overclock:)

The latest stable version is 3.91

[ChristianHJW]

... this is probably cause by the compiler that was used, the old AMD CPU maybe cant handle some of the commands .... but i am astonished to hear 3.70 doesnt work either .... you may ask the Lame experts ( Dibrom f.e. ) over at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org for help.

[diji1]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies... tho nothing worked ! This is quite a wierd problem. No worries tho as my friend upgraded to p3, should be encoding one of these days :).