I have an old Hp Pavilion ze 1250 running Windows XP (sp2) with 1gb Ram.
I'm trying to convert some cassette tapes to digital (with Audacity).
My problem: When I try to record using Audacity, it records about 10 seconds and then hangs. When I click Stop and try to play the 10 seconds back, it freezes and won't play anything. (After that, even if I import an mp3 file to work on, it won't play that either.) It also causes all the sound to go off throughout the computer. Songs will "play" in WMP but there's no sound in the speakers or headphones. (The Microsoft logo music won't play either when I turn the computer off.) I've tried resetting the volume and checking if anything is muted. Nothing .
I restart the computer and everything is fine.....sound works and Audacity plays.....until I try to record again.
I thought that this was only an Audacity problem....until I tried to record 60 seconds through Sound Recorder. The exact thing happens. It records about 10 seconds of audio, then freezes and refuses to playback. All the sound goes off throughout the computer and nothing solves it except Restart.
My sound/audio device is Conexant AC-Link Audio.
The Sound Playback, Sound Recording, Voice Playback, and Voice Recording are all defaulted to HP VIA Audio.
I have updated the audio driver. Recording is enabled. Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks.
