Toshiba LS-S1216: Problems Ripping Music

Hi All,

I picked up the Toshiba LS-S1216 labtop a month back (and added a much-needed 512 DDR2 RAM to the labtop) and got a new CD/MP3 deck for my car. Naturally, I want to be able to make MP3 CD's now to make use of the CD deck (and to shrink the ridiculous amount of CD's in my car).

I'm running into trouble, though. I try using Windows Media v10 to rip tracks from my Green Day American Idiot CD (the actual CD, not a copy) to my labtop. Windows Media rips the first two tracks to my harddrive, and on the third track gets to 99%. At this point, I can't move my mouse, CTRL+ALT+DELETE does nothing, and the CD-RW/DVD drive doesn't even open when I hit eject.

I think that maybe this is something that happens on rare occasions, so I do the only thing I can: hold down the power button for 8 seconds and release. Before the computer shuts off, a blue screen flashes for half a second. I saw something involving "memory dump", but the screen flashed too fast for me to see exactly what it said. Anyway, I hit the power button again, and turn the labtop back on.

Now I try to rip tracks from a TDK CD (which contains a copy of a New Found Glory CD) with Real Player (the latest version) . This time RealPlayer rips 3 tracks from the CD before my labtop freezes completely and does as I described earlier.

I try a few different CD-R's and use RealPlayer and Windows Media again. I experience the same results.

I haven't had any troubles copying music from my Toshiba L25-S1216 labtop to blank CD-R's and CD-RW's. As you can see, though, I'm having trouble ripping tracks from CD-R's to my labtop's harddrive.

Any ideas about what is causing this? Also, if I can clarrify anything, just ask.

-Thanks