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If the CD drive is locked in some kind of cycle, this may actually be the problem.
Is it stuck in the open position and trying to close and read??

You never finished your description of the current state of the CD drive. Is it still connected to the system with the tray off track? Does it whir, or the light come on?




good point. I didn't hear any noise or see any lights, but I went to device manager and disabled it anyway.
Still crashed.

Changed from Focusrite driver to M-audio driver.
still crashed.

changed from ASIO to MME
still crashed.

tested audio performance... it said I should be able to play 91 mono tracks at a time (problematic project has 7 tracks)

when I CTRL-ALT-DEL'ed to stop the freeze, I got a message saying "bbw2.exe is preventing windows from shutting down" ... but I'm not running BBW, just real band.

I clicked the DETAILS button and it said APPHANGB1, REALBAND.EXE, hang signature 92e5 hang type 0

when the PC rebooted, I got a blue screen of anger