From: Gary on 03/17/2003
I am rumnning Win XP, and it has been trouble free for over a year. However in the past week, often the computer will freeze up when trying to start. It seems to freeze just as the Windows logo starts to appear. I can't get anything to move, even Ctrl Alt Del will not help, so I have to turn the computer off, or hit the reset button. The hard drive has plenty of free space in all partitions, and I have 256 K RAM.
I checked the event viewer in the Contrrol Manager, and got a message about "mtRate failed, cannot find the file specified." But it did not give me the name of the missing file.This is an intermittant problem, but seems to be getting more frequent. I don't want to turn the computer off, however it sometimes freezes up after operating for an hour or so. I cannot pin-point any specific program that is operating when it freezes, although I notice that it sometimes does it when I connect to the Internet (I have a cable connection). But mostly it is just at startup. I haven't seen this problem posted, although it may be something that has happened to others. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Gary
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From: Rick on 01/13/2006
I would like to know if you found what uses mtRate in device manger as I am locking up the same way. The last hardware installed was pci usb 2.0 firewire ports.
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From: graham on 03/25/2003
your problem sounds the same as mine, it started out by freezing when i tried to use media player a couple of months ago. Now it is unbearable and freezes whenever i switch on the PC. my current thinking is that it is connected to my graphics card (MX440) and i have found a similar thread on this site. going to try and reload the drivers to see if it fixes it. what graphics card have you got?
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From: slink9 on 03/18/2003
This is one site that supports this file,http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?mrtrate download it, uncompress it, and view the documentation that comes with it so you know which path to copy the file into, Slink
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