ITunes shuts down at seemingly random times (read others like this before)

Question

I have a Windows 8 PC, 11.0 up to date version.  I was getting a system sound at random times and concurrently the file would stop playing.  Here is what I did .. I changed the system sound for "Device Connect" and made it something totally recognizable.  Typical email sound and other error sounds come out and there is no problem.  I think it is something linked to "Device Connect".  Is it hardware or is iTunes battling for connection or what?  When it happens I am able to close and restart iTunes .. but this is ridiculous. Anybody got a thought, direction or idea on what this might be?

Answer 1

A hard drive that's almost filled to capacity can have problems, especially if there's a lot of fragmentation. The drive could also have a hardware problem that's causing the read/write heads to stick, causing a system hang. If you want to continue using this Mac, I'd install a larger hard drive (120 GBs is the max. retail size that's recognized at full capacity). A worst case scenario would be a flaky processor. I had a G3-333 MHz ZIF processor in a beige G3 that would act up and cause system hangs. Once I replaced it, the quirky behavior disappeared. Unfortunately, your iMac's processor is soldered to the processor card. Unless you really want to keep using it, you should decide if it's worth investing any money trying to troubleshoot the problem.