CFG USB Loader 70 freezes loading games or returning to wii menu when no music is played at main menu...

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.CFG is not normally loaded and no music played: games are't loaded and the 
return to Wii menu is not possible, you must reset.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
If music is playing at main menu, then everything will run Ok
When no music is played at main menu, it freezes at game load (it plays game 
music banner normally) and you must reset the Wii

What version of the loader are you using?
70 release with Meta.xml steps for 248 load

What is your System Menu version (e.g. 4.2u)?
4.2U

What is your media type (HDD, USB Flash, SD/SDHC)?
WD 500 USB for wbfs and SD Kingston 1 GB for CFG USB Loader

How is your media formatted (wbfs, fat32, ntfs)?
fat32

Which cios are you using, which version, which base (222,249,...)?
(Please try both 249 and 222 with cfg-222.dol)
d2x IOS as recommended here: http://gwht.wikidot.com/d2x
Slot 248 - Base 56
Slot 247 - Base 57

Does it work with other loaders?
didn't try another than yours!
70v222 has the same issue

Does it work with the latest or an older version?
It worked fine with v59 222.dol, v61 222.dol hanged frequently

Please provide any additional information below.
You may play a game normally, exit to wii menu and when CGF USB reloads it may 
not play music and crash. I guess CGF USB doesn't load the correct way

It doesn't happens on specific games, it's random. Sometimes it works and 
sometimes don't loading the same game...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by basurase...@yahoo.com on 5 Aug 2011 at 9:14

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i get this issue too, i've tried downgrading to both 69 and 68

my drive is formatted ntfs

i'm booting the games off the same sd card as the loader is installed on.

Original comment by gandalf....@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2011 at 7:52

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This is also causing me problems. I thought it was a cIOS problem but 
discovered that if the background music is playing then it works fine!

Original comment by timwhit...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2011 at 10:48

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here too

Original comment by hielk...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2011 at 5:07

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Same here, hoping a solution will come. 

Original comment by ljo...@gmail.com on 25 Oct 2011 at 7:23

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Which USB are you all using?

Original comment by Pandora....@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2011 at 8:28

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I have the same issue...hope it gets solved soon. Using a WD 1tb Essential. 
Could be the Virtual CD WD puts on the drives.....though if thats the case it 
would probably be a constant problem.

Original comment by JackLOtt...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 4:49

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Try running Pimp My Wii (homebrew app) get the latest version then "run the 
test and fix problems".

Original comment by Pandora....@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 5:03

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Using a 320 GB Hitachi 2.5" external disk (USB powered). Formatted as WBFS by 
the CFG USB Loader.

Will try running Pimp My Wii and report back.

Original comment by ljo...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 8:43

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I know this is an old issue and I've had this issue too, my brother who works 
with computers says that its because the hard drive goes to sleep if you take 
too long to start cfg loader, the best way o solve this is to turn on both the 
HD and wii at the same time and load cfg loader, it works everytime. 

Original comment by briansms...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2011 at 4:22

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I'm having this problem as well. Running off a 16 gig USB drive formatted to 
WBFS by the CFG USB Loader. It just doesn't load games sometimes, which is 
really strange cause I'm swapping between CFG and USB Loader GX and they're 
both on and off.

Original comment by mr.be...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 10:25

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Have this same issue as well--only recently started happening, however. I just 
added lots of new games. So now that I guess I have over x number of games (I 
have between 70 or 80? ...but it seems like a lot less :P), there's a chance 
that CFG may take so long to load that the hard drive falls asleep, as one 
poster said...? Not sure...either way, my sister showed it to me the other 
day...I booted it up just now to research into the problem and to see which 
error messages I got on the black terminal (or whatever it's called on the Wii) 
screen, but it booted up fine--twice in a row now. So it must be a case of the 
hard drive occasionally "falling asleep," I guess? Don't see any Dev responses, 
so...? Maxtor external, 400 gb

Original comment by wad11...@gmail.com on 27 Nov 2011 at 7:10

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i had the same problem - i turned my external hd off and then on again - tried 
again and it worked. i'm using a generic HD enclosure with a maxtor

Original comment by adam.kir...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2011 at 6:13

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I am having the same issue with a FAT32 partition.

Original comment by bilinski...@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2011 at 12:05

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Please help! My CFG v70 freezes when installing games from my game CDs to the 
USB external HDD. 
Using the latest:
d2x IOS as recommended here: http://gwht.wikidot.com/d2x
Slot 248 - Base 56
Slot 247 - Base 57 

The USB drive is formatted FAT32 was able to install and backup a few of my 
games already but at least half of them the CFG froze just a bit into the 
install process.
I am using 4.3u wii system.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Original comment by ezrid...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2011 at 3:06

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try putting in a wbfs partition, its generally a little more stable (and each 
game takes less space). If it is freezing during the install process, check the 
disks themselves, they might have some nasty scratches. If install is still not 
working, just download the game (make sure you own a copy/the game is 
unavailable in your region... piracy, it's not cool)

also, run pimp my wii. It solves 95% of problems

Original comment by Pandora....@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2011 at 8:23

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Same problem here, tried loading games from two different USB hard drives 
(FAT32) and also a FAT32 SDHC.  All exhibit the same problem.  It does seem 
somehow tied to the presence of background music on the Configurable USB Loader 
page.  If I hear the music, all the games work fine.  If not, they almost 
always freeze at "booting Wii game."

It also seems completely arbitrary - on one boot, no background music and 
freezes.  Sometimes the second or third boot will fix the problem, other times 
it works correctly from the very first boot.  Quite odd.

Original comment by designbo...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2011 at 8:00

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Ran Pimp My Wii and let it install everything. No change, USB Loader still 
freezes randomly. Occasionally it works on the first try, but the norm is that 
we have to reboot the Wii about 3-5 times before it comes up with background 
music and is able to load games.

The drive is not going into sleep either. I can see it running and I can see 
USB Loader accessing it even when it comes up with no background music. The 
drive is a notebook drive with a WBFS partition.

I tried to fool around with switching IOS's, but both 248 and 249 exhibit the 
same problems.

I have attached two debug files. One from a broken session (no background 
music, and no loading games) and one from a working session.

Original comment by ljo...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2011 at 8:27

Attachments:

• [USB loader debug (crash).log](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/cfg-loader/issue-177/comment-18/USB loader debug %28crash%29.log)
• [USB loader debug.log](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/cfg-loader/issue-177/comment-18/USB loader debug.log)

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I had this problem too. Looking at the logs, the crash one seems to be when cfg 
usb loader tries to load ".tetris.mp3", and the one where the crash doesn't 
occur is when it loads "tetris.mp3". Could the problem be caused when cfg loads 
the .tetris.mp3 file, a hidden file created by OSX? This would account for the 
random nature of the crash as cfg loads a random mp3 file each time.

I fixed this by deleting the mp3 files from the SD card in sd:/usb-loader/

Original comment by m.vo...@gmail.com on 18 Dec 2011 at 4:16

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I had this problem too.  Previous poster has the solution.  If you use OSX with 
your sd card, you'll most likely find many files beginning with '._'  This link 
sort of explains why this happens: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20578

Original comment by etocon...@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2011 at 2:36

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That seemed to work! I put the SD card in the Mac and opened a terminal prompt 
to access it. If you're uncertain how to do this then follow this:

Open terminal
cd /Volumes/Name of your SD Card (for me it was "cd /Volumes/KINGSTON")
cd usb-loader
rm ._*

Then right click your SD card and eject it. Do not open the contents in a 
Finder window.

Original comment by ljo...@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2011 at 4:39

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This worked for me as well.  I used a Mac to copy some files; had some ._ files 
on the card, got rid of said, now everything seems to be shiny.

Original comment by designbo...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2011 at 8:34

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Also confirmed to work after removing the ._ files.

Original comment by eug...@xtreme-computers.net on 9 Jan 2012 at 3:19

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Also confirmed after removing .mp3. Did not have any hidden files otherwise 
including .DS so cannot comment on effect of those.

Original comment by burt.a...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2012 at 7:01

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I had this problem as well and it was driving me crazy.. Removing the 
tetris.mp3 file did the trick; now it loads like a champ! I did not have the 
"._" file mentioned above although I did copy the files to the SD cards from 
OSX.

So for anyone having issues with CFG Loader randomly freezing on loading, 
delete the tetris.mp3 file from your SD card!

Original comment by tleval...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2013 at 3:45

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"That seemed to work! I put the SD card in the Mac and opened a terminal prompt 
to access it. If you're uncertain how to do this then follow this:

Open terminal
cd /Volumes/Name of your SD Card (for me it was "cd /Volumes/KINGSTON")
cd usb-loader
rm ._*

Then right click your SD card and eject it. Do not open the contents in a 
Finder window."

How do you do this on a PC?  I have the same problem with CFG usb loader 
crashing randomly.

Original comment by bunny.lo...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2014 at 1:16

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When I'm playing my games of off cfg loader when the games go to black screen 
it freezes anyone can help?!

Original comment by dArKis...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2014 at 10:35

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Same thing here going to try the suggestions

Original comment by jpolack...@gmail.com on 18 Dec 2014 at 7:41