Voladjust would have been on low (hijack version not player version)
Crossfade off
EQ using my recently set up AutoEQ
Playlist was short (maybe 100 tracks - all Van Halen )
Using hijack's "Visual Restore" feature
No 3rd party apps
32MB RAM (stacked method but 100% reliable so far)

Can't think of much else to happen at boot time. The hang happened immediately. No sound at all - not even a little blip and I've run 3.00alpha7/8 ever since they came out without ever seeing the problem.
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Christian
#40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)