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Dazz:
Ya, my first reply to you was a bit harsh.  I just saw that coming in and immediately blaming MAME or the FE's for issues is discouraging to the new users that would be checking out this thread.  I was just playing defense so the newer users wouldn't get discouraged.  Hell, I even went back and installed Maximus Arcade after 2 years of not using it to verify that it worked with the new version of MAME.  Being part of a software design team it's discouraging for people to blame something on software when its obviously not the software that's causing the issue.  So, my apologies.

If you are getting a BSOD, it shouldn't have anything to do with the FE, MAME or anything. BSOD's are almost always caused by hardware.  Your issue sounds like it is RAM related.  You might want to run your RAM through MEMtest and let it test for errors.  http://www.memtest.org/

Your IPAc shouldn't be causing the system to BSOD unless you have corrupted drivers.  Make sure that your all of your system drivers are updated.  You may also want to update the firmware/BIOS on your motherboard if it's an older one.  

I would suggest moving away from using P1 & 2 as exit though.  I had P1 & 2 set to exit on my cab as well, but this causes issues when you have 2 people playing a game.  If both people die and have to re-start and hit start at the same time it will kick them out of the game.

kaptainsteve:
Sorry, I didn't mean Blue, I meant Black Screen of Death.
Whooops....
No, the hard drive's fine.
There's some conflict going on that occurs exiting the running games when you hammer the esc keys...
I'm still working to figure it out... we'll see.
I'll get back on it.

Hoopz:
Check your Windows sticky keys or the ease of access keys (whatever it's called now).  Make sure Windows isn't doing something wonky based on the key presses.

Run command line Mame instead of MameUI.  That should be one of the first things to try.  Eliminate the MameUI frontend altogether and see how it does.

Or, the alternate route, is to test em all in Notepad and try various key combos to see what causes the issue.  1 player buttons v. it happening on two player games.

Or, reprogram the Ipac to use non-normal keys.  But that would be time consuming and a last resort.

kaptainsteve:
I installed game-ex and Mamewah, and they both work great and there is no more conflict.  Whatever it was I think it has something to do with the ipac and multiple/simultaneous button pushes with certain FE's cause conflicts when exiting a playing mame game.  But with MameWah, things have straightened out.

My vote for favorite is now MameWah.  

I use a cabinet, mamewah's simple and easy.

It boots right into the mame game menu, you just select a game and play, perfect.

It also has all the options you need for a cabinet type instal and to hide windoze.

Perfect, and thanks MameWah!~

BobA:
I used to use emuloader quite a while ago.  I see that it has been updated.

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