Players drop out for no reason all the time

Hi guys

I am running the following setup:

LMS 7.75 running on a Win7 netbook server (Samsung NC10) - latest LMS version didn't work so I'm on the latest Logitech release
Boom, Radio & Touch linking into LMS
Controllers: iPeng 9.2.1

The problem:
The players just seem to drop out from LMS for no reason. Restarting the router or the netbook gets everything running again, but not for more than a day. iPeng seems to see the server but won't bring up 'General Server Information'. The player selection screen in iPeng is also baffling - only showing one player (unconnected), or sometimes showing them duplicated:


In the meantime, the players act like they are connected - ie I can search through the music library on the machines, but whey simply won't play when I select a song. If I am playing internet radio when the system goes down in the background, the unit I am listening to keep streaming radio but will do nothing else. The only time I have actually observed the loss of connection actually take place was when I synced two machines & the whole thing dropped out. Other times, the system just goes down sometime during the day.

Any help..? My whole SB setup is basically unusable as it stands..!

thanks
marc

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