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Originator:	Pino Carafa	Printable Version
Title:	Brrrr..... Windows Freezes

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From: Pino Carafa	On: 2006/09/15 13:34:15
This has happened a few times. Once it appeared to happen completely out of the blue, all I had done was boot up, and log in. I then went into the kitchen to prepare some food, came back in half an hour later or so, and found the system frozen. Had to hold the powerbutton and wait for the hard boot. Any other time, it's always been during video playback, e.g. while my daughter is watching some cartoony clip on www.nickjr.com or something. Suddenly the whole screen freezes, the speaker goes tatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatata (repeating the last bit of sound it received infinitely), and the computer stops responding to any input. Boot time. Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks P

From: stone5150	On: 2006/09/15 13:45:09
Sounds like a bad video driver. Punish your video driver soundly or get a new one. Try here

From: Pino Carafa	On: 2006/09/16 11:47:44
Ho hum. Actually, I think it may be the famous Cool 'n Quiet kicking in. It happened again yesterday and my wife told me she noticed the fan had slowed right down..... I've disabled it. Who needs it anyway. Let's see what happens.

From: Pino Carafa	On: 2006/09/16 14:50:09
Or perhaps... It's the keyboard. It's a USB keyboard but it came with one of them little converter plugs that allows you plug it in to the PS/2 plug. So I took the converter plug off and plugged the KB straight into the USB port. You know the way WinXP goes "plink-plonk" if you unplug a USB device? And it goes "plonk-plink" when you plug it back in? Well that kept happening. I'm sitting at the PC, minding my own business. "plink-plonk"...."plonk-plink". About once or twice every quarter hour. I then unplugged the keyboard, reattached the converter, plugged it into the PS/2 port and boom. WinXP froze. VERY interesting. I've just plugged in an old keyboard. Let's see how she goes.... If it doesn't freeze now, I've found the culprit.

From: rspahitz	On: 2007/01/23 00:41:23
I occassionally get arbitrary freezes...I think it's because my firewall prevents some things from going out and when the screensaver kicks in and Outlook tries to retrieve mail and soem other things run around to wherever they go when I leave, it SOMETIMES hangs and I can't get out of screensaver mode. Of course, that's only on my laptop so it may be hibernating but forgets how to get out. On my desktop, when I log out of one user to get to a different user I had running, if the other user has a ZoneAlarm message waiting for a response, the machine hangs. But if I just log out of the user then everything is fine. -- Well, this probably doesn't help, but maybe it will give you some ideas.

From: Pino Carafa	On: 2007/01/23 02:28:51
Nah. Was a dodgy motherboard. Sent it back and got a different one - different brand and all - haven't had the problem since. Welcome back, btw. :-)

From: rspahitz	On: 2007/01/23 07:57:14
glad it's good...and good to be back (although I was never gone...just waiting for notifs that never came. Now I know why.)

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