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| Thread ID: 53068 | 2005-01-06 18:31:00 | Winxp Computer Lockup | RonTheRipper (6801) | Press F1 |
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| 311357 | 2005-01-06 18:31:00 | Hi all. Within the last few months I have been experiencing lockups with my computer after about 10 to 12 hours of doing nothing on it. I let task manager run while this happened, and all it is showing is a sudden 100% spike in the CPU and then comes the lockup. I even ran task manager showing the running processes cause I thought I could catch it that way. The highest process at lock up was Explorer and it was only at 14,000 k. I reformatted 2ce, changed the video card, ran all sorts of CPU tests, hard drive tests memory tests, motherboard test, temp tests you name it. Temp in Bios says 40 celcius so its not a heat issue. I checked to see if it was in Power Options, but the Hard Drive shutdown is set to never. Its not virus or spyware related because it still does it after a reformat.I Checked this anyway using Norton, Adaware and spybot but nothing. I'm usually pretty good at figuring out problems like this but I cant figure this out for the life of me. I have a Pentium 3 733mhz 512 mem ram Maxtor 40 gig harddrive and a 80 gig (did scan-no errors) Geforce 4 3800 64meg Video Card And a TNT 32 meg (Tried both) QDI Mainboard Award Bios Sound Blaster Card DirectX 9c Any help on this matter would be appreciated. Thx Ron |
RonTheRipper (6801) | ||
| 311358 | 2005-01-06 18:39:00 | What video driver was installed at the time?? Or is installed right now? Nvidia drivers?? Not the Nvidia drivers from Windowsupdate?? Check Event Viewer. See what shows up here. What other programs are installed? Nortons AV/NIS? Zonealarm? Any firewalls at all? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 311359 | 2005-01-06 18:49:00 | Hi all . Within the last few months I have been experiencing lockups with my computer after about 10 to 12 hours of doing nothing on it . I let task manager run while this happened, and all it is showing is a sudden 100% spike in the CPU and then comes the lockup . I even ran task manager showing the running processes cause I thought I could catch it that way . The highest process at lock up was Explorer and it was only at 14,000 k . I reformatted 2ce, changed the video card, ran all sorts of CPU tests, hard drive tests memory tests, motherboard test, temp tests you name it . Temp in Bios says 40 celcius so its not a heat issue . I checked to see if it was in Power Options, but the Hard Drive shutdown is set to never . Its not virus or spyware related because it still does it after a reformat . I Checked this anyway using Norton, Adaware and spybot but nothing . I'm usually pretty good at figuring out problems like this but I cant figure this out for the life of me . I have a Pentium 3 733mhz 512 mem ram Maxtor 40 gig harddrive and a 80 gig (did scan-no errors) Geforce 4 3800 64meg Video Card And a TNT 32 meg (Tried both) QDI Mainboard Award Bios Sound Blaster Card DirectX 9c Any help on this matter would be appreciated . Thx Ron Which Sound Blaster and Whose?? What other ide drives/devices on what ide chanells at what positions . What/any usb devices . What lan/modem . This is possibly an intermittent conflict one of the hardest too long distance diagnose . D . |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 311360 | 2005-01-06 20:32:00 | What video driver was installed at the time?? Or is installed right now? Nvidia drivers?? Not the Nvidia drivers from Windowsupdate?? Check Event Viewer . See what shows up here . What other programs are installed? Nortons AV/NIS? Zonealarm? Any firewalls at all? Thx For Response . 1) Nvidia updates are from the Nvidia Home site . 2) I have at this point no Anti Virus Installed . nothing from Norton 3) I Checked Event Viewer and the last error I found prior to lockup was 12 . 41 am last night . The error was in the Service Control Manager . It says "The TVICHW32 service failed to start due to th following error . The system cannot find the file specified . " The lock up happened between 8 am and 11 am this morning . Nothing in event manager during those times . 4) No Fire Walls Thx Again |
RonTheRipper (6801) | ||
| 311361 | 2005-01-06 20:39:00 | Hi Thx drb1 for responding Its a Creative Sound Blaster Live Printer and Scanner are USB Have a Maxtor 40 gig in Primary Master and HP dvd writer as slave Have a Segate 80 gig on secondary and Asus CD writer as Slave Have a D-Link ethernet Card DFE-530TXS The lockup still happens with the Ethernet or modem unplugged THX again |
RonTheRipper (6801) | ||
| 311362 | 2005-01-06 20:40:00 | Hi all. Within the last few months I have been experiencing lockups with my computer after about 10 to 12 hours of doing nothing on it. I let task manager run while this happened, and all it is showing is a sudden 100% spike in the CPU and then comes the lockup. I even ran task manager showing the running processes cause I thought I could catch it that way. The highest process at lock up was Explorer and it was only at 14,000 k. I reformatted 2ce, changed the video card, ran all sorts of CPU tests, hard drive tests memory tests, motherboard test, temp tests you name it. Temp in Bios says 40 celcius so its not a heat issue. I checked to see if it was in Power Options, but the Hard Drive shutdown is set to never. Its not virus or spyware related because it still does it after a reformat.I Checked this anyway using Norton, Adaware and spybot but nothing. I'm usually pretty good at figuring out problems like this but I cant figure this out for the life of me. I have a Pentium 3 733mhz 512 mem ram Maxtor 40 gig harddrive and a 80 gig (did scan-no errors) Geforce 4 3800 64meg Video Card And a TNT 32 meg (Tried both) QDI Mainboard Award Bios Sound Blaster Card DirectX 9c Any help on this matter would be appreciated. Thx Ron |
RonTheRipper (6801) | ||
| 311363 | 2005-01-06 21:05:00 | I would put both hdd's on primary master/slave . BOTH cd's on secondary master/slave . Sometimes hdd's and cd's dont lke each other, if theyre on the same IDE connection . As one is usually faster than the other . Also, if u want to kill the TV thing error . Go to device manager . Select view / show hidden devices . Highlight that TV thing delete it then reboot . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 311364 | 2005-01-06 21:59:00 | I would put both hdd's on primary master/slave . BOTH cd's on secondary master/slave . Sometimes hdd's and cd's dont lke each other, if theyre on the same IDE connection . As one is usually faster than the other . Also, if u want to kill the TV thing error . Go to device manager . Select view / show hidden devices . Highlight that TV thing delete it then reboot . Thx for replying I killed the TV error thing thx As for the IDE connection I Have tried this both ways . It didnt matter Thx again |
RonTheRipper (6801) | ||
| 311365 | 2005-01-06 22:00:00 | Thx For Response. 1) Nvidia updates are from the Nvidia Home site. 2) I have at this point no Anti Virus Installed. nothing from Norton 3) I Checked Event Viewer and the last error I found prior to lockup was 12.41 am last night. The error was in the Service Control Manager. It says "The TVICHW32 service failed to start due to th following error. The system cannot find the file specified." The lock up happened between 8 am and 11 am this morning. Nothing in event manager during those times. 4) No Fire Walls Thx Again |
RonTheRipper (6801) | ||
| 311366 | 2005-01-06 22:10:00 | OK does anything under device manager show an X? or ? or ! ?? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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