Re: Lockups - just shoot me...
From: J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT] (jchornbe_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:33:25 -0600
If it hard locks then it's either a driver or hardware issue, but then it
sounds like you already know that. I recently lived through this same kind
of thing so I'll let you know what I found out. On my system, when I would
play certain games it would drop out to the desktop, sometimes after a few
seconds, sometimes after a few minutes. Also, sometimes it would hard hang
and sometimes it would just reboot all on its own. You never really knew
what you might get. No other applications would do this so it had to be a
software issue, right? Nope. I did a parallel install of Windows XP and it
did the same thing. I tried changing video cards, heat sinks, the power
supply, the CPU, everything, but I still had the same problem. To make a
long story short, it turned out to be a bad capacitor on the motherboard. I
replaced the motherboard and since then have experienced ZERO issues running
any game or application. The motherboard manufacturer was even nice enough
to repair my original board free of charge.
After fighting this more times than I can count and then experiencing it
myself, any time someone tells me their application or game randomly drops
to the desktop with no error, the system hard locks, or it spontaneously
reboots I always suspect a hardware issue first and I'm almost always right.
When I'm not then it's usually a third party driver issue.
-- J.C. Hornbeck, MCSE Microsoft Product Support NOTE: Please reply to the newsgroup and not directly to me. This allows others to add to and benefit from these threads and also helps to ensure a more timely response. Thank you! This posting is provided "AS IS" without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. "Tom Richards" <newsgroups@brainsturgeonSPAM.com> wrote in message news:%23ru2Y45EEHA.3576@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Posting an update on my ongoing dilemma: > > Machine is a Gateway Performance 1500, circa winter 2000, with a P4 1.5 cpu > and 384 MB of RDRAM. For the past 3 months it locks up. The lockups feature > no error messages, nothing in Event Viewer and no blue screen of death. I've > done 2 clean installs of XP Pro. I've had every piece of hardware out of the > machine (including the cpu, hard drive(s), sound and video cards) with the > exception of the nic card and the mobo. I have a replacement mobo on order > from Gateway and will get it in a couple weeks. I've disabled my second hard > drive too - no help. I replaced my usb printer cable - nope. I've replaced > my scanner cable and pretty much disabled the acanner...um, no. I've removed > the old dialup modem - no relief. I've tried every software fix imaginable. > > But a new symptom has presented itself and maybe, just maybe, someone can > post back with an answer? After a lockup, my visited links in IE have > returned to their unvisited color - a real nuisance. I'm ready to throw this > thing out the window. So is the link thing THE clue that will provide THE > answer? > > -- > > Tom Richards > email@brainsturgeonSPAM.com > > >
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