Re: Solved My everlasting XP freezing problem
From: jazz (aprilo9_at_hotmail.com.nospam)
Date: 04/25/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:56:04 -0400
that sounds like a wel thought out cause/effect case but it is more likely
that it was caused by a bad driver for the cdrom or the ide control. some
cdrom/dvd/burner manufactureres don't always follow the atapi standard and a
misguided respons from the ide chanel could have made the cdrom search for
media. windows is funny in that it will stop everythign when you insert a
cd in the drive. try is some time. place a cdrom in the drive and wait for
autorun to kick up and try opening other windows or do somethign else at the
same time. i'm guessing that if you disable the auto insert notification or
kept a cd in the drive, it would have stop doing it. any ways good to see
you got it working. if you run accross it in the future, give that a try
before you swap things around. it might save you some time.. then again if
it doesn't work you already know the solution.
"boaz" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eL1pRBoKEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> He is confused.
>
> I am gussing my XP freezing problem is related to the noisy signal
generated
> within the IDE interface due to the fact that the clock generated for the
> UDMA5 device (i.e. my HD) is too fast causing too much noise in the chain
> causing the CD drive to fail. And somehow the controller or the software
> driver is trying to recover from the noise and put itself in a loop. And
XP
> doesn't know what to do and waits for the controller to respone. When I
push
> the eject button, the CD may generate some sort of "cancel" signal to put
> the controller or the software driver to exit the loop. So, XP exits the
> wait stage and comes back to life.
>
> It is either this or the unknown virus that has been causing all my
freezing
> problem removed itself once the date passed last Saturaday.
>
> But I really don't care anything for now. I have been running XP for weeks
> without any freezing problem at all.
> And Windows Explorer is not crashing anymore.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Mike" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:betic.98984$Gp4.2365587@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > You are referring to access times, and not spin speed, aren't you?
> >
> >
> > "Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
> > news:4089c226$1_3@127.0.0.1...
> > > boaz wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I may have solved my XP-freezing-with-no-reason problem.
> > > > I thought it was the memory problem but no...
> > > > I thought it was the sound card but no..
> > > > I thought it was the motherboard but no...
> > > > I thought it was the ACPI thing but no..
> > > > I thought it was the UDMA thing but... Aha!
> > > >
> > > > It turns out that when XP is freezing, if I push the eject button
> > > > from the CD-ROM driver, XP will un-freeze and come back to life.
> > > >
> > > > I have 1 DVD ROM drive, 1 CD writer, and a 160 Gig hard disk.
> > > > The DVD and the hard disk are on the primary IDE together, and the
CD
> > > > writer is on the secondary IDE by itself.
> > > >
> > > > So, instead of plugging the DVD with the hard disk, I plug the DVD
> > > > with the CD writer on the secondard IDE.
> > > >
> > > > It has been 2 days before I have any freezing problem.
> > > > I am thinking there must be some sort of timing problem with the
UDMA
> > > > thingie.
> > > > The BIOS says I have a UDMA5 hard disk, and the two DVD/CD drive are
> > > > UDMA2. I guess UDMA5 can't mix with UDMA2.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> There is no answer.
> > > >> There has not been an answer.
> > > >> There will not be an answer.
> > > >> That IS the answer!
> > > >> And I am screwed.
> > > >> Deadline was due yesterday.
> > >
> > > It is never a good idea to have an optical slaved to a hard drive.
> Always
> > > put opicals on separate channel. A CD-ROM drive spins much faster than
a
> > > hard drive and will slow things down.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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