Guest nirwana@gmx.li Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Hi, when I "work too fast" under heavy system load, i.e. I switch between task windows, open and close browser tabs and move the mouse cursor rapidly across the screen I experience random system lockups (system hangs or system freezes). I can only press the power switch and restart the system. It happens about once in 48 hours but it happens out of a sudden, I've never found an error message close to the crash time in the logfiles. I am running XP-pro SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ Fujitsu Amilo K 7600 Laptop PC with 1GB of RAM Video: KN266 integrated S3 Prosavage 32 Mbyte shared memory, true color Audio: 18-bit stereo audio (AC97) Pointing device: Synaptics Touchpad, SynTPLpr.exe running but not SynTPEnh a D-Link Airplus DWL-G650+ wireles adapter sits in the Cardbus slot (PC-Card, PCMCIA) Hardware Manager shows a clean tree without warnings. My web browser is Firefox 2.0.0.6. I always have at least 2 dozen browser tabs open so Firefox consumes up to 350-400 MB of my 1000 MB RAM. I tried to run msinfo but I get the Windows Help window. I have changed Windows' performance options to give background services more CPU time and to give programs more memory. I feel that helped a little. But Firefox appears a bit lame now and the freezes still occur. What else should I try? Best regards, Dieter
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load Ever run any type of Registry Cleaner on the PC ? It's MSInfo32.Exe that you should be invoking. I wouldn't toggle the enable bit for "LargeSystemCache" on a notebook PC. Hardware listing in Device Manager won't show 100%, unless you add a System Environment Variable "DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_Devices" and set it's value = 1 and then tic/check "Show Hidden Devices" in Device Manager. I'd concentrate on the Synaptics TP driver as the cause. Sometimes you can use the "Generic" latest driver from Synaptics' website instead of the one provided by your OEM. The mouse pointer issue might also be related to your Video driver so a check for the latest one is also a good idea. The Synaptics generic OS drivers found at: http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm <nirwana@gmx.li> wrote in message news:1188049507.452703.136630@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > when I "work too fast" under heavy system load, i.e. I switch between > task windows, open and close browser tabs and move the mouse cursor > rapidly across the screen I experience random system lockups (system > hangs or system freezes). I can only press the power switch and > restart the system. > > It happens about once in 48 hours but it happens out of a sudden, I've > never found an error message close to the crash time in the logfiles. > > I am running XP-pro SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ Fujitsu > Amilo K 7600 Laptop PC with 1GB of RAM > > Video: KN266 integrated S3 Prosavage 32 Mbyte shared memory, true > color > Audio: 18-bit stereo audio (AC97) > Pointing device: Synaptics Touchpad, SynTPLpr.exe running but not > SynTPEnh > a D-Link Airplus DWL-G650+ wireles adapter sits in the Cardbus slot > (PC-Card, PCMCIA) > > Hardware Manager shows a clean tree without warnings. > > My web browser is Firefox 2.0.0.6. I always have at least 2 dozen > browser tabs open so Firefox consumes up to 350-400 MB of my 1000 MB > RAM. > > I tried to run msinfo but I get the Windows Help window. > > I have changed Windows' performance options to give background > services more CPU time and to give programs more memory. I feel that > helped a little. But Firefox appears a bit lame now and the freezes > still occur. > > > What else should I try? > > Best regards, > Dieter >
Guest ManyBeers Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 RE: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load "nirwana@gmx.li" wrote: > Hi, > when I "work too fast" under heavy system load, i.e. I switch between > task windows, open and close browser tabs and move the mouse cursor > rapidly across the screen I experience random system lockups (system > hangs or system freezes). I can only press the power switch and > restart the system. > > It happens about once in 48 hours but it happens out of a sudden, I've > never found an error message close to the crash time in the logfiles. > > I am running XP-pro SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ Fujitsu > Amilo K 7600 Laptop PC with 1GB of RAM > > Video: KN266 integrated S3 Prosavage 32 Mbyte shared memory, true > color > Audio: 18-bit stereo audio (AC97) > Pointing device: Synaptics Touchpad, SynTPLpr.exe running but not > SynTPEnh > a D-Link Airplus DWL-G650+ wireles adapter sits in the Cardbus slot > (PC-Card, PCMCIA) > > Hardware Manager shows a clean tree without warnings. > > My web browser is Firefox 2.0.0.6. I always have at least 2 dozen > browser tabs open so Firefox consumes up to 350-400 MB of my 1000 MB > RAM. > > I tried to run msinfo but I get the Windows Help window. > > I have changed Windows' performance options to give background > services more CPU time and to give programs more memory. I feel that > helped a little. But Firefox appears a bit lame now and the freezes > still occur. > > > What else should I try? > > Best regards, > Dieter > This exact symptom happened to my Sony laptop, which also was running a D-link wireless card(DWLG-630). It always happened when i was online. So about 4 months ago i got a ethernet cable and plugged it into my Actiontec Modem/router and used that instead of the wireless card and i have eleminated lockups. Run an ethernet setup for awhile and see if that makes any difference. When you installed your card did it use unsigned drivers like mine did? . You can try using a different wireless utility to configure the card. Use WZC utility instead of the D-link utility or vice versa. My lockups were somehow related to my wireless card. Good luck
Guest Bill Sharpe Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load nirwana@gmx.li wrote: > Hi, > when I "work too fast" under heavy system load, i.e. I switch between > task windows, open and close browser tabs and move the mouse cursor > rapidly across the screen I experience random system lockups (system > hangs or system freezes). I can only press the power switch and > restart the system. > > It happens about once in 48 hours but it happens out of a sudden, I've > never found an error message close to the crash time in the logfiles. > > I am running XP-pro SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ Fujitsu > Amilo K 7600 Laptop PC with 1GB of RAM > > Video: KN266 integrated S3 Prosavage 32 Mbyte shared memory, true > color > Audio: 18-bit stereo audio (AC97) > Pointing device: Synaptics Touchpad, SynTPLpr.exe running but not > SynTPEnh > a D-Link Airplus DWL-G650+ wireles adapter sits in the Cardbus slot > (PC-Card, PCMCIA) > > Hardware Manager shows a clean tree without warnings. > > My web browser is Firefox 2.0.0.6. I always have at least 2 dozen > browser tabs open so Firefox consumes up to 350-400 MB of my 1000 MB > RAM. > > I tried to run msinfo but I get the Windows Help window. > > I have changed Windows' performance options to give background > services more CPU time and to give programs more memory. I feel that > helped a little. But Firefox appears a bit lame now and the freezes > still occur. > > > What else should I try? > > Best regards, > Dieter > If you close some of those 24 browser tabs does the problem go away? Bill
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load "nirwana@gmx.li" <nirwana@gmx.li> wrote: >My web browser is Firefox 2.0.0.6. I always have at least 2 dozen >browser tabs open so Firefox consumes up to 350-400 MB of my 1000 MB >RAM. Like you really need that many open windows, huh??? I stopped using Firefox MONTHS ago... it kept consuming more and more RAM, the more I used it - no matter how few open windows there were. Memory leak... eventually it would freeze my computer. No such problems with IE7.
Guest nirwana@gmx.li Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load On Aug 25, 3:57 pm, "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Ever run any type of Registry Cleaner on the PC ? ....sure, I run Registry Mechanic every once in a while. >It's MSInfo32.Exe Yes that's what I started. It results in starting the Help and Support Center. >I wouldn't toggle the enable bit for "LargeSystemCache" on a notebook PC. Perhaps you're right. I wrote I gave programs more memory so the cache size should be lower now. My "LargeSystemCache" setting was a relict of times of slower HDDs and smaller memory. >..."Show Hidden Devices" in Device Manager. ....only shows my USB scanner is not connected. >...the "Generic" latest driver from Synaptics' website... Version 8.3.4 > ...the one provided by your OEM. Version 7.8.1 I always thought I had the newest one. Thanks for pointing me to it! I'll install it as soon as I've posted this reply. >The mouse pointer issue might also be related to your Video driver so a check for the latest one is > also a good idea. Mine is S3 Prosavage DDR KN266 6.14.10.12 of May 2003. I found a newer one at VIA, I'll install it immediately after hitting the Send key. Another interesting hint I found in this forum is to lower the video load by setting the graphics acceleration slider one tick to the left. I'll try that too and I promise I'll report the results here. BTW, I tried a driver update for the D-Link Airplus DWL-G650+ wireles adapter but it wouldn't install correctly. I can only install the one from the CD that came with the Airplus. I guess I didn't dig deep enough into the problem. Maybe I could replace the driver used by the setup program and make a new install CD image. Many thanks to all of you guys in this great forum! > > Best regards, > > Dieter ps I really love Firefox, especially for it's plugins and I got so much used to tabbed browsing (e.g. I save and restore whole browsing sessions etc.). And I need all the lot of open tabs for my work (or say most of them). If I use IE it's mostly the FastBrowser, a tabbed overhead to IE.
Guest nirwana@gmx.li Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load Interim report: I tried to update the graphics driver. VIA suggests to use the Touchstone DriverAgent. I allowed the program to download install but when I clicked o "Scan Now" the PC just froze like described before. This is repeatable but I don't like to demonstrate it. What does the DriverAgent do? Scan the registry? Scan the PCI-Bus? What should I do, report this to Touchstone? My graphics adapter is the S3 Pro SavageDDR integrated graphics KN266. I managed to get the driver S3G_ProSavageDDR_winxp_v139433.exe without DriverAgent but I'm unable to install it. Message during install process (translated): --------------------------- Error in 16-Bit-Windows program --------------------------- File "C:\S3Graphics\ProSavageDDR_wxp_139433\SETUP.EXE" (or component) not found. Check if path and file name are correct and if all required library files are available. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- Any ideas?
Guest nirwana@gmx.li Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: XP freezes on rapid cursor movements under heavy cpu load Addendum: I eventually managed to run the 16-bit setup.exe by truncating the folder names created by the Winzip executable to 8 characters and then manually starting setup. Now with the new driver DriverAgent gets a bit further: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 36% Scanning hardware Start time: 2007.08.29 21:07:26 Plugin version: 2.2007.08.23, DA-NP Scanning smbios --> Done Scanning chipsets --> Done ....frozen again!
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