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KsoftFusion Paragoomba Level: 15  Posts: 36/71 EXP: 13389 For next: 2995 Since: 06-19-04 From: I don't know, gimme a map. Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| I have this odd problem with my computer. Every once and a while, it will seem to freeze up. I can move the mouse but do nothing else. It stays like this for about 8 seconds, then the monitor goes black for a second and the screen reappears and everything works. What the heck is going on? | |||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3631/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Might be some sort of defective screen saver, or a video card problem. Usually if the computer freezes but then starts running again, it's just running really slow because something's taking up a lot of CPU power. | |||
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KsoftFusion Paragoomba Level: 15 Posts: 37/71 EXP: 13389 For next: 2995 Since: 06-19-04 From: I don't know, gimme a map. Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| That's odd. At the time, the only thing I had running was Firefox. I'll see if there are some video driver updates. The screen saver wasn't running, and I hadn't been idle at all. | |||
neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 2603/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| hmm..i observed this phenomenon the other day when my friend was running Firefox on a Solaris machine. A number of things could be at fault. You could also try a spyware scan? | |||
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53  Posts: 679/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| What kind of video card is it? I just found out that ATI video drivers have a feature called "VPU recovery" that will essentially lock up the system and reset the video hardware if it overheats or otherwise malfunctions. However, this is supposed to generate an error message (which I'm assuming you don't get), and normally only happens during periods of high GPU usage (i.e. 3D games). You could also check your power management settings, make sure the monitor's not set to turn off after x minutes (that fixed the problem for someone on another forum). |
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KsoftFusion Paragoomba Level: 15 Posts: 38/71 EXP: 13389 For next: 2995 Since: 06-19-04 From: I don't know, gimme a map. Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| It's an ATI Radeon 9700. So it must be doing that. Normally no error message, but recently it went black and would not go back to what I was doing so I had to cut the power. It restarted and said I recovered from a serious error. | |||
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Xkeeper The required libraries have not been defined. Level: NAN  Posts: -2399/-863 EXP: NAN For next: 0 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: -753366 sec. |
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| It may just be some problem with the driver, but I've never seen it happen (though the screen has frozen at times, but I was doing some CPU-intensive shit) like that... although: Originally posted by KsoftFusion Originally posted by neotransotaku It's just a little strange that both times FF was open. Problem with its renderer? (edited by Xkeeper on 03-12-05 07:43 PM) |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1236/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Oh stop being a troll, X. Note that neo's friend was using Solaris (which is unsupported by Mozilla, but Firefox is free so I guess he compiled it), and Ksoft is running Windows. Most people on Windows are running as an Administrator, which is bad but unfortunately it's the only way to have it usable. On a *nix, a wise user will never run as root (or a user with such powers) unless doing admin stuff. Considering that he was running Firefox on Solaris, it's likely the friend knew what he was doing, thus wise and didn't use root. I'd go towards the video card theory. While it can't lock up the system, it does control the video output, making it appear as such. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3665/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Well if FF was the only thing running, I wouldn't be too quick to disregard it.  When it 'freezes', if you like move the mouse or type something, do you see the effects when it unfreezes or is it left the way it was? If these things are still happening, then only the display is actually frozen. |
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KsoftFusion Paragoomba Level: 15 Posts: 39/71 EXP: 13389 For next: 2995 Since: 06-19-04 From: I don't know, gimme a map. Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| My changes don't take effect so technically the whole thing is frozen. It's also not just happened on Firefox, just mostly when it happens I am. |
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