Lock ups and dumping psyical memory!!!
Hi i have just installed a new pc most of the stuff im useing is from my old computer so i know they work fine im running a:
P4 3GHZ Prescot 800MHz, HT-Enabled
865PE Neo2-P
512 DDR-400 Twin moss
ATI Radeon 9000 pro
PSU-400
XP Pro
My computer locks up alot when running intense games (games have worked before no problem) i also get a error saying dumping pysical memory, i have looked about and tried to solve this myself, i found that someone was haveing the exact same problem as me and he fixed it by turning the FSB down as his memory wasnt compatable with his motherboard if doing that works how do i do it ?
Many thanks Jonathan
Flappa, Your memory " clock" is fine and there is no need to "underclock it" as long as you did not mess with the Bios.
I had the same problems. I could not even get thru a Clean install of windows as it would Blue Screen
1- are you running in " Dual Channel Mode"?
2- If so is your memory a " match Set"?
some times memory even thought it has the same markings is not matched . Dual channel sets are matched and made to run together in "Dual Channel Mode"{
( Even though I had the same manufacturer memory my set would not run in Dual Channel without " Blue Screening" I bought a Matched Set of Kingston Valueram and have not had a problem since
3- If it is not a matched set, pull one stick out and run it for a while , if it still bluescreens try the other stick
4- raise your memory voltage to 2.7 or 2.8 ( which ever is the lowest that it runs stable)
5- If all this does not work , run MEMTEST to see if there is a problem with both sticks
6- you are running a Bios Version that supports the " Prescott Microcode" right?
Let us know what your findings are
Good Luck
Dave
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The following caveats apply to XProtect:
It can be bypassed by some third-party networking software, such as BitTorrent clients and Java applets.
It only applies to software downloaded from the network. Software installed from a CD or other media is not checked.
3. Starting with OS X 10.7.5, there has been a second layer of built-in malware protection, designated "Gatekeeper" by Apple. By default, applications and Installer packages downloaded from the network will only run if they're digitally signed by a developer with a certificate issued by Apple. Software certified in this way hasn't necessarily been tested by Apple, but you can be reasonably sure that it hasn't been modified by anyone other than the developer. His identity is known to Apple, so he could be held legally responsible if he distributed malware. That may not mean much if the developer lives in a country with a weak legal system (see below.)
Gatekeeper doesn't depend on a database of known malware. It has, however, the same limitations as XProtect, and in addition the following:
It can easily be disabled or overridden by the user.
A malware attacker could get control of a code-signing certificate under false pretenses, or could find some other way to bypass Apple's oversight, or the oversight could fail in a particular case due to human error.
For most purposes, applications recognized by Gatekeeper as signed, including App Store products, can be considered safe. Note, however, that at least one trojan for iOS (not for OS X) was briefly distributed by a developer in Russia through the iTunes App Store. That store is under the same oversight by Apple as the Mac App Store, so the protection shouldn't be considered absolute. App Store products may prompt for access to private data, such as your contacts. Think before granting that access. OS X security is based on user input. Never click anything reflexively.
4. Starting with OS X 10.8.3, a third layer of protection has been added: a "Malware Removal Tool" (MRT). MRT runs automatically in the background when you update the OS. It checks for, and removes, malware that may have evaded the other protections via a Java exploit (see below.) MRT also runs when you install or update the Apple-supplied Java runtime (but not the Oracle runtime.) Like XProtect, MRT is presumably effective against known attacks, but maybe not against unknown attacks. It notifies you if it finds malware, but otherwise there's no user interface to MRT.
5. Beyond XProtect, Gatekeeper, and MRT, there’s no evidence of any benefit from other automated protection against malware. The first and best line of defense is always your own intelligence. With the possible exception of Java exploits, all known malware circulating on the Internet that affects a fully-updated installation of OS X 10.6 or later takes the form of so-called "trojan horses," which can only have an effect if the victim is duped into running them. The threat therefore amounts to a battle of wits between you and the malware attacker. If you're smarter than he thinks you are, you'll win.
That means, in practice, that you never use software that comes from an untrustworthy source, or that does something inherently untrustworthy. How do you know what is trustworthy?
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Follow the above guidelines, and you’ll be as safe from malware as you can practically be. The rest of this comment concerns what you should not do to protect yourself from malware.
7. Never install any commercial "anti-virus" or "Internet security" products for the Mac, as they all do more harm than good, if they do any good at all. If you need to be able to detect Windows malware in your files, use the free software ClamXav — nothing else.
Why shouldn't you use commercial "anti-virus" products?
Their design is predicated on the nonexistent threat that malware may be injected at any time, anywhere in the file system. Malware is downloaded from the network; it doesn't materialize from nowhere.
In order to meet that nonexistent threat, the software modifies or duplicates low-level functions of the operating system, which is a waste of resources and a common cause of instability, bugs, and poor performance.
By modifying the operating system, the software itself may create weaknesses that could be exploited by malware attackers.
8. ClamXav doesn't have these drawbacks. That doesn't mean it's entirely safe. It may report email messages that have "phishing" links in the body, or Windows malware in attachments, as infected files, and offer to delete or move them. Doing so will corrupt the Mail database. The messages should be deleted from within the Mail application.
ClamXav is not needed, and should not be relied upon, for protection against OS X malware. It's useful only for detecting Windows malware. Windows malware can't harm you directly (unless, of course, you use Windows.) Just don't pass it on to anyone else.
A Windows malware attachment in email is usually easy to recognize. The file name will often be targeted at people who aren't very bright; for example:
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!!!!!H0TBABEZ4U!!!!!!!.AVI♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.exe
ClamXav may be able to tell you which particular virus or trojan it is, but do you care? In practice, there's seldom a reason to use ClamXav unless a network administrator requires you to run an anti-virus application.
9. The greatest harm done by security software, in my opinion, is in its effect on human behavior. It does little or nothing to protect people from emerging threats, but if they get a false sense of security from it, they may feel free to do things that expose them to higher risk. Nothing can lessen the need for safe computing practices.
10. It seems to be a common belief that the built-in Application Firewall acts as a barrier to infection, or prevents malware from functioning. It does neither. It blocks inbound connections to certain network services you're running, such as file sharing. It's disabled by default and you should leave it that way if you're behind a router on a private home or office network. Activate it only when you're on an untrusted network, for instance a public Wi-Fi hotspot, where you don't want to provide services. Disable any services you don't use in the Sharing preference pane. All are disabled by default. -
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Hello everyone..
I come here to see if anyone can help me... Ive done it all and nothing is working.
I just recently started having problems with my computer, im not sure why this happend but ill try to explain everything as best as I can.
The problem started a few days ago while I was playing SWG's. I was playing and all of a sudden my machine froze, the screen locked-up and then after about 2 min the entire system restarted. I then logged back into my windows and after a while a system froze and restarted yet again. I though it was a SWGs issue but then the computer would freeze while browsing the net and doing other tasks.
I have formated my machine, re-installed my drivers, and re-installed the hardward. Nothing has worked.
My computer specs are
300watt PSU Enermax True Power
MSI K7n2 nforce2 8xagp mobo
athon 1700xp
512mb of Kingmax DDR 2700
SB audigy x-gamer sound card
MSI geforce4 ti 4200 8xAGP graphics card
Hope thats enough..
One last thing... When my computer restarts after the problem i get a message asking me to report the problem to microsoft... i located the error file and this is what was writen in it....
// Watchdog Event Log File
LogType: Watchdog
Created: 2003-07-19 01:30:24
TimeZone: 300 - Eastern Standard Time
WindowsVersion: XP
EventType: 0xEA - Thread Stuck in Device Driver
// The driver for the display device got stuck in an infinite loop. This
// usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device
// driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your
// display device vendor for any driver updates.
ShutdownCount: 5
Shutdown: 0
EventCount: 5
BreakCount: 5
BugcheckTriggered: 1
DebuggerNotPresent: 1
DriverName: nv4_disp
EventFlag: 1
DeviceClass: Display
DeviceDescription: MSI MS-StarForce GeForce4 Ti 4200 with 8X (NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X)
HardwareID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0281&SUBSYS_89431462&REV_A1
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
DriverFixedFileInfo: FEEF04BD 00010000 0006000D 000A0C1C 0006000D 000A0C1C 0000003F 00000008 00040004 00000003 00000004 00000000 00000000
DriverCompanyName: NVIDIA Corporation
DriverFileDescription: NVIDIA Compatible Windows 2000 Display driver, Version 31.00
DriverFileVersion: 6.13.10.3100
DriverInternalName: nv_disp.dll
DriverLegalCopyright: (c) NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.
DriverOriginalFilename: nv_disp.dll
DriverProductName: NVIDIA Compatible Windows 2000 Display driver, Version 31.00
DriverProductVersion: 6.13.10.3100
Hope this helps, i dont understand what it means so maybe one of you might...
Please help me on this... Ive tried everything i can...
Thanks in advanceIf what you are saying, and I am reading correctly:
The machine and game was working just peachy and all of a sudden the problem manifested itself?
Did you do ANYTHING to change your system prior to this happening to possibly have an effect?
the fast that you said you have re-loaded the OS and removed and re-installed the hardware with the same result tells me that there may be some sort of hardware failure and this could get difficult to troubleshoot.
First things first, try a memory testing software like memtest86 to see if you get any errors.
http://www.memtest86.com/ -
IPhone 5 lock-ups and crashes after iOS7 upgrade
On Wednesday I upgraded to iOS 7. While I like the new look and functionality, I have experienced a couple of OS crashes/lock-ups in a way that I had to force-reboot my iPhone by holding the sleep&home buttons.
There are two situations where this happens for me: First, when the phone is locked (4-digit passcode), I swipe to unlock, then I try to type the passcode, but the device is completely locked up and doesn't accept any input. It doesn't react on the sleep and home buttons either.
The second situation is when answering a call: Phone rings, I swipe the green button to answer, then the screen goes black and the device seems completely bricked until force-rebooted.
Case 1 has happened 4 times so far since wednesday, case 2 happened three times (answering three different phone calls).
The device is an iPhone 5 64GB I bought in October 2012.
None of this ever happened to me before the upgrade to iOS 7.
Doesn anyone have the same issues? Where can I get help on this?I have this issue as well and I did a hard reset and restore from icloud and did the same from my computer and neither of them fixed the issue. Of course I would be outside of my warranty period. My phone continues to crash at least 4 to 5 times a day. Please help us!!!
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I remember reading something here about people having trouble with their systems locking up and then getting a loud static noise then a sound loop when playing games.
I am getting this about 2-3 times a night now and it is driving me nuts, I do not have temp problems of any sort and I have all of the latest drivers for everything on my system.
Any ideas?
Specs in sigSet your PCI/AGP Freq to 66.66/33.33MHz.
Increase your DDR Voltage to 2.7~2.8v.
Check if you have any background programs causing all high CPU load times while gaming. -
Lock ups and Freezing solved on my Audig
After days of trying different stuff to resolve this problem where screen locks up and looping squealing plagued my computer, I think I have finally resolved the problem. It appears that one of the programs running in my system tray was the culprit. I shut down everything in my system tray and then tried BF2 and it finally worked and has been working consistently. I do not know yet which program was causing the problem ( I'm still working on finding which one), but I have weeded out my antivirus (AVG free), my firewall?(Zonealarm),? Musicmatch Jukebox ( which I really suspected, but does not appear to be the one) and ?my Logitech wireless mouse software. Still got to reactivate Quicktime, Corecenter ( an MSI overclocking tool) Nastromo loadout manager, Instant Messenger and a couple of others. What ever the conflict in the program that is causing the problem is directly conflicting with my Audigy 2 card. I could remove the card and the problem would go away using onboard sound. But I was very disturbed that my Audigy 2 was not working. I tried removing ram, I tried using different pci slots, and lets not count the number of times that I removed and reinstalled drivers and software. Though I well give a little credit to finding the problem to this forum. There is a post advising to go to msconfig and disabling a bunch of the start up programs while doing driver removal and reinstall. After reinstalling last driver I went ahead and ran BF2 before restarting computer ( while all programs in systray were off ) and it ran flawlessly. Then I restarted computer all my normal background software loaded up. I fired up BF2 and bam there was the same old lockup and squeal. So I just went to the system tray and shut down everything and it runs smooth as butter. Hope this helps I know from reading the forums there are alot other people having the same problem.
I would be concerned that you may have a power supply going bad. Unfortunately the only way to test this theory is to replace it. If you do replace it may sure you get one that is rated at a high enough wattage to supply your system. I use a 500 watt power supply. I have had power supplies to go bad on me in the past. Sometimes the power supplies will not go entirely out, they just stop producing as much power as they normally would. This can cause some weird things to happen in your system. I've had one go bad and it was providing enough juice to let my computer cut on, but the video card wasn't getting enough?juice to operate thus I was getting a blank screen. I would also like to know if you are overclocking. Sometimes overclocking can cause heat issues that could cause a similar problem to what you are having.
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I've been having this problem off and on now for awhile. My pc will just lock up and a message comes up "A program caused this to happen" Then the pc will auto restart page. The thing about it is it's doing it more and more. There's got to be something I can do about it...
try this link http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c03408309&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_us... most likely your pc is infected, my suggestion ...if you dont have important files on this computer you can revert it back to factory settings. Everything will be wiped out but Windows and the programs that was came with the package will be reinstalled
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Whats up with the system lockups just frustrated as to why. I could be checking mail, surfing the web or using PS Elements 9. Makes no difference what I am doing it occationaly locks up and requires a cold boot (windows talk).
I don't think so, Lion with the latest updates is running fine for most of us.
Post the log for your next lockup or the previous one if you can isolate the timeframe.
/Applications/Utilities/Console > system.log -
Lock ups and other joyous occasions!
Hello everyone. I obviously am having some difficulties, and I came here for help. I currently am running a MSI KT4AV-L MB, a Athlon Xp 1800+ proccessor @ 266 fsb, 2 512 mb Micron pc2100 RAM modules, a ATI Radeon 8500LE (128mb version) graphics card, and a Sounblaster Live! Value sound card. Just to get it out of the way, my power supply specs are as follows;3.3v=28A,5v=36A, 12v=16A, -5v=0.5A, -12v= 0.8A and the 5vsb=3A. The power supply itself is a echostar 480w dual fan unit. I have Windows Xp Pro with sp2 installed, a fresh install, and all of my drivers, including the chipset, are current. I Also noted on VIA's website that Microsoft released a unified AGP driver with sp2, so I did not install Via's AGP driver, as it stated on their site. Now, for the trouble.
My old rig (the only difference was a Asus A7A266 board) would constantly lock up whenever I tried to play Medal of Honor. After testing everything out, I decided it was probably just the old Ali chipset (the Asus used the Ali magik 1 chipset) and I purchased the MSI board listed above. Well, I just finished beating Medal of Honor, but my favorite game, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, now is locking up just like Medal of Honor used to! The entire PC locks up, I cant even get the caps lock key or numlock key indicators to light up or go off when it locks up! I,ve tried turning off and on every AGP setting in the BIOS, I've tried using the onboard audio vs the Sounblaster card, I've tried turning down the settings in the DRAM setting in BIOS, all to no avail. IM really, really upset by this-I LOVE ET, and Im really mad :waiting:I "fixed" one problem, and am havng another. I cant see any of my hardware being the issue now-if it were a bad ram chip, weak psu, IRQ sharing issue, driver problem, bad cluster on the hdd, I would have found it by now. Any suggestions?Hello,
Some questions first
Are both memory sticks the same? model, revision?
Have you tried memtest with only 1 stick at a time yet?
Could you try this,
Enter the BIOS make sure your settings are on AUTO.
XP1800+ should be 1.53Ghz
Memory on SPD.
Disable all Spread spectrum options
Set the AGP size to 128mb.
Save and exit.
Reinstall your windows XP with SP2, (SP2 integrated to the CD?)
Then install the VIA 4in1 drivers (forget the microsoft AGP driver)
http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/drivers/4in1/via_hyperion%204%20in%201_v453v.zip
restart and then install ATi catalyst v4.8
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-042-040803a-016701c.exe
restart, wait a bit the screen should flicker.
Now try ET. -
K7t Turbo2 lock ups and restarts
I'm new to MSI boards and this is my first , the problem I am having is when I go to install a game (Diablo2,1503 ad and any other I have) it barely starts to install and locks up or goes blank or restarts the system. I have changed everything the only constant is the motherboard. This is the second I have tried of this board with the exact same problem. Has anyone else had these problems if so did you find a fix? Please let me know, Thank You.
The BIOS version is 3.5 , the via drivers I managed to get in that I know went in are 4.43.They came on the CD with the board. When i try 4.49 it locks up, I found newer drivers for the AC97 onboard sound and it locked up. I have 98 first edition and ME. I have a copy of XP but Microsoft will not give me a new activation number so that was money out the door as I had it for 3 days then my old hard drive crashed. The hardware I bought with the copy is still in this computer which means I have not broke the end users agreement like they say I have.When I get this totally taken care of i will reinstall XP but not before as i dont want to go thru all that with them again. The hard drive is new, the memory is new, the processor is new, the cd-rom is new, the CPU fan is new, the only thing old is the cd-rw and sound card. There are 2 reasons I chose this board 1 had alot of PC133 laying around and 2 read it was a great board and is cheap which is good as I am unemployed right now. I got 1 for me and 2 for 2 other people. My first board didn't start right away, it started just after when my hard drive crashed, bought a new drive and set it up and it wouldn't let me install,thought ok it a cheaper Maxtor Fireball3 it kinda real loud to me so I got a Diamondmax to replace the Fireball cos I thought it might be bad. Installed clean and it still did it. So I ordered in a new processor and another board from same place I had gotten the last 3. The new processor is bad it supposed to be a 1.33Athlon board reads it as a 1.0 and locks up before windows loads up. Tried it in 3 computers and it did same thing. All 3 computers had different brands of boards so it has to be the processor. Installed the new board and reformatted and installed everything clean and the problem was exactly the same and then one of the people call me with same problem I am having and they have a PCI modem in theirs and is running onboard sound. Sounds like to me something is wrong with the PCI bus or something cos it acts up when there is a card in the PCI slots. I will probably run it like it is then get me a KT6 Delta board only prob is I will have to eat the cost of at least one more plus the memory to replace the other persons also.
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FF4 final running on Win Vista 32bit. FF 3.6.15 was faster and completely stable as is my OS. With FF4, opening a new tab usually causes the screen to black out very briefly, and then sometimes (not always) totally lock up - even when it's an empty tab. The memory usage then climbs rapidly. Have had to kill it multiple times now and using Chome because it is incredibly stable. Please sort this out ASAP - I've been a loyal FF user fan for years.
This (may) be related to Google Instant...not sure yet though. Either way, not a good feature. I am really unimpressed with FF4.
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Hi guys,
Has anyone had any issue with the phone locking up/freezing on them? Its happened to me the last couple of nights now... I've been browsing the menus and it just slows down and becomes unresponsive and laggy. Barely usable! I have to shut down and turn on again, after that its fine...
The latest one: I just checked my phone for the first time for about 3 hours and although I could get to my text messages the keyboard was really laggy and the back button only lit up 30 seconds after I touched it? I don' think it even did the action
I ended up just switching it off/on.
Any ideas?Force restart your phone (power & volume up for 10 seconds)
if that doesn't work then reinstall the latest update and check again
Update Service (SUS)
PC Companion (PCC)
Bridge (for Mac)
Alternatives on How to backup Xperias
http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355
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BSODs lock ups and flakey firewire port - help ??
Okay I'm really getting fustrated over this laptop it's nearly 2 weeks old
and I've already had 2 BSODs the odd crash where the mouse moves but nothing
else around it works so a forced reboot was needed.
Today I had a BSOD all i did was run some untility from the taskbar called
network doctor or something.
error message:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (no address information supplied)
STOP: 0x00000000050
someone suggested that I may have a memory problem or my page file is corrupt.
anyway here's a run down on what i've installed so far with my laptop.
- Installed all XP security updates and patches
- Installed Firefox 1.0.1 (don't trust IE6.0 yet)
- Installed iriver download manager (my mp3 player)
- Installed winamp 2.0 and Creative Notebook Cam.
I've ran a forced boot chkdsk and no problems found.
Another thing I found interesting was nearly everytime my laptop bsods I usually
find a a yellow marker over my 1394 net adapter (firewire port) in device mananger
("cannot start device") don't know if that's related or not. A reboot seems to
clear this yellow marker but I am rather unhappy BSODs are no laughing matter.
My laptop model is the Equium A60-181 (Intel P4 HT 3.2Ghz 512Mb RAM)
Anyone else had similar problems or recommendations?
cheers,
Richard S.Hi Richard
I understand you that you are unhappy with this all problems but there can be a lot of reasons for that. In my opinion this can happened because of some unnecessary update or some drivers installed by third-party software that you installed on your notebook.
Please reinstall OS using Recovery CD. After firs boot check in device manager if there is some hardware problem. If not you than try to start Config free (Connectivity doctor) and some other Toshiba tools to check if everything is ok.
If everything is ok try to install SP2 if you dont have it on your machine (just SP2 and not separately updates and patches). I am not sure but some of A60 are delivered with SP2.
Install all your programs slowly and follow carefully what happened after every step that you done.
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