System Locks up with PCI64 downl

Re-formatted my HD. Uploaded windows 98se plus display drivers and video card driver. As soon as I start to load PCI64 software (from Cd or download), computer locks up. No keyboard or mouse actions. Have to reboot in Safe mode to get anything, but can not see how to disable whatever is locking system up. Booting back in Normal mode - system remains locked. Am not able to use sound card as I am fed up with re-formatting dri've.
HELP
MikH

This is a very old barebones, unfortunately memory support is described as "up to 2GB" and as 1GB sticks weren't commonplace at the time, its possible it might just not work.
1GB should be plenty enough for what this system can handle though.
Have you tried testing the sticks with >>Memtest86<<?

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This is a very old barebones, unfortunately memory support is described as "up to 2GB" and as 1GB sticks weren't commonplace at the time, its possible it might just not work.
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CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K (stock)
Mobo: MSI Z68A-G45(B3) ATX
RAM: 2X2GB Mushkin Silverline DDR3 PC3-10666 @ 1.5V (stock)
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Other: 1 120mm fan and 1 140mm fan
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Clearing CMOS thru Clear CMOS button, as well as taking out the CMOS batteries out for a minute
Check voltage in BIOS and they looked fine
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Unplugging everything and leaving only the CPU, CPU fan, 1 module of RAM, and HDD
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When system locked up with the artifact on screen, the mouse is dimly lighted and flickered when it's clicked.
All 4 CPU Phase LEDs lit up, but the three on the right are dimmer than the one on the left and it appears that they are flickering.
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Quote from: Henry on 06-October-11, 10:12:40
Re-seat the CPU and check the CPU socket for bent/damaged pins.
That Corsair PSU should be more than good enough for your rig.
I re-seated the CPU and checked the socket, no bent/damaged pins.
Quote from: NovJoe on 06-October-11, 11:18:30
If resitting the CPU and checking the CPU socket still returns same results, I suggest you test your processor in another board and see if the same artifacts came up.
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Something odd is happening, on my normally, and otherwise stable laptop with XP-Pro SP3.
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I cannot verify that this happens every Friday (do not remember it on Friday Jan. 13, for instance, but then the Adobe Forum Log-in went down), as I am often out of town. However, and based only on memory, this has now happened about 5 - 6 times, and always late in the morning, and on Fridays.
Normally, I only have my Browser open, though this time also had Windows Explorer minimized. During this AM, I had PrPro, PrE and Photoshop open at times, but none was open, when the lock-up happened.
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TIA,
Hunt

hmm.... google.... i dont really trust google much....
i used to have something ( i use xp ) that basically I had total control over when to connect to isp etc and disconnect... but for life of me cant remember what it was. that was years ago.
now when i start computer it automatically ( partially this is due to isp of verizon ) connects and then gives me control of computer ( is part of boot and load process now ).
your prob seems to be some kinda scheduled thing is why i was thinking maybe turn stuff ' off ' that might be trying to update or something under the radar ( is part of the system more or less.. components ...)
this area
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System lock ups when using hard disks

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193937
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[edit3] My previous thought was that this was a btrfs issue, however now I think it may be more hardware related.[/edit3]
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The evening before I was playing games just fine and doing normal activities.
Also, the other day, while booted into the live cd I think it started to crash since it was acting extremely bizarre, but I shutdown, successfully, before it could do more than complain a lot. At the time I was in the middle of scrubbing a btrfs volume after a system lock up. I think, but am not certain, that I saw on my motherboard "A5" which, according to the manual indicates "SCSI reset", but I had an extremely bad viewing angle. I know neither if what I think I saw was correct, nor do I know if the system was again in the process of a meltdown.
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[edit] Oh, I'm on kernel 3.19.2 and btrfs is 3.19.
[edit2] Also, I converted the RAID0 to a single in case that matters.
[edit4] I finished scrubbing and copied my "journalctl -b" output to pastebin. I can't see any thing that might raise any flags. http://pastebin.com/WXpbpTuc
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nstgc : it's hard to tell if your problems are memory related, but memtst often needs multiple passes to detect errors.
How many passes did you let it make ?
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On to more serious issues.. .
I am experiencing system lock-ups on the brand spanking new computer I just buildt.(Yeah, yeah.. . Anti-static and all other thinkable precautions were taken.. .)
Needless to say it's annoying the hell out of me. I can't work and I can't play with a situation like this.. .
The system just hangs and the only solution is to press the reset button.
This usually happens in games or when scrolling a window. Less frequently it also happens when doing nothing. It only seems like it's getting worse - more frequent that is.
Are there any known issues with TwinMos RAM and nForce2?
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The BIOS of the MB has not been flashed by me - as out-of-the-box.
Nvidia drivers version 5.10.
No overclocking of any sort of any device.
I will be running the full monty in Memtest x86 over night, but the RAM DIMM is spanking new and has been handeled with the utmost caution. The first five tests returned nothing wrong.
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Edit: I have a sneaking suspicion that it gets worse until I power off/on - after that it will take a longer time for the error to return. I haven't verified this empirically, but I have a hunch.. .
I really hope there's someone with helpful insight to this problem out there!
Thank you for your time.

Woops. Seems like I don't have access rights to the last link.
It seems like downflashing to B30 is the only way to go for me as I'm having *major* stability issues, even with no overclocking.
Heck - I even had to reset and reboot the machine when trying to write this post just now!
I must say I've never experienced such outrageous instability with any of my other MSI MBs before.. . Not from any other make for that matter. This is just incredible.
I'll flash it tomorrow (if I can find a damned floppy somewhere). For now I really have to work.
Fingers crossed!
Thanks again for great input!

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I downloaded the latest driver version, 2.5.0006 today in an effort to try and fix an issue that was intermittently causing the card to stop working (either Vista would tell me no sound device was detected, or there inexplicably would not be any sound what-so-ever).
Since 'upgrading' to the latest version, I have experienced 2 BSoDs and 2 complete system lock-u
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I have contacted customer support about the issue, but while I am waiting to hear back from them, are any of you running across this issue at all My current plan is to wipe out all the drivers and software and install Daniel_k's latest distribution to try and fix this problem. Does anyone have any other suggestions
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PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67 GHz
EVGA nForce4 680i mobo
4 GB RAM
BFG nVidia 8800 GTX (x2 in SLi)
Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
While I was updating the post with my system specs, the computer BSoD'd again.
Edit #2
And in case you were wondering, no, the driver update did not fix the original issue.
Message Edited by Emura on 04-2-2008 2:00 AM

Yeah, sounds like you're getting the same problem as me. I've been having random lockups upon reboot as well as lockups and bluescreens while using the device; listening to music, watching YouTube videos, and playing games.
Interesting to note that we don't have the same chipset, amount of RAM, video card configuration, processor, or Vista installation.
It's been about 24 hours since I e-mailed tech support about the issue. They say their average response time is 24 hours, so I'm hoping to see something tomorrow.
As for overclocking, I haven't overclocked this PC so I don't think that's the issue. I appreciate all the feedback and suggestions that have been given so far!
Update: I recieved an e-mail from tech support today, and it was exactly the canned auto-response I was expecting. I'll copy and paste parts of it here:
CLI Support wrote:
1. If there is an onboard audio on your PC's motherboard, it is
recommended that you disable onboard audio to prevent any conflicts it
may cause with the Sound Blaster device.
CLI Support wrote:
2. Please follow the steps to uninstall and reinstall the sound card on
your system by following the instructions in the following knowledge
base article.
Title: Uninstalling Sound Blaster Drivers and Applications
URL: http://us.creative.com/support/kb/ar...asp l=3&sid=72
CLI Support wrote:
The only method for obtaining a refund or exchange is through the vendor
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product is possibly defecti've, in which case an RMA (Return Merchandise
Authorization) would be issued. The Creative Labs RMA department's
responsibility is to test and repair/replace defecti've products once our
technical support agents have determined the product to be defecti've via
troubleshooting steps.
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In the meantime please take the time to browse our latest offerings from
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At this point, I'm pretty tired of dealing with this card. The store I bought it from won't take it back for an exchange or refund, and I doubt CL will RMA it, since the 'product' seems to work fine (though IMHO, defecti've drivers = defecti've product). Even if I could get an RMA through CL, they'd only end up sending me another card, which wouldn't fix the driver issues at all.
I'm going to look around and see if I can find someone interested in buying it, then put that money towards a new card from M-Audio. In the meantime, however, I'll play CLI Support's game and try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers again. Let's see where that goes.
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Constant stream of lock ups with Lion 10.7.2

At my wits end since upgrading to Lion (10.7.2). I get a constant stream of application lock ups (beach ball) on every app I try: Firefox (8.0.1) , intermitent connectivity to Internet (although I know my connection is good); App Store unable to connect; iTune unable to connect to store; Parallels Desktop locks up; Outlook (Office Mac 2011) locks up, Time Machine locks up, and more not mentioned. None of these seem to occur at the same time; it's more like the app that decides to not work is random. Firefox is good but App Store will not connect; iTunes is good, but Firefox will not connect.
Each time I'm forced to restart or shutdown only to have similar, but not the same, errors after I log back on. The errors (lock ups) started right after the upgrade and have gotten progressively worse as the days/weeks go by. At the point now where the PC is completely unreliable. It's a crap shoot to find out what is working and what is not.
I've tried about everything mentioned in the forums -- verified/fixed permissions, used Mac OS install DVD to verify/fix HDD issues; no help.
Prior to upgrade, I had zero issues running SL -- all of this started with Lion.

simon57 wrote:
In any case, shouldn't Software Update recognise what I am running and what is needed to update it successfully?
To a point. It will inform you of a system update, as with Lion 10.7.2 for example, but that is not the combo update. I set my Systum Updates to install manually, if I see an OS update, I always go to
http://support.apple.com/downloads/
And choose the Combo update whice is always a little bigger, but a cumulative install as mentioned. Always appears to be more stable.
Cheers

Verify Disk results, confusing.. Can they be the cause of system lock ups?

I have been experiencing strange freezes on my Mac Pro 2008 system.
My boot disk is a 50% full 128GB SSD from Crucial and is running beautifully fast however for the past couple of weeks my system often freezes for anything from 3 seconds to 30 seconds and then the Finder restarts.
After the Finder restarts everything continues running smoothly. As if nothing ever happend, no error reports, no apps crashed, nothing.
I have verified disk permissions and verified the disk itself in Disk Utility but I am not quite sure what these results mean and if they could be the cause of these random lock ups.
here are the results:
Verify permissions for “Boot Disk”
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Group differs on "private/etc/hostconfig", should be 0, group is 20.
Permissions verification complete
Verifying volume “Boot Disk”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Missing thread record (id = 5888152)
Incorrect number of thread records
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 184294 instead of 184295)
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Boot Disk was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
I would really appreciate it if someone that knows their way around this stuff could help me troubleshoot this.
As for the problem of the system locking up it does not happen in the same application consistently.
Often it happens in Firefox but it could equally often happen when working in Photoshop, browsing files in the Finder or trying to access the Spotlight search via the keyboard shortcut.
When the system locks up I get the spinning beach ball and I can still move the mouse and click and even still access CMD+TAB app switcher, switch spaces and all those things, just applications become non responsive.
If you need any more details please let me know.
Thanks for reading,
Jannis

These are innocuous errors that you may safely ignore. However the disk error is a problem. Do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Random system lock-up or freeze / Linux 3.4

Hi
My system seem to regularly lock-up in the linux 3.4[1] series. Whenever this happens, I had to power cycle the system by holding down the power button. Keyboard, numlock, mouse wouldn't work. I'm still looking-out for a pattern that trips this lock-up consistently. The lock-up doesn't happen for days and can happen every other day as well.
During this lock-up nothing gets captured in the system log too. I parsed 'journalctl -a'. Here is a sample from such a lock-up:
Jun 30 18:01:01 chaembian /usr/sbin/crond[4747]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jun 30 18:01:01 chaembian /USR/SBIN/CROND[4748]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 30 20:45:03 chaembian kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Jun 30 20:45:03 chaembian kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
I noticed the lock-up around 18:30 and instead of forcing it to shutdown, I thought I would give it sometime to snap out of it. But nothing happened until 20:45, when I forced the restart. The only other anomalies are (picking out their first apperances):
Jun 25 13:57:33 chaembian kernel: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880115e10a80 idx:1 val:-2
Jun 25 13:57:34 chaembian kernel: BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880115e10a80 idx:2 val:2
during shutdown
and
Jun 10 10:08:57 chaembian kernel: r8169 0000:05:00.0: eth0: link down
Jun 10 10:08:57 chaembian kernel: r8169 0000:05:00.0: eth0: link down
Jun 10 10:08:57 chaembian kernel: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
during boot[2]
I'm not sure if these precipitate the lock-ups but these are the things that stand out in the logs for my untrained eyes.
> uname -a
Linux chaembian 3.4.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 24 18:59:47 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Let me know if you require any more information.
1 - I was a regular -ck patched user. Since the time the series started serving 3.4 series, I was having lock-ups. Since the stock was still at 3.3 then, I was using the stock as I was trying understand the issue from the logs. But ever since stock moved into 3.4, the lock-ups are happening in this as well. Again, since I have not been able to recreate the issue on demand, I'm not able to attribute the regression to 3.4 conclusively.
2 - A similar issue that was reported from last year will be System lock-ups or software resets, with increased ethernet activity. But the key difference is that my logs have just one instance of this message generated at the time of boot.
Last edited by chaembian (2012-07-02 04:57:50)

Yes, that's how I have it setup. Until today's forced power cycling earlier today, the journal had all the entries from June 10th. The system gets proper shutdown daily (there is a power shortage where I live and to counter there is a scheduled, daily power shedding for 1 hour).

I am feeling so ripped off right now. I have wanted a Mac for years and believed the hype about it's stability and I have had more trouble with this Imac 2011 than I have ever had with a pc. It locks up with several software products from APP store.

I am feeling so ripped off right now. I have wanted a Mac for years and believed the hype about it's stability and I have had more trouble with this Imac 2011 than I have ever had with a pc. It locks up with several software products from APP store. I have already had to have a technician to look at it and really couldn't figure out what the deal was. I was told that the APP store software should give me no problems but the truth is that it locks up on the software. This machine is only 4 weeks old and I am using 37 g on a 1 T hard drive. There is no reason for it to be locking up. Also, when I try to use the help program, it always tells me that I am not connected to the internet even though I have used both the mail program and the browser with no problem just before that. I successfully used the help program on my pc lots of times. I did not need a $2000. plus machine to just get email. I just wanted to unload on somebody that might understand my pain and after checking out this site...I think there is a few of you out there.

I was told that the APP store software should give me no problems but the truth is that it locks up on the software.
The apps downloaded from the Mac App Store are written by third party developers, not Apple. If you have problems with those apps you need to visit the support area for their websites. Launch the App Store, locate the app name. You should see a support link.
when I try to use the help program, it always tells me that I am not connected to the internet even though I have used both the mail program and the browser with no problem just before that
Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.helpviewer.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Trash. Restart your Mac, try the Help menu.
If you need help finding that file, hold down the Finder icon in the Dock then click: New Finder Window. From the menu bar top of your screen click: Go > Go to Folder. Type this in exactly as you see it here: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.helpviewer.plist That will take you right to that file.
(.plist) files stores information about a particular app or in this case, the Help viewer. Often times deleting the .plist file resolves the issue.
It's fine to "unload"... we understand that you expect your iMac to be stable but there are times when things go awry. That's why we have these forums so that you can you get help.
You may want to read up on how to repair the disk if necessary or reintsall Lion > OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
Apple - Find Out How - Mac Basics
How to "switch" from PC to Mac > Apple - Support - Switch 101
I'm sorry you feel, "ripped off", but you are using the world's most advanced operating system and it may take some time to adjust to a new OS. http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/

Adobe Media Encoder Locking up with AVCHD

Greetings,
I have run so many tests on this project I don't know what else to try, so here it goes...
My system -
Windows 7
ASUS P6T mobo
Core i7 920
Quadro FX 1800 w/Elemental Accelerator
PPro Prem Prod CS4
All current drivers and updates installed
I have plenty of speed to run AVCHD but upon encoding in AME there is a crash issue.
Source footage is 10 minutes of AVCHD (.mts) captured at 17Mbps, 1920x1080i, 60i.(I've also tried other AVCHD source footage).
I run Elemental Accelerator on a Quadro FX 1800 card with the latest version of drivers. The CS4 version is also latest version.
The footage is edited in PPro. It has several titles, one of which is an AE linked title, but fairly simple.
The footage is edited as timelapse, sped up between 200-400%, so, it's pretty 'busy'.
Audio track is standard .wav file
Upon export, I wanted to make a master file at 1920x1080p, using Elemental H.264...or Elemental MPEG-2.
I check render at maximum quality....multiplexer is TS. I've tried the preset bitrates, and custom from 12-28kbps.
Every time I set it to encode, AME locks up....at random times. The entire system locks, no mouse response, and have to do a hard restart.
I've tried MANY test clips...mostly around 2-5 minutes in length. Sometime the shorter clips will render, but if I go over this length it always locks up.
I did try bitrates ranging from 12Kbps to 28Kbps....and it did seem once I went over 15Kbps they ran longer or enabled a longer 'attempt' or a successful encode up to 5mins. Still, with those exact settings it locks up on a longer encode.
I made a successful encode using a non-Elemental preset, but it takes foooreever. 3.5 hours for 10 minutes of footage at 1920x1080p...which seems ridiculously long on a GPU enhanced card. As a comparison, I have a third party encoder (AVS) and it FLIES through the (pre-rendered) footage at blazing speeds with good quality. (Yes, I know that's diff than the first pass encode however).
I've tried un/reinstalling CS4, Elemental, and all drivers on a CS4 Clean Script for Windows....no help whatsoever. Defragged, ran CCleaner....no help.
Is my bitrate too low? GPU issues? Voodoo curse?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your response dradeke. Yes, that was one of the fist things I checked. I double checked with Elemental Tech support, and even sent them my project files to see if they could duplicate the crashes but they have not found any issues on their end. I have all the updates to both CS4, EA, Windows.
I'm at a total loss here...I've even switched the projects to other drives, and tried deleting prefs.

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