System unstable

my computer worked well with old catalyst drivers and directx 8.1 but now when i installed dx 9 and catalyst 3.0 drivers, my system has become unstable it boots randomly when i use windows, expecially when playing video clips with windows mediaplayer or realplayer. All works fine when playing games, only windows causes problems.
Please help i dont know what to do ;(
my system
P4 2,4 ghz
MSI-648-maxF with bios 1.1
Ati radeon 9700
512mb ram
Windows XP professional
DX9 and catalyst 3.0 installed

Catalyst 3.5 is out already. And you can't uninstall DirectX. Just get DirectX 9.0a. You could also try the Omega driver for the Ati card, based on Catalyst 3.4 (http://www.omegacorner.com/). I'm waiting for the Catalyst 3.5 based Omega driver.

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Running Prime95 to test
Blend test stops mostly within the first few seconds reporting hardware error. The other two types work well. Did not let them go past few mins.
Also, changed the CPU to FSB ratio to 1:4. So, BIOS indicates 1600Mhz. Changed DRAM Voltage to 1.65V and system still unstable. Changed back.
Also, when I enable the MSI board features to Unlock CPU and ACC, the sytem does not boot under and stock settings.
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4GB RAM (2x2) OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 OCZ3G1600LV2G (recommended voltage 1.65V)
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Run a test @DDR3-1066 first.
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OCZ3G1600LV2G
The model number is incomplete (not possible to find any match on the OCZ Product Pages).
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Voltage 1.5V (Mfg specs.. say 1.65V)
Those 1.5V do not indicate the voltage set in BIOS but the JEDEC Compliant default voltage for DDR3 modules (1.5V +/- 0.075V). 1.65V is an overvoltaged rating that is needed to compensate the overclocked/undertimed ratings OCZ adverises for those modules.

After replacing HDD system unstable troubleshooting advice?

Hi,
I just replaced my HD with the following process.
Full copy to new dri on usb enclosure with superduper.
swap drives and system comes up fine.
After a day or so now its unstable. While browsing the net suddely everything restarts almost like finder restarts. but in this case it takes all the running programs and services with it. it recovers but almost all the services in the upper bar has vanished. a reboot restores fine until it dies again.
I have run onyx and run everything and resored permissions also run repair via diskmanager.
I keep looking for any tools to help me troubleshoot this. Where would the logs be?
What to do? reinstall from scratch? the copy stuff in from old disk that is still intact. i dont want to do that since i dont know if i have all the media anymore to my software.

First, you don't have a Recovery partition on the boot drive, which you should have. If your model is capable of it, boot into Internet Recovery and reinstall OS X.
Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery
If you still have the problem after reinstalling, proceed as below.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

K7T266Pro2-A - system unstable wid amd athlon xp 1880+?

I have a K7T266Pro2-A motherboard wid an AMD athlon xp 1800+ processor. My main problem is when I load the optimal bios settings to get the processor at 1800+, my system becomes unstable. It works fine at the default speed of 1153 mhz. Anyone know how to fix this?

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i changed my FSB to 166mhz
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System unstable and requires reboot after 24 hours - HELP

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Sorry for the delay and thanks for the response. what I mean by unstable is that the system will not perform as expected. The problem seems to be growing however. It use to only occur after 24 hours of up time. Now it seems to occur after the system goes to sleep. Twice I have put the system to sleep and each time when it wakes, I can not do anything. If I click an application Firefox, Yahoo, iChat, Mail, etc it will not respond. Forcing a quit on the application does nothing. Each time I have been forced to bring the system down hard. -Any help is appreciated.

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System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
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DX Setup Parameters: Not found
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Windows XP Pro in general became rather unstable as it relates to Adobe Creative Suite 4 so I upgraded to a new computer running Windows Vista (Windows 7 wasn't out yet) and it's the 64-bit edition of Vista. Now I will be able to take advantage of all that CS5 has to offer in terms of 64-bit addressing once I upgrade to that version of Adobe CS. I think you may have a corruption in Windows XP.

System Unstable-- Help!

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I installed 10.8.3 on a MacBook Pro last week; system has a Thundebolt Display used as primary monitor, though both monitors are on and in use.
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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
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Superblock.. make my system unstable.

Yo, i tried a install in an old computer and superblock cause gnome to have serious issues and partition are almost broken..
i don't understand what to do with them..
Gparted before partioning : http://i.imgur.com/8L35M0A.png
Gparted when partionnated : http://i.imgur.com/y5RODDU.png
I get space used ,, when i clearly have nothing ..
I tried
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
Not deleting the superblocks..
So i did :
mke2fs -n /dev/sda
/dev/sda is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
61054976 inodes, 244190646 blocks
12209532 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=0
7453 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848
i did :
e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda
e2fsck 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
I wanna remove them from backing up in my partion, or repair them..
Edit : i think, i posted in a wrong section, 1000 sorry.
Last edited by localhostabc (2013-08-31 04:54:32)

i finaly found how to use e2fsck
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e2fsck <SUPERBLOCK> /dev/sda1

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Many applications seem to crash since the last OS update. Many game's, but also mail etc. Most of the times the application simply stops and the iPad returns to the default screen, but every once in a while the app makes the iPad crash completely up to the white Apple logo on a black background. Sometimes there is no audio and the app keeps working. Stopping and restarting the app helps, but 9 out of 10 times the app crashes after a few touch-screen actions.
Is this a known issue with the new update? Should I use the previous vrsion or is there a new one coming up anytime soon?

I have not heard of such an issue, but try these things:
• Try a hard reset - hold the sleep/wake button and the home button simultaneously for about 6 seconds, until the iPad tunes off. Then turn it on again.
• Go to "Settings - General - Reset" and choose "Reset All Settings"
• If it does not help, restore the firmware with iTunes - IMPORTANT, don't let iTunes use one of your backups… set it up as a new device. And don't load the iPad with all Apps at once, first try it without any 3rd party Apps. If it works, start with the Apps you need most, give it a try and if it is still stable, t hen go on with others.
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Please don't forget to mark the topic as "Answered", that helps others when looking for an answer.
enjoy your magic machine

System stability?

I don't understand when people mention system stability, how and what is that? relevance to functioning?
All this stems from a warning from a program called CheckUp that flagged it with this comment: "System: PlaxoABAddln, Input Managers detected. This technology is no longer supported and can make your system unstable"
I contacted the program's support team and ended up with this comment:
"We have received an update from the Engineering team about your issue with the Plaxo Input Manager. Input Managers like the PlaxoABAddin are basically used for customizing the input process from keyboards or other input devices.
However, since some such applications are known to cause system instability, Apple has stopped supporting them since Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.
However, the Plaxo Input Manager does a minimal amount of work in customizing the AB application into the Plaxo information panel. And Input Managers MAY cause instability, but they do not necessarily do so.
Therefore, please ignore the message as there is no need to apprehensive about it. Please let me know if you have any other questions."
Should i be apprehensive?
Can anyone shed a light?

Choggbabaprecious wrote:
I was hoping for a bit more information on why it could make system unstable. Plaxo insists it should not interfere but then why Apple does not support it with Snow Leopard? How does it actively affect system?
All technologies are constantly under review. Some don't work out as well as hoped or cause other, unforeseen problems and difficulties later down the road. When this happens, Apple deprecates the technology and, in most cases, provides an alternate method to accomplish the same thing. The first people they tell are developers who then have at least a couple of years to remove dependencies on the deprecated code.
At some point, the deprecated code will be removed and no one knows how the 3rd party software will react when code that it depends on is no longer there. It could partially work. It could crash. It could make your system unbootable.
In most cases, developers will only modify the code for new versions, requiring an upgrade for the new OS. In some cases (and yes, Adobe and HP, your ears are burning), they developers will not modify the code until it no longer works.

Rosetta emulated apps unstable

Has anyone experienced instability with non-universal apps emulated with Rosetta? I'm finding my new iMac to be a bit unstable compared to my old G4 mac.
The app freezes, force quite does not work either resulting in needing to hard restart the computer.
Have been trying to find out why this otherwise awesome computer is glitchy at times.

Having very similar problems with iPad One...    Many of my apps now close automatically after only being open for a minute or two.. Extremely frustrating... Yesterday it took over 2 minutes for my calendar to open, always has been near instant on...
Web has turn into an snail paced experience...   Wifi is not the issue... Speednet test show ping 21 ms, upload 3.92 Mbps and download at 18.77 Mbps..
Biggest technical issue I have found is RAM useage... Open up a few apps, mail, calendar, USA Today and my free RAM drops below 5 mb, which clearly makes the whole IPAD system unstable...
I use to be able have 20+ apps and NEVER have RAM issues... Something in IOS 5 is driving this issue...
I did have iCloud on the iPad, but that completely destroyed my calendar and address apps, plus brought total chaos to my other Apple hardware (iMac, Mac Air, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS)... Took many hours to delete it...   There could be some lingering issues on the iPad with its tie in to IOS 5...
Clearly the release of iCloud & IOS 5 were premature & we have turned into beta testers,,

Can't get system to boot up

I just installed a new K8N mainboard and AMD 2800+ with a Kingstin 512 dim 400 with hyper X. The computer will turn on but always loops once it gets past the screen with the ide devices listed. It prompts for "start windows normally" but what ever I select it just reboots. I can never get to windows. Help

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Exelent housing, sleeving; alot of plugs and exelent cooling. 12.8V in the 12V rail, making my system unstable. I tested with a multimiter also, and when I adjusted the rheobus to low, the voltage of the 12V rail went up to 12V. and when I turn the rheobus all the way up, I got 12.2V ..... I returned.
doesn't sound so hot, tolerance is usually +/-5% giving a range of 12.6v - 11.4v 12.8v is therefore outside this range.
However a QUALITY power supply only becomes recognised as such with usage, it comes down to your choice, are you willing to be a pioneer.
good luck

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