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Title: Lockups
Post by: usarmy on April 26, 2001, 02:05:00 PM

Seems that a lot of us have been experiencing screen lockups in AH lately?

What Gives?

Title: Lockups
Post by: Ripsnort on April 26, 2001, 02:18:00 PM

I've seen a large variety of reasons for lock ups, everything from the latest spread of HHAHAHAHA: Snow White and the seven Dwarfs Virus to needing updated drivers, to using WAV recording in RW...

Title: Lockups
Post by: Ripsnort on April 26, 2001, 02:20:00 PM

Oh, mine, I might add, was due to new system, then I finally squeezed it down to not enough ram...added 128 meg and Viola, no probs (bad simm module?)...anyway, it could be a variety of reasons, whats the last thing you loaded, or updated, or executed on your system prior to lock ups?

Title: Lockups
Post by: Citabria on April 26, 2001, 04:04:00 PM

AH screenfreezes consistenlty on my pc.

voodoo3
p3 550
asus p2bf mb.
256mb ram
soundblaster
us robotics modem

Title: Lockups
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on April 26, 2001, 04:55:00 PM

at about 70 sorties i get one lockup

Title: Lockups
Post by: hblair on April 26, 2001, 05:03:00 PM

I was having 'em too. Did a format and reload, and they are gone.

Title: Lockups
Post by: bloom25 on April 27, 2001, 01:07:00 AM

I've seen a lot of posts about lockups recently as well.  I know it doesn't help you guys, but I've never had AH lockup on me.  I've been dumped to the desktop a few times, but never a lockup.  This would lead me to believe that the lockups are related to IRQ conflicts, drivers, or heat.

RW and DX8 also have a nasty habit of causing problems unless wav recording is used instead of directsound.



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Title: Lockups
Post by: Degas on April 27, 2001, 07:46:00 AM

After weeks of not one lockup, had two yesterday.

Absolutely no idea why.  I'm using wav in RW, and have Dx 8.0.  One was in the tower, one in flight.

I defrag and scandisk almost every other day.  Got 256 mb pc 133 ram.

Have these gotten worse sinc Hi Tech took the servers down for an update last time?

Title: Lockups
Post by: CRASH on April 27, 2001, 08:29:00 AM

I've had 1 ah lock up, and that was recently.  Pretty sure it was due to heat.  We had a bit of a heat wave in Jersey last week or so, and my case is in a cabinet.  On the other hand I did have a case of screen jitters recently...think it's gone now but havn't been playin much so I'm not sure.

CRASH

Title: Lockups
Post by: 715 on April 27, 2001, 09:14:00 PM

I used to have several hard lockups in AH every time I played.  I installed new sound card drivers and haven't had a single lockup in weeks.

715A

Title: Lockups
Post by: Wardog on April 28, 2001, 03:59:00 PM

I also used to have them..

I had 2 problems, my AWE62 sound card had to have the IRQ and DMA set manually in the BIOS.

Problem number 2 i would have never found if i hadnt used a program to check my memory. This program told me i had errors in it, replaced memory and that fixed it.

Dog out..............

Title: Lockups
Post by: Spatula on April 28, 2001, 07:35:00 PM

I had bad lockup problems too and i tried *all* sorts of things to try cure it, but the one thing which worked (and havent had a single lockup since) was to remove 2 of my 3 hard-drives. The power they suck up must be pretty large. Not enough current to the video card (espc gforce cards) is a very common cause of lockup.

So either upgrade the power supply or remove any extranious peripherals.