System Lockups Resolved!!!

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aftermath

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I'm sure some of you have read my previous posts about my system lockups. It was really pissing me off. Random lockups, what a bummer...is it the machine?, is it that. Some of you were having them, most not!!! No one knew what was going on...Then I stumbled across something about hyper-threading and USB modems. I put one and one together, disabled "Hyper-Threading" in the BIOS (Which I think alot of you don't have), and I haven't hung since...10 Hours connected on the trot with DC++ on the ball. Holding thumbs, but I think I've cracked it>>>>>
 
me got fixed too, see "she hangs thread" also got hyper threading thingy, but i got fixed by doing rodents registry fix.... I LOVE YOU ALL
 
aaaaaaargh spoke too soon, just hung... ok aftermath, tried your hyperthreading trick, will let you know
 
While this may fix the problem you are effectively forced to under-utilise your CPU. I hope that if HT is the problem that Sentech don't take it as the end all solution, they should release an updated driver/firmware that fixes the bug.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Perdition</i>
<br />While this may fix the problem you are effectively forced to under-utilise your CPU. I hope that if HT is the problem that Sentech don't take it as the end all solution, they should release an updated driver/firmware that fixes the bug.
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Yes, indeed! If HT is the problem, at least someone there might now have an idea "where to start looking" ... who writes the drivers, MCCI? They should probably be at least notified, either directly or via Sentech. (I'm still experiencing hanging problems, BTW .. and come to think of it, all the PCs that have had the hanging problem have been HT PCs).
 
Sounds like a race condition to me ! Depening on which CPU core finishes the driver code first, you surf or crash.

Now if only TheRoDent had a bit more success, then we can rewrite the code.

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CONFIRMED!!!! disabled ht and have been solid now for bout 13hrs
 
Now all we need is Rodent or someone to write us a decent driver where we can have HT enabled.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by nroets</i>
<br />Sounds like a race condition to me ! Depening on which CPU core finishes the driver code first, you surf or crash.

Now if only TheRoDent had a bit more success, then we can rewrite the code.

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You may not be too far off the mark here. What may be happening is that two threads executing on the CPU are simultaneously trying to access a specific resource (perhaps the modem). One thread waits for the other to release the resource and vice versa resulting in a deadlock. This is more than likely the result of the driver and given the number of people that have hyper-threading capable P4's (2.4C and above) there must be a driver revision available to fix this.
 
Disabled HT and so far so good, 14+ hours and no lock-ups.

They'll surely have to release a new driver, esp. if http://www.woosh.com/ are going to be using the same driver.
 
hahaha you P4 whores

i r l33t

haven't crashed once in over 9 weeks (occasional restart due to nice software I downloaded from the net, ahahahahhaaha)
 
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