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And by 'locks up' I mean completely locks up. Even the numlock light won't toggle.
This happens at completely random times.
I have updated the BIOS of the MoBo and the firmware of the SSD numerous times, because it used to hang for a few minutes and then just continue what it was doing, but now it just hangs, so this is not an improvement.
I now run BIOS 1850, firmware 2.11 and Intel RST 10.6, all the latest at time of writing. OS is Win7 x64
I honestly don't know how to make this easier to answer, so please comment and I'll edit accordingly.
Zsub
Posted 2011-08-22T12:40:54.980
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What operating system are you using? If Windows, try my procedure and report back here.
– Tamara Wijsman – 2011-08-22T12:44:35.5832Yes, it's Windows, added tags. I will try that, but probably won't work because the system is completely unresponsive. – Zsub – 2011-08-22T12:49:00.567
This will surely work, given that a hang is almost always driver related. And yes, even your Numlock light needs to pass through a keyboard driver. Trust me, I've used this many times... – Tamara Wijsman – 2011-08-22T12:52:42.933
Sure :) So I'll start that commandline-thingy, and I can just browse and if and when it locks up I can just whack 'enter' (even if the cmd window isn't in the foreground)? – Zsub – 2011-08-22T12:57:14.360
@Tom I probably need to have the cmd running in the foreground all the time. Your guide says "Right after your system stops hanging" but with this there is no such point. It just hangs. – Zsub – 2011-08-22T14:29:11.480
Yes, you can browse as that's not heavy activity. As you said "and then just continue what it was doing" I thought it means that it comes back after some minutes. If it really hangs force a crash instead so we get a dump to analyze instead; although they don't reveal the problem as easily as tracing software does...
– Tamara Wijsman – 2011-08-22T15:10:51.490Have you ever formatted the computer after performing said firmware/BIOS updates? It's possible that this is a driver issue rather then a hardware issue. Boot up into some kind of live Linux distro and see if the issue persists in a different OS. – Breakthrough – 2011-08-22T17:45:31.810
I'll bet it just will not hang now. Enabled kernel dumps, running your first trace command and enabled Ctrl+Scroll+Scroll, so I should be able to get something out of it now, I guess. @Breakthrough: I actually haven't. I could run Ubuntu for a few days, see if it breaks. I'll just finish this test first, though. – Zsub – 2011-08-22T17:49:31.943
By pure accident I have found out my issues where related to memory incompatibility :( I'm voting to close this. – Zsub – 2012-02-24T11:02:24.853