Comp locking up
Yeah I meant 5.6, doh! Anyway, I went about 5 days straight, then bam it happened again last night! GRRR, so frustrating! For those 5 days I believe I was torrenting, but last night I wasn't. I dunno what that has to do with anything, except maybe the HD going to sleep, but my torrent drive and my Windows drive are separate physical drives... and I believe it has locked up while torrenting once before. I'll have to look into my PM settings when I get home from work, it's about the only thing I haven't looked into yet...
UPDATE: OK, after trying everything I could possibly think of, I finally narrowed it down to drivers for the onboard network card. I was reading on other boards that people were getting the lockups with certain drivers, so they had to roll them back. I checked and there was recently an update, so I installed the new ones and haven't had a lock up in about 2 weeks. PHEW!
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Glad you figured it out. I've had Windows mess me up with a RAID driver update on my Abit A7N motherboard. I had to decline that "update" during subsequent Windows updates for a month, until another one was released that worked properly. Now Windows lets you officially decline an update so you don't have to keep going through the routine.
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I've had a lot of issues with Windows Driver updates so I tell clients never to install them. MS's drivers tend to be generic and not necessarily a good match for your hardware. It's always best to download the driver from the manufacturer.
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Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
I've had a lot of issues with Windows Driver updates so I tell clients never to install them. MS's drivers tend to be generic and not necessarily a good match for your hardware. It's always best to download the driver from the manufacturer.
Ditto, especially sound and graphics drivers.