Re: Occasional problem with XP freezing or spontaneously starting from standbye

On Dec 12, 10:30 am, Robin Bignall <docro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My system is based on an ASUS P5E3 Deluxe board with SP3; built a
couple of years ago, works perfectly, Except:

-- Occasionally it freezes on booting. This is indicated by
SmartDoctor's activity bars just stopping moving. Normally,
SmartDoctor is one of the first programs whose splash screen appears,
and this splash screen is usually the last to vanish, after everything
else is loaded. A look at the icon area at the time of the freeze
shows everything to be loaded except SmartDoctor and Kaspersky IS. The
freeze is total: no keys work and a hard reboot is required, which
ALWAYS works perfectly. Event viewer shows nothing.

-- after it's been put into standbye I often return to find windows
running. I know that this ASUS board is impossible to set to ignore
interrupts from USB devices: in fact I depend on that, usually, to
return from standbye by tapping the space bar or moving the mouse. But
then it always presents the Windows logon screen. These errant
returns from standbye when I'm not present seem to bypass the logon
requirement.

Comments, anyone?
--
Robin Bignall
(BrE)
Herts, England

Could be software in related OS conflicts. Apart from kludge and hair-
pulling, binary backups of the OS can be useful to test for those
types anomalies. A sort of restore concept but in absolute terms,
ground zero being the first backup known for a good install (without
potential internet interference or subsequent additions/installs). I
keep three such, and try and build on them carefully as program
selections evolve. It's obvious hardware isn't likely a culprit if
something that's been installed causes newly-surfaced problems that
weren't there. Hardware and related driver problems *can* tend to be
more direct, cut-&-dry in a spontaneous sense of disregard for
whatever else is going on the CPU registers. Questionable qualify and
ill-matched power supply issues have been the longest lingering in my
experience. Most other hardware since W95, a reasonable expectation
for names like ASUS, is gratefully electrically sound engineering.
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