Random lockups - help needed!!

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Unit21 wrote:
Once again I turn to the vast knowledge of the Amiga.org- members for help. ;-)

I got my old Amiga 4000T & Co. out of the closet the other day. The Amiga is fitted with a PPC and a Mediator. The Gfx-card is a Voodoo3 2000.
It also has some TV-card and an RTL-based network card.
Both the Cyberstorm and the Amiga mainboard is fully populated with Memory.

When using the machine it seems to hang at random. I cannot spot the error,
and snoopdos is of no help cause the machine crashes with a black screen or freezes.

It has an IBM deskstar ATA100 IDE-drive for some reason (not SCSI).
This drive is connected with a 40 pin IDE-cable.  Can this be a problem? Should I connect it with an 80pin cable instead??

I remember that random lockups were usually connected with dodgy RAM. Does anyone remember if the CyberStorm uses FPM or EDO RAM?

All creative advice is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance!!

I was gonna say that I found the cause of my Random lock ups... but then I noticed that you can't uninstall Windows Media player :lol:

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Hammer wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Unit21 wrote:
Once again I turn to the vast knowledge of the Amiga.org- members for help. ;-)

I got my old Amiga 4000T & Co. out of the closet the other day. The Amiga is fitted with a PPC and a Mediator. The Gfx-card is a Voodoo3 2000.
It also has some TV-card and an RTL-based network card.
Both the Cyberstorm and the Amiga mainboard is fully populated with Memory.

When using the machine it seems to hang at random. I cannot spot the error,
and snoopdos is of no help cause the machine crashes with a black screen or freezes.

It has an IBM deskstar ATA100 IDE-drive for some reason (not SCSI).
This drive is connected with a 40 pin IDE-cable.  Can this be a problem? Should I connect it with an 80pin cable instead??

I remember that random lockups were usually connected with dodgy RAM. Does anyone remember if the CyberStorm uses FPM or EDO RAM?

All creative advice is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance!!

I was gonna say that I found the cause of my Random lock ups... but then I noticed that you can't uninstall Windows Media player :lol:

Have you installed Media Player 9?

I don't know, What ever Crap comes with XP... now I use Winamp 2.95.. no more random freezing...

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that_punk_guy wrote:

Tomas wrote:

As I recall, Windows XP Pro only comes Media Player 8 and MS Windows 2003 comes with Media Player 9.

I thought windows 2003 was a server OS?? Can anyone tell me why exactly it is bundled with a mediaplayer??  :-o

Because it would make far too much sense for a server to be focused on server tasks only :-D Strange that Win2K comes with the standard no-skins Media Player. Must have been an unforseen attack of good sense on MS's part.

MediaPlayer2 was (and still is) the pinicle MicroSoft's software acheivements... no wonder it had to be shuffled off to that big hard drive in the sky, and replaced with one that doesn't work.