Random Win7 locks-ups/freezes on playback
Posted: 14 Apr 2010 11:00
Hardware:
MB: ASUS M4A78
CPU: Phenom x4 965
GPU: ATI Radeon HD4850 512Mb(Cube 3d)
RAM: Corsair DDR3 4GB
Software tested:
BIOS: several versions - last one v2304
Windows 7 Professional: build - 7600.16385.amd64fre.win7_rtm.090713-1255
VLC: from v0.9.6 - v1.0.5
ATI Catalyst drivers from 9.10 - 10.3
Realtek audio drivers from 6.0.1.5859 - 6.0.1.6050
Problem description:
When doing playback in VLC, it freezes. Sound and picture stops, mouse and keyboard is still responsive for few seconds, i can click on other active windows, but after few seconds Windows become completely unresponsive. As soon as problem starts my HDD activity led turns on and stay active. Only way to get out of this is hardware reset.
I looked around in many forums - it always end up same way - "probably a hardware issue" and no solution
I do not agree, cause WMP11 or Quicktime player or Winamp, or Windows Classic Player do not have such issues,. It might be drivers. As it is complete hang of PC it might be related to interrupt handling.
i know this information is insufficient to give you idea about where the problem is, so my question is there some kind of debug mode/build that I could use to get all necessary information about these crashes? So that ether to find out is this VLC problem or not, of if it is - how to fix it.
Thanks.
MB: ASUS M4A78
CPU: Phenom x4 965
GPU: ATI Radeon HD4850 512Mb(Cube 3d)
RAM: Corsair DDR3 4GB
Software tested:
BIOS: several versions - last one v2304
Windows 7 Professional: build - 7600.16385.amd64fre.win7_rtm.090713-1255
VLC: from v0.9.6 - v1.0.5
ATI Catalyst drivers from 9.10 - 10.3
Realtek audio drivers from 6.0.1.5859 - 6.0.1.6050
Problem description:
When doing playback in VLC, it freezes. Sound and picture stops, mouse and keyboard is still responsive for few seconds, i can click on other active windows, but after few seconds Windows become completely unresponsive. As soon as problem starts my HDD activity led turns on and stay active. Only way to get out of this is hardware reset.
I looked around in many forums - it always end up same way - "probably a hardware issue" and no solution
I do not agree, cause WMP11 or Quicktime player or Winamp, or Windows Classic Player do not have such issues,. It might be drivers. As it is complete hang of PC it might be related to interrupt handling.
i know this information is insufficient to give you idea about where the problem is, so my question is there some kind of debug mode/build that I could use to get all necessary information about these crashes? So that ether to find out is this VLC problem or not, of if it is - how to fix it.
Thanks.