T22 freezes after a long standby

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tomer · #1 Post by **tomer** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:07 am

my T22 constantly freezing (which forces me to hard reboot it by the power button), after i take it out of standby mode and start playing a video file.
I'm constantly running Mobmeter and this happens usually when the CPU and HDD temps are low at around 33 degrees celcius.
Is it trying to say.."I'm dying....put me back to sleep.."...?

truk · #2 Post by **truk** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:13 pm

You say it only does this when playing a movie afterwards? Try making it freeze and then leave it for 10-20 min to see if it does something. Often times a long freeze will wake up in a BSOD, pointing to an OS error.

tomer · #3 Post by **tomer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:44 am

I've just tried that..nothing happened. the only thing that works is the keyboard control over the special functions such as the monitor's brightness and the light at the top of monitor which I'm able to turn on. the fan is also working. .any idea?

#4 Post by **rkawakami** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:55 am

Can you CTRL-ALT-DEL and bring up the Task Manager during the "freeze"?

Is it a particular video file that is causing the problem or ALL video files?

Does the file(s) play normally IF the laptop was never put into standby mode?

tomer · #5 Post by **tomer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:52 am

rkawakami wrote:Can you CTRL-ALT-DEL and bring up the Task Manager during the "freeze"?

Is it a particular video file that is causing the problem or ALL video files?

Does the file(s) play normally IF the laptop was never put into standby mode?

nope, can't do anything . all video files cause this problem after a long standby.
If I restart it and play the file, it plays normally.

Purcy · #6 Post by **Purcy** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:49 am

what player do you use for video files??

tomer · #7 Post by **tomer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:05 am

Purcy wrote:what player do you use for video files??

winamp

Purcy · #8 Post by **Purcy** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:26 am

just a suggestion here, but have you tried uninstalling Winamp through Add/Remove Programs and then re-installing it? The video files you mention, are they DVD vid files or .mpeg, .flv??

EDIT: this is an interesting thread possibly about that:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=163105

I suggest you try another media player.

tomer · #9 Post by **tomer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:30 am

avi files or mpeg. normally codes with divx. why would uninstalling and reinstalling winamp should help...? this doesn't happen all the time and i'm quite sure it will happen again if I use VLC to play video files after a long standby

tomer · #10 Post by **tomer** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:32 pm

tomer wrote:avi files or mpeg. normally codes with divx. why would uninstalling and reinstalling winamp should help...? this doesn't happen all the time and i'm quite sure it will happen again if I use VLC to play video files after a long standby

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tried VLC instead of Winamp..same thing.
Also noticed , this doesn't appy to hibernation.
any idea..?

#11 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:00 am

My gut feeling says it's the memory (being a memory test engineer, that's not a huge leap

). There have been problems that I know of for some memories when exiting the "power down" mode which I believe is used in standby. If you can, either swap out all of your modules with others or if you have two, remove one of them. Repeat your standby/view video file sequence and see if that helps.

Your comment about hibernation not doing this is leading me to this conclusion. In standby, the memory is active, albeit at a lower power level. Hibernation, on the other hand, copies your memory's contents into a disk file for retrieval later on, before powering down everything.

tomer · #12 Post by **tomer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:29 am

rkawakami wrote:My gut feeling says it's the memory (being a memory test engineer, that's not a huge leap ). There have been problems that I know of for some memories when exiting the "power down" mode which I believe is used in standby. If you can, either swap out all of your modules with others or if you have two, remove one of them. Repeat your standby/view video file sequence and see if that helps.

Your comment about hibernation not doing this is leading me to this conclusion. In standby, the memory is active, albeit at a lower power level. Hibernation, on the other hand, copies your memory's contents into a disk file for retrieval later on, before powering down everything.

thanks. i've tried removing one module and switching between them with same results..works fine until i put it to standby and play again...i did notice something new - this only happens with 720x400 and 720x544 video files..! I'm using fffdshow ver Oct 12 2004 ...could this be the problem? i'll try to upgrade it and see if there's any difference.

tomer · #13 Post by **tomer** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:32 pm

tomer wrote: thanks. i've tried removing one module and switching between them with same results..works fine until i put it to standby and play again...i did notice something new - this only happens with 720x400 and 720x544 video files..! I'm using fffdshow ver Oct 12 2004 ...could this be the problem? i'll try to upgrade it and see if there's any difference.

i've upgraded fffdshow to the latest stable version with no change..

truk · #14 Post by **truk** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:09 am

Have you tried reinstalling your video card drivers? I've heard of a similar problem with sound playback due to the sound driver not sleeping properly.

tomer · #15 Post by **tomer** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:24 am

truk wrote:Have you tried reinstalling your video card drivers? I've heard of a similar problem with sound playback due to the sound driver not sleeping properly.

yep..didn't work. any other ideas..?
thanks

bigred08046 · #16 Post by **bigred08046** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:41 pm

Sounds like my T22 problem. My problem was overheng. Removed and cleaned fan and replaced thermal paste with artic freeze. Problem solved...Its been better than a month now anyway.

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