Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone else can replicate this?
After ruling out my antivirus, sound card, and other drivers, I finally figured out that it was the new Marvell Yukon Gigabit Network Interface driver that was causing my system to freeze (hard freeze requiring the reset button to recover rather than just using Task Manager).
I'm using the Marvell Yukon and have the NVIDIA network adapter disabled because I've read that the NVIDIA is even more screwy.
Please see my signature for specs. The only other possible variables that I haven't ruled out is my network hardware (Linksys router, Linksys GB switch, Linksys Wireless Access Point).
Anyways, Marvell just released a new driver: v8.35.2.3 (7/20/2005)
Whenever I would stream Quicktime movies with this driver installed, about 80% of the time, the system would lock up hard. For those movies that wouldn't cause a system freeze on their own, they would almost always freeze it if I then went to another Firefox window and began downloading a large file from the web while the Quicktime movie continued to download/stream. First the window would freeze, then the mouse, then sometimes the internal speaker would begin to beep and then get stuck on a piercing eternal wail. . .
I moved my sound card around, I installed the AMD CPU drivers. I tried not using my sound card at all (yanked it out). I tried disabling antivirus. Finally, I tried rolling back the network driver, and this fixed it. Version 7.21.2.3 (8/19.2004) still allows me to play Quicktime movies without locking up the system.
Here are two movies that I could count on to lock up my system quickly and reliably if I was running the newer driver (8.35.2.3):
High Tension Trailer (choose the "medium" size option to fully replicate my choices).
Dark Water Trailer (again, choose the "medium" size option).
Edit: This trailer locks up even a healthy computer. The "medium" quicktime stream is flawed. I tried it on my laptop and it locks up too in both IE and Firefox.
Even with the new driver, I could watch some Quicktime movies. It seemed like the ones with the snazzy interface that hides the generic Quicktime interface would run more reliably than others. But, with that new network driver, there were some I just could not play. With the older driver, I can play them all. . . though "Dark Water" still sometimes crashes (softly, with a "Mozilla must close" error message) if I try to stream it while downloading a large file in another window. All others seem to work now just fine without a hitch.
Can anyone with a similar setup replicate this?
That new driver is trouble! And it's now being offered on WindowsUpdate!
Best Regards,
H
I was wondering if anyone else can replicate this?
After ruling out my antivirus, sound card, and other drivers, I finally figured out that it was the new Marvell Yukon Gigabit Network Interface driver that was causing my system to freeze (hard freeze requiring the reset button to recover rather than just using Task Manager).
I'm using the Marvell Yukon and have the NVIDIA network adapter disabled because I've read that the NVIDIA is even more screwy.
Please see my signature for specs. The only other possible variables that I haven't ruled out is my network hardware (Linksys router, Linksys GB switch, Linksys Wireless Access Point).
Anyways, Marvell just released a new driver: v8.35.2.3 (7/20/2005)
Whenever I would stream Quicktime movies with this driver installed, about 80% of the time, the system would lock up hard. For those movies that wouldn't cause a system freeze on their own, they would almost always freeze it if I then went to another Firefox window and began downloading a large file from the web while the Quicktime movie continued to download/stream. First the window would freeze, then the mouse, then sometimes the internal speaker would begin to beep and then get stuck on a piercing eternal wail. . .
I moved my sound card around, I installed the AMD CPU drivers. I tried not using my sound card at all (yanked it out). I tried disabling antivirus. Finally, I tried rolling back the network driver, and this fixed it. Version 7.21.2.3 (8/19.2004) still allows me to play Quicktime movies without locking up the system.
Here are two movies that I could count on to lock up my system quickly and reliably if I was running the newer driver (8.35.2.3):
High Tension Trailer (choose the "medium" size option to fully replicate my choices).
Dark Water Trailer (again, choose the "medium" size option).
Edit: This trailer locks up even a healthy computer. The "medium" quicktime stream is flawed. I tried it on my laptop and it locks up too in both IE and Firefox.
Even with the new driver, I could watch some Quicktime movies. It seemed like the ones with the snazzy interface that hides the generic Quicktime interface would run more reliably than others. But, with that new network driver, there were some I just could not play. With the older driver, I can play them all. . . though "Dark Water" still sometimes crashes (softly, with a "Mozilla must close" error message) if I try to stream it while downloading a large file in another window. All others seem to work now just fine without a hitch.
Can anyone with a similar setup replicate this?
That new driver is trouble! And it's now being offered on WindowsUpdate!
Best Regards,
H