From: Ronald W. Heiby (heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 13:55:42 EST
Hello ThinkPad,
Things were going along just fine, at least for Win98SE, on my 770ED.
Then, I had an impending hard drive failure and things started getting
weird. I transferred my files to backups and a loaner hard drive while
getting my HD replaced under warranty. Some time during the period I
had the loaner drive installed, something happened to sound on my TP.
Sound still comes out of the speakers just fine, no problem. I can
play MP3 files. I can play WAV files. I can play them in various
pieces of software, just as a few weeks ago.
However, if I play more than just a couple minutes worth of sound, my
system completely locks up -- no keystrokes are recognized (including
caps lock and ctrl-alt-del), no mouse movement or clicks are
recognized, no sound comes out, and the power switch is ignored. I
need to hit the reset button to get any response.
This happens whether the system is on the dock or not. I decided that
since this had just recently started, I must have loaded some software
onto my system that was squirrely. So, when my replacement HD came
back, I restored an older backup of my C: and D: partition onto it
(the partitions where I install OS and software), then copied across
only those data files that I had changed. I had resolved to make only
one change at a time, with a full backup of C: and D: before each
change.
Well, I didn't get that far. Running with my system files of a couple
weeks ago, I've still got the problem -- before making any updates or
installs. I tried downloading the last version available of the audio
utilities from IBM and installed them over the top of what I had.
(That process involves uninstalling the previous version, apparently.)
This had no obvious affect.
I have looked and my audio is configured to use IRQ5, which is
reported as being used by only audio, with no conflicts.
In the mean time, when the same system is booted under Linux, I can
play audio for hours. Unfortunately, I have not yet configured the
Linux audio system to really make use of the hardware, using the
default SB16 compatibility configuration, so the sound quality is not
quite as good as under Windows. I have yet to see Linux lock up my
system.
Help!!!???!!! Thanks.
Ron.
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