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Turbo Monkey
Oct 12, 2001
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My windows machine started this behavior a few days ago.

Any time i start a new application (w/ the exception of IE, netscape7, textpad & trillian) my computer basically stops responding for about 2 minutes! :( I've done searches online, updated my machine w/ all the patches, defragged my drive, etc.

I didn't install any new software nor have i changed any hardware, so i can't imagine there are conflicts there, but who knows.

to give you an example of what stalls the machine, it's pretty much every application.
things like:
photoshop
windows media player
winamp
word
quicktime
smartftp
webpages w/ java apps (launches the java panel or whatever)
vegas video

basically everything i use except those i listed first.

any thoughts on this seemingly random behavior?

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Turbo Monkey
Oct 12, 2001
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i'm going to take a look @ the event log & see what's cooking in there...

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Turbo Monkey
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can someone explain what might prompt something like this to appear? It appears that i'm getting them about every 3-4 mins... my system log is full of them :(

thanks
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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: ultra66
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 9/15/2003
Time: 10:16:53 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BAH
Description:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Scsi\ultra661 has old or out-of-date firmware. Reduced performance may result.
Data:
0000: 0010000f 00680001 00000000 8004001a
0010: 00000004 00000000 000023ab 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0030: 00000000 00000009
 
Aug 28, 2003
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ultra 66 would be your hard drive controller, try reinstalling the udma driver. Otherwise back up and reinstall. I used to be a computer enthusiast, and have taken to just formatting and starting over whenever it gets too screwy.
 

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Turbo Monkey
Oct 12, 2001
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Originally posted by WillRidesRigid
ultra 66 would be your hard drive controller, try reinstalling the udma driver. Otherwise back up and reinstall. I used to be a computer enthusiast, and have taken to just formatting and starting over whenever it gets too screwy.
i went to the promise website, grabbed the win2k driver & tried to install it. windows told me that it in fact it wasn't compatible w/ win2k & therefore couldn't install it :(

*shaking head *
 

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Turbo Monkey
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Originally posted by johnbryanpeters
Firmware would be the software resident on the PROM on the controller itself, not the operating system driver.

J
oh - how do i go about changing that? any thoughts?

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binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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Dunno who makes your hard drive but I'd head on over to their website and see if they have a firmware update OR if they have a database of common problems where you can see if someone else has had this and what they did.
 
Originally posted by dump
oh - how do i go about changing that? any thoughts?

- moni
Based on the error message, your disks are SCSI, and I think the controller is the SCSI controller, which I'm guessing is a separate adapter. You'd want to find the web site of the adapter manufacturer and start looking dor a support or downloads link.

One more question: what operating system, and what patch level?

J