ben10 Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 In any hard drive read/write heavy situation, my system has a good chance of freezing and giving me the spinning wheel. No KP, no errors, simply frozen. Windows respond for a minute, then, although I can still move the mouse, I cannot interact with anything on the screen. I have to hard reboot. I have tried a couple different distros, (iAtkos and XxX) many versions of drivers, and the problem remains. I get these freezes when installing large programs, adding music to itunes, moving files around, and similar operations. Sometimes the system hangs within seconds of an operation starting, sometimes it takes longer, sometimes (rarely) it doesnt freeze. This problem has me baffled, as I get no feedback from my system as to where the problem is originating from, but as it freezes during hard drive operations, it seems as though my hardware and possibly the NForceATA kext or the Voodoo 1.0 kernel arent friendly. I have tried both NforceATA and NforceATATest, with and without HPET, with and without patched DSDT, with and without CPU overclocked, with and without cpus=1 and maxmem=2048 and a number of other tweaks and techniques, all with the same dismal result. I have had some really good success, and have gotten Steam games, 3d applications, video, everything running top notch. These system hangs are my biggest issue. Any advice on diagnostics or troubleshooting would be welcome, thanks so much. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142106-freezes-in-1055-with-voodoo-and-780i-mobo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
haroot Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 DO you still get these hangs? I get similar hangs. My system hangs when I play cod4 for mac more than a few hours. It also hangs when I try to copy base.pkg from XxX 10.5.6 dvd to my hd, I hade Sata DVD RW and IDE DVD ROM, which I had to use to install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142106-freezes-in-1055-with-voodoo-and-780i-mobo/#findComment-1068455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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