Hi everyone, I have an annoying lockup problem on my Pegasos 2 G4 system.

When I am using Remote Desktop and playing back audio - either through Remote Desktop's audio forwarding or through ANR (streaming from the net), eventually my system will totally lock up. You will still hear the music in the speakers repeating itself in a frozen state. The only solution is to physically reset the machine. Because it is a total lockup, there is nothing in the debug logs indicating any error.

I have tried just about everything under the sun to fix this problem including:
-different graphics card
-different audio card
-different RAM
-re-seating all components on motherboard
-re-formatting and reinstalling MorphOS 1.4.4
-updating AHI to latest release
-changing tcp/ip stacks
-changing keyboards
-adjusting SFS cache settings
At this point none of the above has solved the problem. My machine can work fine for hours and then all of a sudden totally freeze, or within 15-45 minutes it can freeze.

If I don't play back audio my machine will be fine-no freeze. It seems to be related somehow to TCP/IP traffic, continuously streaming music, and using Remote Desktop and/or other software that is putting load on the machine such as IBrowse.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? My warranty is quickly coming to an end on my Pegasos 2 and I am wondering if this could be a hardware issue.

Strange, I had it happen using the onboard sound and attempting to
play more then one audio output app at a time, but since using a SB
live card and the 6.0 AHI its working great.

I tried a SB Live! with the latest AHI but it made no difference...

Darren

Do you have the pegasos mixer in the startup? I had problems with my SBLive audio until I put the pegasos mixer back. I'm not sure exactly what it does, but I was told it patches the OS.

Does this happen under MOS 1.4.2?

That's all I can think of, otherwise I think you have proven a hardware problem.


Good luck!

Hi Matt! I do have the mixer in startup, it's working properly. This happens under older MOS versions and also it happened on the Peg-1. (when I had that...). Another person has confirmed this as well.

I don't think it's a hardware issue as I can run PegXmac or Linux with no freezes...it's only in MorphOS.

Henes has given me a testing program that is writing data to the debug log to try and pin-point the freeze, so we'll see what happens. Currently I'm still alive :) But the crash could happen at any time :)

I'll keep everyone posted.

Thanks!

Have tried using Realtek network card? Some poeple have problems with via-rhine driver

Yes, I have, sorry I forgot to add that to my original post. But since I have been testing this problem over the last few days, I have received some very nice help from MOS Devs, and I Have been advised to wait for the next MOS update.

Thanks to the MOS DEV's for the great support and also to everyone on #morphos who has helped me and also tried to replicate the issue!