lockups when idle/stable under load

[ih8gb]

I am running a Celeron 566@850 on an ABIT VH6T mobo. It ran fine and stable after a few days of Quake3 demo looping, 3dmax demo looping, and while running prime95 and seti@home. But after a few minutes of idling or mild work, the system just locks up. It has not locked up once under load. Anyone have an idea what the problem could be?

[Placid]

Welcome.
What other things besides whats in your signature are on your pc?
Os power supply, sound card, etc.
What is your cpu temp?
I am using a vh6t also and had that problem is was the sound card causing it but it will help to know more about your pc.

[William]

you have some power saving turned on that is powering down the cpu or hard drive???? If so, turn them off. That should help.

[Pinky]

William (Jun 15, 2001 01:56 a.m.):
you have some power saving turned on that is powering down the cpu or hard drive???? If so, turn them off. That should help.

Yes, and I have also seen problems with (specifically) windows 2000 and the ACPI settings in the bios causing intermittent lockups. The power saving feature makes plenty of sense though.

[ih8gb]

I'm using win98se. I tried win2k but i had even more lockups. I have a 300w power supply (not sure of the brand), a SB Live! Value sound card, 10 gig Maxtor HD, 19 gig Quantum HD, 12x DVD-ROM, 10x/32x Acer burner, SOHOware NIC, and a D-Link USB NIC. That's pretty much everything else I have.
When idle the cpu was 35C and under load about 47C.
I had all the power saving settings off but still had lockups.

[Pinky]

ih8gb (Jun 15, 2001 10:43 a.m.):
I'm using win98se. I tried win2k but i had even more lockups. I have a 300w power supply (not sure of the brand), a SB Live! Value sound card, 10 gig Maxtor HD, 19 gig Quantum HD, 12x DVD-ROM, 10x/32x Acer burner, SOHOware NIC, and a D-Link USB NIC. That's pretty much everything else I have.
When idle the cpu was 35C and under load about 47C.
I had all the power saving settings off but still had lockups.

Could very well be one of these cards; I personally don't believe in pulling cards, especially if I am not willing to replace one that isn't compatable... I would wonder about your temps, I have similar temps and have nothing but issues with lockups (all temperature related). Although it hasn't worked for me (nothing seems to go smoothly for me with PCs except when I build them for others they work flawlessly), maybe an exhaust fan for the case is in order.

[Placid]

Ok I have the sb live value also.
Here is how I fixed it.
Go into control panel-system-device manager.
Select view devices by type. Find creative misc. devices then under that use proerties and disable the 2 items other than joystick port.

Now reboot and go into the bios.
In the pci-pnp section use manual and disable dma 1 & 3 and set irq 1 & 5 to reserved for isa.

There is a well documented bug with sb live cards and via chipsets. You can visit www.viahardware.com if you want to read more about it.