Daily IE lockup...

[Chucky Cheese]

POWER

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i believe S1 is PM by APM(..ie advanced power management)

what worked for me was to set the ACPI flag to on/yes in the bios, set POS to S1 and the video options to suspend. the rest of the timers for anything i disabled and i use the power options within windows to set.

cc

[Kooldino]

Guess what happened to me this morning? Another fab IE lockup! :-)

Oh, I forgot to mention, when it locks and I go to shut down, "MsgApp" is hung and needs to be terminated.

I'm really not convinced that this is a power issue.

[Paddy]

Hey, about:mozilla makes a nice change to about:blank. It's a shame that about:boobies didn't work

[Kooldino]

Ok, so this morning I tried something different. I loaded an instance of windows explorer, and then typed in a URL. Worked like a champ. No problem whatsoever. Then I IE, and bang. It hung. Here's what was running when it hung...


smss.exe 500
csrss.exe 556
winlogon.exe 588
services.exe 632
lsass.exe 644
svchost.exe 808
svchost.exe 832
StyleXPService.exe 860
svchost.exe 1016
svchost.exe 1044
spoolsv.exe 1072
avgserv.exe 1336
CTsvcCDA.EXE 1348
inetd32.exe 1376
nvsvc32.exe 1436
nutsrv4.exe 1588
Explorer.EXE 1852
devldr32.exe 1896
NWTRAY.EXE 232
DAMon.exe 364
avgcc32.exe 352
NLNOTES.EXE 1176
nwrdaemn.EXE 1692
nupdate.EXE 1728
namgr.EXE 1792
nWEB.EXE 1908
nhldaemn.EXE 1360
EXCEL.EXE 1472
Winamp.exe 1088
vs.exe 1220
putty.exe 1196
CMD.EXE 1952
iexplore.exe 180
pv.exe 840

[Kooldino]

Today, I left IE open overnight. The IE Window that I left open acts normally, and I can surf with it. When I try to launch a new one...freeze.

And again, if I launch windows explorer and type in a URL, everything is kosher.

Ok, check THIS out...if i let the newly launched IE window "sit" there for a minute, the "e" logo will change into a generic white program icon (as if it's not responding). If I wait a few minutes more, and surf the web in a different window, the NEW window (that was just "locked") will start responding.

EDIT:
and see if THIS doesn't seem odd...

C:\Documents and Settings\dlodico>pv ie*

iexplore.exe 2044
iexplore.exe 1212
iexplore.exe 1016

those are the ie processes I have running. But I have 4 IE windows open (one of which that was open by running explorer.exe and then typing in a URL). Is that how it SHOULD be?

[Kooldino]

I FOUND it! Every day I would come in and try to kill a few processes to see if it would make things respond normally. Well, this morning I got it. The culprit was "DAMon.exe". I killed it with that nifty process viewer program (see page 1), and now everything is kosher.

It appears to be some sort of DELL program, but what it does I don't know. However, if I right click on the EXE and check out the info, it says "MessageApp MFC Application", which was what wouldn't die when I would try to reboot...I believe I mentioned this earlier.

Well, I uninstalled Dell's preinstalled "support software", and damon.exe seems to be gone from the reg and the disk. Serves me right for keeping Dell software on the PC.

[Paddy]

me right for keeping Dell software on the PC.

Consider yourself burnt