9262 - XR5 - Freezing/System Hangs

Well I love my 9262/XR5, but its not without issues. I have been having a problem with system hangs after waking up from sleep, and once or twice while booting up, after everything seemed to load at startup.

Now, last night while trying play a movie from my XR5's HDD over my wireless connection, with my Dell Inspiron 9300, the XR5 froze about 40 seconds into the movie. So I had to shut it off with power button, boot back up, and try again. Then it froze again just trying to access shared files, again with my 9300.

This happened 3 times before I gave up. So now I am thinking that my Gigabyte Wireless card has been the culprit causing the system hangs all along.

Specs in my Signature.

Anyone have any issues like this?

If I can't figure this out, I will reformat and do a clean install.

 

I would recommend to let it Hibernate... rather than Sleep/Standby

Its better to Hibernate.. since it fully shuts down the entire system... rather than leaving standby power.

 

Right, I have had sleep disabled for a few days now. So I don't think that is what is causing it now.

Also, why is my 8800 getting a ration of 5.8, and my memory is 5.5, while others are getting 5.9 for the 8800 and 5.7 for memory.

I know the rating system means very little, but I would think that they should at least my consistant with "identical" machines.

 

How did you get SLI if it isnt available until Feb 08

 

read my sig.

SLI Geforce 8800mGTX 1GB DDR3 2nd in Feb.08

 

A few quick questions...

Are your HDD's in Raid?
It could be the older Dell causing the issue, not the XR5?
The drivers may be the culprit for the WEI?
Could also be the power options that are dumbimg/limiting the system potential by holding some components back perhaps?

My system is literally identical to yours, I'll let you know if I experience any issues like you mentioned. I have a HP nc8430 (Core2duo 7200, 100gb SATAII, 2 gig 667DDRII Ram, ATI X1600 256mb DDRIII) so I will try some things out like wlan etc... with the gigabyte card to test out the transfer rate as the NC8430 is also 1000gb capable on gigabytle lan, and abg wireless.

Awesome 3DMark06 Score!!!

-Coors916

 

Check your power management settings, particularly on your network card. If you have the card set to go to sleep, you could be hanging on a TCP timeout when you wake up and try something.

When it hangs up have you waited to see if it unhangs? Next time it happens give it 5 full minutes to see if it is transient or permanent.

 

Exactly what I meant to say, re: the Power management options. I think by system default, most of the time it is set to turn the network card off to save power.

-Coors916

 

well I will check when I get home, but I have my settings on performance, and plugged in. the dell has the newest drivers for its intel pro wlan card. And it wouldnt be the 1st time it froze during some kind wireless network activity.

PCMW has offered to send me out a new card, and I am thinking of having them send me the intel N card, not another gigbyte.

 

One other possibility is your wireless router is failing and causing network hangs. Might be worth keeping a running ping on each laptop to the router to see if it blinks / drops during a system hang.