Topic: FF800 with Thinkpad T61p - Performance ok, but system hangs randomly
I've set up this new laptop and just testing with audio in foobar2000 and other apps. Works pretty good, but for some reason the system hangs after some random amount of playing.
-Using the SIIG FW800 expresscard, with default windows drivers (unibrain didn't work).
-Windows XP SP2 with updates and some tweaks from tested nLite build. Pretty minimal, but stable.
-Processor sched on Background services
-set power scheme to Max Performance. Maybe I should try disabling speed/throttling in BIOS?
-installed a couple thinkpad utilities; power manager, hard drive active protection system
-installed AntiVir antivirus and very light Kerio personal firewall 2.1.5
-video driver is default forceware 156.85, using Quadro FX 570M
Any ideas?
I also noticed in device manager that the PCMCIA adapter is Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II) or compatible cardbus controller. I think I've seen on this forum to stay away from Ricoh? But PCMCIA != express card... Though I couldn't get it to recognize my Startech.com FW800 PCMCIA card yet.
edit: Well disabling speed step in the bios may have done it. I'll confirm after playing for a day
edit: Ok it didn't do anything. Playback was fine for ~10 min before system hangs. Got my hopes up
edit: also wanted to note this is not a BSOD. The screen freezes, and the audio becomes locked so it makes alot of noise from the speakers.