Strange freezes

• Jan 11, 2013 - 18:10

I have been having this problem for some months now. I am still using 1.2..

I generally run 4 programs:
Musescore
Vbuzzer (my internet telephone)
Outlook 2002
Chrome browser.

As I am running these i will suddenly get a freeze of the computer which necessitates a hard shut down and re-boot.

I have been blaming Outlook and Chrome, each of which seem to have some problems.

Today however, I realized that there may be some related MuseScore problem. This is that, freeze or not, when I close down MS and then, perhaps the next day, re-boot it, it does not reload the previous session, but reloads an older one without the current document being reloaded.

In other words, even though I have closed MS with the document open, it re-boots without that document. This seems to be random, not happening all the time.

I have researched the other programs through Superuser (http://superuser.com/) a few times, so far without success.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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• Jan 11, 2013 - 18:37

I find it hard to understand due to language problems :-)
hangs not only MuseScore but the whole computer?
sometimes, on my pc, some slowdown due to the antivirus, you are sure to have no unwelcome guests?
I use Ccleaner to delete old files. It also has the function for registry maintenance.

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• Jan 11, 2013 - 18:39

FWIW I have recently ditched Chrome and gone back to Firefox because of video and audio glitching problems.

OK they happen in Firefox, after all Flash is an extremely badly written application - even from the word go it was a resource hog, and in fact I refused to have it on my computer when it first came out because of this, and apparently Firefox had to amend part of their code to cope with the fact that that Flash can hang for up to 10 seconds!

The Chrome implementation of Flash frankly sucks - why it should be any worse than Firefox I don't know, but that seems to be the case - stuttering audio, glitchy video - roll on universal HTML 5 :)

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• Jan 11, 2013 - 20:34

I ditched Chrome, Windows etc. a long time ago and moved to ubuntu, Firefox etc. and was very happy for a long time. After I upgraded ubuntu to version 12.04 (purely so I could run MS 1.2) I had crashes again and blamed the new OS for being "too fancy" along with many other people who blamed any new problem on the upgraded OS.

There can be more than one cause for computers crashing, though, and when I got around to actually checking everything I found a fault in a small region of memory on one RAM stick out of the four installed in my computer. Fortunately many linux-derived OS's allow you specify at boot-up time any areas of bad memory to be avoided and all is well again (until the next component fails, of course).

So, consider running some diagnostic programs like MemTest. See if you can find out whether your machine is running too hot (there's software to do this) and also check that your hard drive isn't failing. Warning - failing RAM is easily replaced and usually only messes up the file you are currently using but a failing hard drive is major data loss waiting to happen and a machine running too hot can mess up power supply, RA, hard drive, graphics etc.

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