Well I disabled my intel teamed NIC's to try and troubleshoot the source/cause of my audio popping and other odd sounds, and it froze the computer. I waited five minutes and restarted, with no apparently ill effects. I upgraded the NIC drivers from 18.6 to 18.7, and everything seems good now. I haven't seen any red spikes in the DPC latency checker, and only one yellow spike, I think.
The audio issues started a few days ago, from what I recall, and I'm not sure what caused it. It seems to get worse the longer the machine is on, but everything seems ok now. I'm not sure if windows update caused it, or the new version of avast (( 9.0 I think )), or something else.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Well at about 2:22 am on 10-12-2013 Balthazar froze while I was watching a youtube clip. I decided to wait, thinking it might be a short, 30 sec to 1 min freeze. Well I come back, and Balthazar is still frozen, with all the networking equipment off. Well it seems the battery backup I had the Router, switch, and modem attached to has completely died.
I was worried that there had been some short in the battery backup and that had somehow damaged Balthazar, since it bluescreened on start up. But that can happen from a BSOD restart too. But Balthazar seems to be fine now, and I have the networking equipment hooked up to other backups. It seems one of the top monitors was hooked up to the backup too, but it works upon switching plugs, so it seems everything ok.
What I want to know is why the backup died completely, and also caused Balthazar to freeze? I checked the wall plug and all, and the other backup connected to the same outlet is fine, so?
I was worried that there had been some short in the battery backup and that had somehow damaged Balthazar, since it bluescreened on start up. But that can happen from a BSOD restart too. But Balthazar seems to be fine now, and I have the networking equipment hooked up to other backups. It seems one of the top monitors was hooked up to the backup too, but it works upon switching plugs, so it seems everything ok.
What I want to know is why the backup died completely, and also caused Balthazar to freeze? I checked the wall plug and all, and the other backup connected to the same outlet is fine, so?
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Uptime 7 days 14 hours
Well I had Balthazar on for 7 days and 14 hours until last night. I had to restart because i couldn't open new programs, IE an image with irfanview, without closing another one. I've seen this problem for awhile now, and from what I read, something somewhere is causing a memory leak.
I also left my raid 5 storage array defrag all night, left, and came home to it saying a disk had dropped. I re-added it and it's checking everything. I hope one of the 3TB seagates hasn't died already. If it has, I wonder if I can eventually transition them all over to 4TB drives. This is on the Intel RST ports/chip whatever, the bottom four, so who knows, I'm reading up on it.
I also left my raid 5 storage array defrag all night, left, and came home to it saying a disk had dropped. I re-added it and it's checking everything. I hope one of the 3TB seagates hasn't died already. If it has, I wonder if I can eventually transition them all over to 4TB drives. This is on the Intel RST ports/chip whatever, the bottom four, so who knows, I'm reading up on it.
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