HS Becoming un responsive

[jjohanneson]

i am having a problem, that sometime in the morning hours HS becomes unresponsive, I exit HS and my system re-boots by itself.

I turned off all other applications that have a scheduled events. Any ideas?

[tomv]

You can probably count on your auto-update software. Occasionally, MS send a patch that requirs a re-boot, and after it is loaded (usually at 3Am unless you set it differently). Then it can't re-book since HS will not shut down, so when you stop it, bingo, reboot and restart.

Tom

[jjohanneson]

wow, thanks for the quick reply.

It seems to be happening just about every night. I have the weather plugin, and the MLHS plugin. Both seem to have latest updates.

I have a P4 3.2, 2 gb memory, z wave devices, XP SP1, TT 2.01, Rivers Media center and....

other thoughts?

[Rupp]

Have you scanned for adware lately? This will bring the fastest computer to it's knees.

[jjohanneson]

I hope i don't have that crap on my system. I have safeguards in place but.... for every virus there seems to magically have a vaccine...

Do you have a favorite

[cerjzc]

I use these three regularly:

AdAware:

AdAware SE

Spybot:

SpyBot 1.3

Bazooka:

Bazooka

The first 2 will remove the spyware automatically, but Bazooka requires you to edit the registry or remove files from the system. The reason I use it is because it often finds some that that others do not.

Make sure you keep the definitions updated and I would run them a couple times a week depending on how much you browse the net.

Jeff

[Bryan Nystrom]

When this happens, also try unplugging your X10 computer controler. I find that at time mine gets very "confused" and HS trying to talk to it takes a LONG time. Resetting it by unplugging it usually unclogs things. It probably wouldn't happen if I had the USB model instead of the old serial one.

[jjohanneson]

I tried the spyware.. same problem
I will try resetting controller.

thanks!

[jjohanneson]

Well so far so good.

Thanks for the adware tips.,

But I think it was a problem with my USB z wave controller.... I had plugged into a 2.0 hub... now plugged in directly to my 2.0 MB.. Seems to work faster which goes on the guise of resonse time... even though it is a powered hub.

Thanks!

[jjohanneson]

ok, narrowed it down. either it was my virus software causing the crash or a virus. Updated my software and has not crashed yet

Happy days are here again

[jjohanneson]

So I thought... Same problem.

HS says to the effect "component not responding, cancel or switch to.."

I switch to and crash hard goes windows XP Pro SP1.

HELP!!! Is something goofy with my Z WAVE?

[Rupp]

If the OS is crashing then I would suspect a driver conflict. This is the case in 9 out of 10 OS crashes. Have you tried updating the USB card drivers? I had a problem about 2 years ago where the system sould just freeze. I bought a new add on usb card and the problem was solved.