On Mon January 30 2006 05:49, Pacific Dragon wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone here can help me get to the bottom of a
> particulary frustrating problem.
>
> Regulary when I'm using either the Open Office Writer or Calc
> applications, I'm often experiencing a situation when Open Office will
> all of a sudden seize up completely when I'm in the middle of typing
> something. This is happening with enough regularity to cause
> unspeakable frustration in my work.
>
> When this happens, All Open Office applications that are currently
> running will stop responding altogether, then a few seconds later, the
> Windows Task Bar will also stop responding and then any other open
> applications will also stop responding to mouse clicks creating the
> illusion that windows has completely frozen. From here, I can still go
> ALT + CTRL + DEL to bring up the task manager and when I proceed to kill
> all Open Office applications which are currently running, Windows will
> suddenly spring back into life along with any other applications that
> may have been opened at the time.
>
> I've tried updating video card drivers for my nVidia FX5200 Video card,
> applying all the critical patches from Windows Update, updated the JVM
> to the latest version and have even totally uninstalled Open office and
> reinstalled it fresh, but none of this has solved the problem. I'm
> really at a loss as to what to do next other than biting the bullet and
> going back to using MS Office.
>
> Current System specs.
>
> ---
> Windows 2000 SP4
> Intel P4 3.0GHz with HyperThreading.
> nVida FX5200 Videocard.
> 1GB DDR 400 RAM
I've seen problems before with Hyperthreading, not with OOo but with other
apps. Possibly disable hyperthreading and try it again.
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