Occasional momentary freeze

[chuckd]

Every once in awhile, we notice that part of the display freezes, then after about 10 seconds everything goes on and seems just fine. This happens about once or so per night, so it's not a huge problem, but anything out of the ordinary is bothersome.

Anyone ever seen this? I have four separate networks, but this happened to me last year with just a single network. I have only hard-wired 1602's, no ELL's. My 485 adapter does have the ferrite beads on it.

Think network termination (100 or 120 ohm) will help? I started in on this last week when I thought I had network noise problems, but turned out I had to reboot.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Tim Fischer]

Are you using a background sequence? I notice the display freezes up slightly every time my background sequence loops and resends X-10 commands. I made the freeze smaller by using an X-10 macro (instead of discrete X-10 commands) and having it loop every 5 minutes instead of every minute.

[chuckd]

No, my stuff is all plain musical sequences repeating over and over. The freezes last about 10 to 15 seconds, and it always freaks us out. But it always 'gets over it' too and continues on. The music does not stop, though, it's like part of the network simply stops for a bit.

[-klb-]

Have you ever watched for unusual HDD activity, or unusual activity in the task manager to see if some other process is causing it?

[Tim Fischer]

I noticed the letter "E" on our Merry Christmas sign stuck on when I drove in the other day, and I was first fearing a fried triac, but then it snapped out of it and started working fine again. Haven't noticed anything else unusual, other than the background issue I mentioned above...

I meant to go check the sequence to make sure it was a programming error (although it would be pretty hard for me to have made one letter stick on when all the others around it were doing chases, etc) but then I couldn't remember what sequence it was when I got inside

(ETA: In light of my recent posts on the "phone cable" thread, I should probably note that this is the only time I've ever noticed anything that might be considered a communication glitch with my system).

[jpbaily1]

Mine has that problem in my first arch which is controlled by my 1st 16ch controller, the other 2 arches do not hang.

It is not on the smae ch all the time either.

Strange... I explain it away to the neighbors who don't realy notice it anyway.



Let us know how you fix it.

[chadh]

I have this problem occasionally if I haven't restarted my computer in a few days.

[jpbaily1]

I'll try restarting the computer tonight & see if that helps.



Thanks.