dual-core laptop locks-up IEXPLORE.EXE

[John A Grandy]

Has anyone recently purchased a Intel® CoreT Duo Processor (T2400 -- but
don't think ghz is the issue) notebook and noticed that a high % of the time
(~ 25% +) IEXPLORE.EXE becomes locked-up on launch ?

Somewhat less frequently, IEXPLORE.EXE can lockup on redirects to urls of
other sites, or urls within the same site.

I've never noticed anywhere near this level of lockup of IEXPLORE.EXE on XP
Pro on other boxes, desktop or laptop ...

I have a Toshiba Satellite-P105-S921.

I flashed the most recent BIOS, but it was already on there. Any other
layers I could possibly update ? My gut feeling is Intel botched whatever
layer allocates processing to the multi cores.

All Windows Updates have been applied to this box.

Did Toshiba dump a dog on us ?

Outside shot : the high-end graphics chip is responsible : NVIDIA® GeForce®
Go 7900 GS

 

[DL]

Download this app http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292460/en-us , as
reccommended to me by MS tech.
Then run IE via it to determine what is causing the prob, likely to be a vid
driver problem.

 

[Guest]

Download this app http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292460/en-us , as
reccommended to me by MS tech.
Then run IE via it to determine what is causing the prob, likely to be a vid
driver problem.

It can be audio driver as well. Every time IE starts opening a new location,
it plays "begin navigation" sound.
You can change to "No Sounds" sound scheme to troubleshoot.

Regards,
--PA

 

[DL]

Sorry posted wrong link
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

 

[Eric]

I have recently set up 2 Intel® CoreT Duo Processor T2300 PCs with Windows
XP Pro. They were HP Pavillion, not Toshiba, but I don't think the dual
core processor is your problem. My users have not reported any problems so
far. These also came with a different graphics chip but I'd be surprised if
that's your problem.

 

[John A Grandy]

I'm pretty sure it's because this box has the latest Matrox laptop graphics
chip and the driver it shipped with is listed on the Matrox site as not
supporting this chip. There's a beta driver on the Matrox site that does
support this chip, but I'm more afraid of installing a beta graphics driver
than I am of browser lockup.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS with 256MB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory

ForceWare Release 90
Version: 91.28
Release Date: May 23, 2006
BETA Driver

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_32bit_91.28.html

 

[DL]

you say this box has latest Matrox chip, then post a link to Nvidea?
Did you try running the process through Dependency Walker to see what
'module' is causing the lockup?