[plug] [V.OT] What is a Windows Freeze?

[Dion]

This may be a hardware problem, or some kind of hang associated with a 
lack of memory.Windows doesn't handle a lack of ram to go around very 
well.  Windows also doesn't let go of devices very well without a reboot 
nor is the operating system built to enable it to kill the failled 
access to said hardware. 
Linux is however pretty good at this and if it was the device, linux 
would keep running and you would be able to kill the stalled process in 
most cases.  Try to see if you can repeat the circumstances that led to 
the crashed doze box.  You may find it is a loose cable....windows is 
really suseptible to crashing if cables lose contact even momentarily.

As for the second bit about midi, is your really expensive sound card 
supported under linux?? As for midi compositing software have a look at 
this place which seem to be into a lot of linux sound related stuff 
including midi.  
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html#midi

Best of luck.
D.

I am the LinuxAlien wrote:

> I was wondering what exactly happens when windows freezes. The times 
> when the screen remains them same, the mouse doesn't move and pressing 
> Num Lock doesn't turn on the little green light. Whats is the computer 
> doing? Is the OS still functioning but has such a high load it can't 
> even send a refresh signal to the mouse, keyboard, or video card? 
> What's is the CPU doing? Is it just sitting there idle like the hard 
> disk? When my Windows box froze today it had to do with my MIDI port 
> and windows trying to access the MIDI port it with its little MIDI 
> mapper and me using a really expensive sound card with built on 
> hardware synthesizer and playing back MIDI compositions through the 
> hardware synthesizer. My guess is that the hardware had a hiccup and 
> that caused every thing to crash. Obviously this could still happen in 
> Linux as it was hardware.
> So... What is the CPU doing, what is the OS doing?
> Thanks
> Tim
> p.s. Anybody know of a good MIDI composer program for Linux that 
> supports Lyrics?
>
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