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

[Lawrence Abbott]

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?
>
> LinuxAlien
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For a Linux midi composer have a look at Muse.  
http://muse.seh.de/screenshots.php  or Rosegarden   
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/ , both of these have lyrics 
capabilities.  

Lawrie