133829 - Chrome corruption then Windows locks up

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[paxunix]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020326
BuildID:    2002032603

After some variable amount of time browsing the chrome at the top of the window
gets completely corrupted, the mouse cursor is corrupted, and Windows locks up
completely requiring a reboot.  This doesn't appear related to the amount of
time using the browser or any particular site.  I am using tabbed browsing.  The
only difference that I can think of that may be contributing is that I recently
installed the Java 1.4 SDK and copied the appropriate plugin DLLs into the
mozilla bin directory.  Note that in all cases this corruption has occurred, the
Java plugin had not been started in that session, nor was I currently at a page
that would start it up.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

I will be removing the Java plugin DLLs and then restarting to see if I ever
encounter the problem.  Also seen using Moz build 2002032003.    Never seen
prior to installing Java 1.4.

Comment 1

[paxunix]

Removed the Java1.4 DLLs from the plugins dir and had this happen 4 times since
then.  Twice upon clicking "No" on the initial "choose mozilla as your default
browser" before it had rendered my home page.  When it happens, it seems it
happens immediately before the page content is drawn.

Comment 2

[paxunix]

This behavior disappeared when I changed my display properties to no longer
allow the monitor to go into sleep mode after n minutes.  To verify, I set the
sleep mode delay to 10 minutes, waited until the monitor shut off, then started
up Mozilla.  Immediately upon loading my home page, the corruption occurred,
Windows locked up and I had to reset the machine.  I have since redisabled the
powersaving features and have been browsing without problems for the last 3 days.

Looks like it might be a video driver problem and I think this bug can be closed.

Comment 3

[paxunix]

As above--looks like a video driver issue.  Marking as invalid.