139404 - win2000 hangs with a uniform colored screen, when system and navigator are open for a night or longer, due normal browsing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Torsten Zirzlaff]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

When the system is powered longer as a day and the navigator is also open, then
navigator render win2000 useless. The screen turns white or an uniform color or
a striped color, depending on the colors used n the last browsed URL. The system
seems to accessable from remote.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
This is long time bug.

1. let your system and Navaigator active over the whole day and night.
2. Start browsing after the night in the morning.

Actual Results:  1. Usual behaviour. Remote access, etc. works fine
2. After a while ~15min-1hour the system locks up as described above.

Expected Results:  normal behaviour or just dying of the navigator and not of
the whole system.

Similiar behaviour was encountered with a Netscape build 6.2. There behaviour
stated much faster, but nevertheless also unexpected.

Comment 1

[Wesha]

This looks more like hardware problem. Most common roots of such a behaviur are:
a) semi-dead RAM chip, and b) lack of CPU cooling. Please run RAM heavy-load
tests, and get sure your CPU cooler is pressed against CPU firmly enough, the
fan is working fine, and there's no huge pile of dust inside the heatsink.

Comment 2

[Lee]

Display driver problem. ?
Have you tried updating your display driver.
Which display card do you have ?

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

Resolving as we have not heard back from reporter in several weeks.