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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / April 2006What could be causing VPC to freeze up regularly?
(I'm running Win2000 in VPC6 on a 17" G4 iMac.) THE PROBLEM: When I leave VPC open (on the Mac) for about twenty minutes, VPC freezes up - i.e. the VPC program in the Mac does not respond to mouse clicks, or anything I've tried - other than "Force Quit". After "Force Quit"ing, I then re-launch VPC, which then reboots the virtual machine. Of course that is highly inconvenient and time consuming. BACKGROUND: The problem started immediately after I (naively) installed the software for a new all-in-one (a-i-o) printer, model HP PSC 1410, into my virtual machine. Results included VPC "speeds" that were something like watching grass grow. Therefore, I uninstalled the HP software. (By the way, it took my use of the "Windows Installer Cleanup Utility" to remove one of the four HP programs, i.e. "HP Image Zone Express". That program would not be budged by "Add/Remove Programs".) OTHER BACKGROUND: - STATEMENT FROM HP TECHNICAL SUPPORT REGARDING THIS PROBLEM Here, between the quotation marks, is the last communication I had from HP Technical Support on this issue: "Thank you for contacting HP Total Care. Your inquiry about HP programs/software/drivers on virtual PC.The software may work, however HP does not support it. The following is HP Printers - Mac OS: Support Statement for Microsoft's Virtual PC Software Currently HP does not offer any support for Microsoft's Virtual PC software that is installed on a Macintosh. If a customer desires to set up their peripheral using Virtual PC and runs into any problem installing, configuring or communicating it is critical to let the customer know to call Microsoft. All of our products are tested to work on a Native operating system, not one running on top of another such as Virtual PC or OS 9 Classic. In these instances there are too many variables that may inhibit the required results and therefore may lead to undesirable customer experience. I hope this answers your questions satisfactorily. If you need further assistance, do not hesitate to reply do this email and we can assist you." During that 20 minutes, does the Mac OS go to sleep mode? Try disabling that feature and see if the problem stops. Thank you, Paul. As you suggested, I disabled "sleep" for the computer (not for the display) in the "Energy Saver" settings in "System Preferences". Result: VPC did not freeze up overnight, and is running apparently normally this morning! Is there a way to get back to using the Energy Saver settings without having VPC freeze up? By the way, where did you read my posting? (I don't see my posting it in the microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc newsgroup, which is where I thought I posted it on about Tuesday this week.) > During that 20 minutes, does the Mac OS go to sleep mode? Try disabling > that feature and see if the problem stops. No Petula, there is no way that I know of to keep using Energy Saver while VPC is running. It will freeze up every time. Maybe when the next Mac OS update comes out? Your posting was/is in the microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc newsgroup Thank you, Paul. > No Petula, there is no way that I know of to keep using Energy Saver > while VPC is running. It will freeze up every time. Maybe when the next > Mac OS update comes out? > > Your posting was/is in the microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc newsgroup |
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