What is a Practical Remedy to Computer Deadlocks
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(Apr 27, 2019, 00:02 am)RobertX Wrote: One of my computers has Windows 2000, and ends up happening is that when I load a game, namely Diablo II, the game would freeze.

This isn't a simple stop error (a.k.a. Blue Screen of Death), the computer would just stop operating; no mouse movement, no keyboard reaction, no Control, Alt, Delete. I had to put the power button hard to shut it off and put it back on. And then when I load Diablo II again, it does the same thing.

This is what they call "deadlock." Has anyone here experienced this?

When I Googled, the explanation I got was that it is the result of drivers or code coinciding with each other. I have had this problem before, but I don't know how I got rid of the problem. How did you guys do it? When I see the word "driver," I get the idea that updating my drivers seems to be a good one. What do you think?

Getting desperate.

Four Essential and Ample Requirements for Deadlock:
  • Mutual exclusion. The resources included must be unshareable; unless, the processes wouldn't be blocked from using the resource when required.
  • Hold and wait or partial allocation.
  • No pre-emption.
  • Resource waiting or orbicular wait.
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The above appears to be programmatic.
In the OP case it is a well tested software game.

And games are notorious are causing #5: overheating.
Especially when the machine runs 'normally' otherwise.
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