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Gary

Jan 1, 1970
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I need to automatically detect when the computer running Windows freezes and
reset it. I've found one product called watchdog, a pci card that does just
that.

Just wondering if anyone has experience with this product or can recommend
another.

Thanks,

Gary
 
I need to automatically detect when the computer running Windows freezes and
reset it. I've found one product called watchdog, a pci card that does just
that.

Just wondering if anyone has experience with this product or can recommend
another.

Thanks,

Gary
I use watchdog cards quite a lot in industrial computers. The only
problem is that most watchdogs do need software that is written in to
an application.

What happens is that the software must turn on the watchdog.
If the watchdog isn't told every so often that the software is
running, BY the software, it reboots the computer.

Problem is, you're going to need to write your own program to turn on
the watchdog and tell it (several times a second) "I'm alive, don't
reboot!"
 
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UncleWobbly

Jan 1, 1970
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you could set sunnik up where by you have a bit of hardware attached to the
serial/parallel port and the reset signal on the PC, you need to write some
code that wagg;es one of the pins on that port and resets a timer - say
every 5 minutes... if the timer doesn't do it's thing, the hardware resets
the machine

this wouldn't be too involved.
 
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Spudley

Jan 1, 1970
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Fix the computer Hardware or chuck the OS software/application out
that causes it to freeze.
 
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