My ME is configured as ICS dialup HOST for a P2P'd XP machine. I don't
have any screensavers, hibernation, or suspend enabled. The systems
are configured to also share files. Most of the time, this arrangement
works extremely well. However, sometimes when I don't need to work on
the ME machine and just leave it ON inorder that the XP machine can
get access to the dialup, and walk away, after a little while the ME
machine does not respond to mouse movement or other controls. The only
thing that responds is ctl-alt-del to pop-up the tasklist, but then
the arrow keys don't respond to make a selection. MEANWHILE, the
networked XP machine is acccessing the dialup just fine! What could be
causing this apparent lockup on ME? A reboot with ctl-alt-del seems to
be my only option at that point. Fortunately the system doesn't
trigger Scandisk - so I know there is no real corruption in the data
files. Anyone familiar with this scenario? I have heard from another
WinME user about a similar situation, but their ME machine was not
networked; however, they discovered that the problem was "DMA -
enabled" for the CD-R/RW device.