Bob,
In the first days of my Windoz 95 install on the 16meg of RAM, 486-25Mhz,
machine I HAD, the problem left with the addition of MORE RAM. As soon as I
upgraded to a larger HD and 64megs of RAM, poof, Windoz shuts down just
fine. Another problem I had was with printing. I would ALWAYS have a hard
time getting the system to understand that I DO have a printer attached to
LP1 and it DOES work. Now all that's gone. I guess the moral of the story is
"If you put enough RAM & HD space on a FASTER machine, the software works
better". Sort of like if you put enough money in your old car, you get a new
one? Anyway, just my $.02 on the subject. BTW, my old car is a P200 with
64Megs of RAM with a 6.8Gb HD, boy, am I moving or what?
Regards,
Scott Decker
AKA: PadMasterson
Mentor Design Supervisor, Portland
7245 NW Evergreen Pkwy., Suite 100, Hillsboro OR 97124
(503)531-2050 ext. 1820 FAX: (503)531-2051
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Landman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 8:43 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] System hang when shut down
Eileen,
No doubt about it - a Windows bug. We have four Compaqs here and
each
one shuts down differently. Mine always hung with Win95 and I would
have to turn off the power switch and then of course the dreaded NDD
would launch when I powered up again.
I got so sick of this (and other hangups and crashed with Outlook
Express 5.0) that I took a chance when Paulo said that his upgrade
to
Win98 worked to go ahead and do it. It installed without 1 problem
AND now the machine shuts down correctly.
I do see some new bizzare behavior:
1. the sleep mode is different. The screen dims and the Panasonic
EO900 19" monitor (when I jiggle the mouse) slowly brightens up
instead of snapping on.
2. all windows apps are a bit sluggish. when I type sometimes the
computer acts like it's forgotten what to do and then it catches up.
On the plus side = no more crashes in OE5.
You didn't say what OS you are running but I assume as you said you
upgraded from IE3 to IE4 you are in Win 95 so I would get Win98SE
(second edition) and see if that fixes this problem for you.
Best of luck,
Bob Landman
H&L
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Thornhill <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: January 28, 2000 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: [DC] System hang when shut down
: This is most certainly a microsoft bug take a look at the
microsoft
support web
: site.
: support.microsoft.com.
:
: Jim
:
: "Eileen Ong [R&D]" wrote:
:
: > Hi, sorry for posting a question not related to design. Just
wonder anybody
: > out there have ever encounter this problem.
: > I have just upgrade my IE 3.0 to IE 4.0. But every time when I
close all
: > application and shut down, the system will just display
: > "waiting for windows to shut down" and hang there. I further
upgrade IE 4 to
: > IE 5 but the problem still exist, this problem does not
: > happen when I'm using IE3. My system is Pentium 333 with 98M ram
and I'm
: > running Pads software for pcb design.
: > Thanks in advance for advice given.
: >
: > Best Regards,
: > EILEEN ONG (R&D Dept.)
: > Paradise Innovations (Asia) Pte Ltd
: > 25 Serangoon North Ave 5
: > 6th floor Uraco Building
: > Singapore 554914
: > Did: (65) 485-6690 (Office)
: > Fax: (65) 481-2611
: > Email : mailto:[log in to unmask]
: > Web: http://www.paradisemmp.com
:
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: Jim Thornhill
: University of Liverpool
: Department of Physics
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