aww go on, Scott, rub it in, rub it in... I have Compaq (yuck) 4508
Presarios and the darn things won't take more than 48MB of ram and
that was extra $$ but I put it in a while back and it did help. And
of course the 3.1G HD is about full (120MB left).
I know, I know, it's time to move on up to the Dodecapentium12 but
every day I wait
the things get more power (UGH UGH) for less bread and of course, I
then have to move ALL those programs over... I do have, thanks to
Ray's advice DriveCopy but well, you know, one tiny step at a
time.....
I also have seen all but one of the 4 4508s eat its COM port (on the
motherboard) which I then replaced with eight port COMTROL Rocketport
cards (ohh are THEY nice!). But lately I hear that USB external COM
port expanders are even cheaper now than those cards.
:-)
Behind The Curve Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Decker <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: January 28, 2000 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [DC] System hang when shut down
: 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.)
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: :
: : --
: : Jim Thornhill
: : University of Liverpool
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: : Oxford Street
: : Liverpool
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